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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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Leadership & Policy

University of Arizona President Calls for Independent Probe of Medical Schools

TUCSON, Ariz. ― The president of the University of Arizona has called for an independent investigation into allegations of misuse of public funds by its two medical schools. The Arizona Daily Star reports that President Ann Weaver Hart released a statement on Monday calling for the independent third-party investigation with no university or Arizona Board […]

August 18, 2016

Montana College Expels Students 4 Years after Saudis Cheated

BUTTE, Mont. ― Fifteen summer school students have been expelled for cheating at Montana Tech, the same college that dismissed several Saudi students and revoked the degrees of others after discovering a former employee altered their transcripts four years ago. Doug Abbott, vice chancellor for academic affairs, declined to release any other information about the […]

August 18, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Missouri Attorney General Backs Professor in Lawsuit

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Board of Curators in support of a university law professor’s challenge to the campus firearms ban. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boone County, Andrew Hirth, deputy general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster, wrote that the campus […]

August 18, 2016

Senior Lecturer: Milwaukee Uprising Illustrates Need for Socialism

Senior lecturer Ahmed Mbalia says the violence that unfolded in Milwaukee in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Sylville K. Smith is symptomatic of a failed capitalistic system that needs to be replaced by socialism.

August 18, 2016

Colleges Pitching in as Floods, Fires Wreak Havoc

The massive floods and forest fires that have disrupted thousands of households in the South and Southern California have spurred colleges in the areas to help institution employees, neighbors and students weather the troubles.

August 18, 2016

‘A Different World’ Still Pulls Fans into HBCU Experience

If Dr. Bill Cosby’s greatest contribution to the Black community was his creation of The Cosby Show, then the spin-off to the popular 1980s television sitcom about a fictitious HBCU in Virginia almost certainly comes in close behind.

August 18, 2016

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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