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Michigan Tech Recognized as Veteran Friendly

HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech is the gold standard in many areas of academics. Now they are also getting recognized for helping veterans. Michigan Tech is now a gold-level Veteran-Friendly school, the recognition coming from the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency. Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency Director James Redford said, “There are seven standards that we measure against […]

August 19, 2016

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DOE Looks to Lobbyists for Accountability

Even as the Department of Education works to shut down sketchy for-profit colleges and chastises the organizations responsible for determining if a school should receive federal dollars, they want to let even more for-profits into the system. In their new experiment, the Department wants to prove that new “Quality Assurance Entities” (QAEs) can monitor schools […]

August 19, 2016

Initiative to Boost Low-Income Students’ Access to Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will allow students to apply for federal aid to enroll in “non-traditional” training programs that partner with colleges and universities, as part of a broader effort to increase their ability to enroll in higher education. The department invited eight institutions of higher education to participate in […]

August 19, 2016

Top Colleges Sit on Their Money

A new report from the Education Trust concludes that our top colleges are being too stingy. Specifically, it examines private nonprofit institutions with endowments above $500 million and finds that many of them are underspending endowment assets, plowing their returns back into the money bin rather than using them to defray educational expenses for students. […]

August 19, 2016

Colleges Partner with Online Providers

Eight colleges will team up with companies that run computer coding boot camps or online courses for an experiment that lets students pay for nontraditional training programs with federal grants and loans, the Education Department said Tuesday. Short-term courses, such as coding boot camps, have become a popular model for acquiring skills and credentials without […]

August 19, 2016

Programs Help Veterans in Transition

Military veterans often face significant challenges in re-acclimating to ‘normal’ life in the United States. These challenges may be rooted in mental, emotional and psychological issues resulting from the trauma and stresses of war. Physical injuries can be seen, but internal struggles (what Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton calls “invisible wounds”) frequently remain […]

August 19, 2016

Which Schools Produce Successful Grads? Search for College Data

Earning a college degree is supposed to be the golden ticket to better jobs and higher wages, but a new report reveals that many public universities are failing to make good on their promises to students and taxpayers. College enrollment increased 20 percent from 2005 to 2010, the biggest growth since the 1970s. Now, more […]

August 19, 2016

Half of Hispanic Students Rely on Pell Grants

Proposed education appropriations legislation from the Republican-controlled U.S. House would cut Pell Grant funding in fiscal 2017 by $1.3 billion to $21.1 billion. Despite the overall funding cut, Pell Grant maximum amounts are due to rise in the 2016-2017 award year to $5,815 from $5,775 in the 2015-2016 award year. Pell Grants, started by Congress […]

August 19, 2016

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Grants Improve College Readiness for Adults

The U.S. Department of Education today announced the award of $48 million in grants to 143 colleges and organizations in 42 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico under the Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) program – all aimed at promoting college readiness for more than 196,000 adults. The grants will provide readily accessible college […]

August 19, 2016

Feds Try Aid for Unorthodox College Programs

BOSTON—In an experiment backed by the federal government, Northeastern University and General Electric are offering a new manufacturing degree program to be taught primarily at the company’s work sites. Students will take online courses through the university, undergo training at a GE plant and earn a bachelor’s degree within three years. The biggest twist: For […]

August 19, 2016

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Let Private Colleges Augment Federal Aid

Hillary Clinton recently unveiled her New College Compact. The goal is college affordability by ensuring free tuition at four-year public colleges for every student from families earning $85,000 a year or less. The family income cap would rise to $125,000 by the year 2021. The compact would primarily be funded by the federal government through […]

August 18, 2016

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Skills Program Aids Transitioning Military

The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) and Southside Virginia Community College are offering a free course to train veterans or transitioning military members as computer numeric controlled machinists. “This is a huge opportunity worthy of consideration,” Bruce Sobczak, director of workforce development at CCAM, a Prince George County-based research consortium between industry and university […]

August 18, 2016

PAVE Program Assists Veterans in Campus

The University of Michigan Health System and the Student Veterans of America have developed a peer-to-peer program to assist veterans with campus support. The Peer Advisors for Veteran Education (PAVE) program was developed in Michigan and has been fully implemented at 12 schools across the country. This fall 30 more schools nationwide will be joining […]

August 18, 2016

States Offer Veterans Benefits

Everyone knows about the federal benefits available to veterans, but did you know many states also offer great benefits to their veterans? State benefits range from free college and employment resources to free hunting and fishing licenses. Most states also offer tax breaks for their veterans and specialized license plates, some states even provide their […]

August 18, 2016

For-Profit College Will Open Seminary

The country’s best-known Christian for-profit college, Grand Canyon University (GCU), has announced that it will open an independent, non-denominational, for-profit theological seminary this fall. The announcement came just before the Department of Education reported last month that the number of for-profit colleges fell 5 percent and enrollment dropped about 10 percent in just a year. […]

August 18, 2016

Ubiquity U. Seeks New Ground in For-Profit Education

If higher education as a business model is collapsing under the weight of weakening public support, fewer students seeking the product and rising costs for workforce and capital maintenance, one institution believes it has the answer to saving students time, money and the industry at large. Ubiquity University officials say that the time has come […]

August 18, 2016

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Adjunct Bill Moves Forward in California

Adjunct advocates are campaigning for a California bill that would provide some job security to nonunionized adjunct instructors at community colleges. The proposed legislation, known as AB 1690, recently passed the California Senate Appropriations Committee. It now moves on to the general California State Senate, as well as the State Assembly. Provisions included in the […]

August 18, 2016

SECOME Accepting Applications For Scholarships.

The Southeastern Council on Military Education will be awarding three (3) scholarships to qualifying individuals at the annual SECOME Conference. Winners will be notified by email by 9 September 2016. $500-$1000 Scholarships are available to: An Active Duty, Drilling Reservist, or National Guard Member assigned to a military installation/resides in Georgia, North Carolina, or South […]

August 18, 2016