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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton |Dan Currell |Grayson Logue
Canada Is an Ally, Not an Enemy Donald Trump seems surprised by the ferocity of the Canadian response to his attempts to strong-arm the country with his imbecilic bullying and threats to annex it. I am not. Canadian pride may sometimes take the form of toxic anti-Americanism, but there is no doubting the resolve or the patriotism of our neighbors to the north.
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1 month ago | 
insidehighered.com | Dan Currell
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Just_Super/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Trump administration’s anti-DEI playlist has been booming out onto the quad since Inauguration Day. Executive orders denounced “dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences,” and the Department of Justice promised to investigate “illegal DEI” activities.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Dan Currell |Greg Lukianoff |Jessica Gavora |John Mccormack
Shuttering the department would likely require congressional action, but efforts to curb its activities have already begun. Published February 18, 2025 Judging from the rhetoric emanating from Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Education appears to be living on borrowed time. President Donald Trump has said that he wants to scale it down, then work with Congress to abolish it.
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2 months ago | 
startribune.com | Dan Currell
Trump has talked about closing the U.S. Department of Education. Here’s what that could mean for school districts and colleges in the state. February 12, 2025 at 7:00PMThe Department of Education headquarters in Washington. (ROD LAMKEY JR./The New York Times)Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Dan Currell |Ken Harris
Bottom line: How much do families need to save? Let’s say a family thinks college will cost $29,000 a year, or $116,000 over four years, including room and board. Saving $288 a month from when the child is born will likely cover college. Waiting to save until the child is 10 years old more than doubles the monthly savings number to $678. The key is for the money to grow over time, so start early if you can.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Robert VerBruggen |Matthew Kuchem |Dan Currell |Jonathan Marks
New data shows how the end of affirmative action affected campus demographics. Published September 24, 2024 Last year, in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard, the Supreme Court effectively banned the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Since then, it’s been unclear what the fallout would be. Would black and Hispanic enrollment at the nation’s most selective colleges fall dramatically?
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Dan Currell |Curtis Craig
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Next month, some students who were wait-listed by Ivy League schools this year will start classes instead at one of Minnesota's colleges. In effect, they earned their place at the top, but didn't earn quite enough luck to get in.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Dan Currell |Jonathan Marks |Robert VerBruggen |Sarah Isgur
A botched software rollout has created massive problems for colleges and prospective students, but lots more problems linger. Published June 21, 2024 Even when they’re running well, big systems can produce a lot of errors. Seventeen million people fill out the U.S. Department of Education’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, every year. As its name suggests, this form provides students with need-based government grants and loans for college.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Dan Currell |Jonathan Marks |Jeffrey Bilbro |Robert VerBruggen
Few people know what the FAFSA actually does, yet some states have gone so far as to make completing the form a high school graduation requirement, since it correlates with going to college. The official government line is that there are no income limits for student aid, but only about one-third of students qualify for the need-based aid FAFSA delivers. So should you fill out the FAFSA? First off, if you want to take out a federal student loan, you need to fill out the FAFSA.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
nationalaffairs.com | Howe Whitman III |Daniel Wiser |Dan Currell
April 28, 2024 The emergence of generative artificial intelligence in the last few years has drawn a growing chorus of advocates offering proposals for how to regulate this new technology. Many of them want to treat AI as an entirely new kind of challenge that calls for entirely new regulatory tools. But starting from scratch is unlikely to lead us to effective regulation.
