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How Congress sees Minnesota’s student debt
MN: Still confident it’ll all pay off. (JEC) This student-debt study just came out this morning from the U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee, of which Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar...
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Are debt levels among MnSCU, UMN and private-college students about the same?
Not so far apart (MPCC) Well, this is surprising. Just got this from the Minnesota Private College Council earlier this week. Despite all the talk about tuition and financial aid, the debt levels of...
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MnSCU: Measured correctly, our grads have the least debt
The data is kinda like this, too. (Tax Credits via Flickr) The comment-area debate over this table of debt levels of students at Minnesota’s public and private colleges — put out by the Minnesota...
View ArticleThe feeling you get when comparing info on college price and debt
You may not be feeling this way about all the student debt and tuition data floating around — as shown by posts such as this, this and this — but the average Minnesotan probably is. I’m hoping to talk...
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USA Today: Minnesota student debt is “out of control”
A dubious distinction (jzimbabwe via Flickr) I’ve already covered Minnesota’s status as a high-debt state for students, but just FYI USA Today has it in its list of eight states where student debt is...
View ArticleHow to scare humanities majors
Remember “Scared Straight,” that late-1970s documentary in which prison inmates warned juvenile delinquents against turning to a life of crime? Watch Buzzfeed’s take for the college crowd: “Scared...
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U’s response to national report on admin pay
We’re not unequal (emoeby via Flickr) Having been named among the “Top 5 Most Unequal Public Universities” by the Institute for Policy Studies on Sunday, the University of Minnesota says the...
View ArticleInstitute pulls admin-pay report over AFT data
A spokesman for the University of Minnesota — which took issue with its ranking in the Institute for Policy Studies’s report on administrative pay — pointed out this announcement this morning: IPS...
View ArticleMN bachelor’s grads carrying a little less debt
Minnesota college students graduated last year with slightly less debt than students did the year before, but a state expert says it’s unclear what caused it and whether it’s just a blip. The state...
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