Effective this January, Robert Kelly will be stepping down as President of UND. The announcement was made after the results of a staff survey revealed a work atmosphere that was less than favorable.
Read & Share sourced from: Say Anything Blog.comNPR has a story today about a few trends that are taking place in education. Nationally and in North Dakota the picture looks good; we’re at all-time-highest graduation rates! But that’s just the appearance at first blush. NPR enlisted 14 reporters to look deeper into the issue, and what they found reveals a more complicated
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Tracey Lawson, previously the principal at Longfellow Elementary, has been hired as Minot Public School’s Assistant Superintendent for elementary education. Minot Daily has the story along with other business of the school board. This article requires a Google search redirect to bypass the MDN paywall.
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UND Was awarded $750,000 over three years to build a research station focused on NASA’s work in Earth science, aeronautics, and deep space exploration. The funds are made available through NASA’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, which awards Research Infrastructure Development (RID) grants every three to five years to jurisdictions to bolster
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It’s not just the music of our grandfathers; the fiddle tradition is alive and well at the International music camp with both ongoing instruction and foot-stomping competitions. KX News has the story.
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More and more, American Universities are setting up shop in foreign countries. What’s behind this trend? Jason E. Lane writing for Quartz takes a closer look at the cultural phenomenon.
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Information uncovered through an Attorney General opinion reveals just how good a job not working for the NDSU foundation really is. In the end, a now former employee was fired for cause and paid a 4-month $104,000 severance package.
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The NDSU Development Foundation is having trouble staying on the right side of the law when it comes to making their business open and available to the public.
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A significant renovation is getting underway in NDSU’s library and will be ongoing for the next five months. The renovation will include compliance changes for the Americans with Disabilities Act and improve library operations. The last renovation was in 1980.
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The month of May was 'Random Act of Kindness' month at Dakota Elementary, and during the last week of school students put what they learned back into the world. This is a great story from Minot Air Force Base.
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In Canada, Native Americans are referred to as ‘First Nations’, and the challenges within these communities are the same. In 2010, Canada made a point of improving reading and writing skills among First Nations with a new program and the results are impressive.
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The first days of college can be overwhelming ones, and Minot State University is working to ease the transition with summer orientation programs designed for new students. KMOT has the story.
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The study indicates that kids who are simply exposed to another language in their daily lives are better at understanding people, and joins a growing body of evidence that suggests speakers of multiple languages have advantages in work and life.
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It seems our state’s public universities have become bastions of employment for those who have nothing to do with education. If you’re wondering why tuition keeps rising at the same time as state appropriations, here’s your reason.
Read & Share sourced from: Dickinson PressIt turns out developing things like grit, a growth mindset, soft skills, emotional skills, and social skills as big a role in life success as academic learning, but those in education are struggling with how to define the concepts.
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There’s a growing portion of the population who spent some time at college, but didn’t get the degree. In Rhode Island, a program called College Unbound has set out to bring these former students back into the fold and help them complete their degrees.
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