Archive of: Cum Laude

	Title	Issue
	Special Challenges The Duluth public schools’ approach to educating students with differing abilities is inclusive, broad and creative. Tony Bennett	February 2013
	Accountability in K-12 Now that Duluth is starting to deal very publicly with some of the issues that Chicago picketed over (expanding class sizes being a key headline-grabber), and now that Minnesota has been granted a waiver from aspects of No Child Left Behind, how is the issue of accountability going to play out in the local area? Tony Bennett	January 2013
	BlueStone Commons The project, “BlueStone Commons,” aims to bring retail space and apartment housing together in a manner that is similar to the Dinkytown area of Minneapolis. Tony Bennett	November 2012
	Religion on Campus Matters of the spirit are one of the main things that colleges are prepared to accommodate. Tony Bennett	September 2012
	Fighting the Freshman Fifteen In the era of five-dollar large pizzas bursting with calories, colleges in the Duluth~Superior area are well aware that new students are more in danger than ever of making poor choices when it comes to food, and they’ve got ideas on how to fight the war against the annual evil commonly referred to as the “Freshman Fifteen.” Tony Bennett	August 2012
	Attracting Academics to Duluth~Superior Even though Duluth is oft-referred to as a “college town,” it’s not like our local institutions of higher learning just have to put up a quick ad on www.indeed.com and wait for applications from potential professors to come rolling in. Tony Bennett	July 2012
	LSC Nursing/Health And Science Center Already, the verdict on Lake Superior College’s new $12.1 million, 37,000-square-foot Health and Science Building is in: it’s a hit. Tony Bennett	May 2012
	Alternative Spring Break The classic stereotype of the college student on spring break is a kid, out on his or her own for probably the first time, perhaps in Jamaica or a similar resort paradise that passes for “exotic”, surrounded by bad influences (otherwise known as “friends”), drunk on whatever is cheap, plentiful, and potent, and making horrible decisions that will become the stuff of future embarrassing nicknames. Tony Bennett	April 2012
	Online Education In the last decade or so, the degree-seeking student has been afforded the opportunity to sculpt a new kind of personalized class schedule, one that can easily be up to 100 percent virtual. Tony Bennett	March 2012
	The New Graduate School Is a bachelor’s degree enough, today What kind of graduate programs do our local schools offer? Tony Bennett	November 2011