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Focus Intensifies on Falloff of Students En Route to College

“Summer melt” is said to impact between 10 and 20 percent of all “college-intending” students throughout the United States. One estimate puts the number of students who “melt away” during the summer at 200,000 students per year.

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Powerball Win Helps Marilyn Fields Spread Her Love for Shaw University

Good fortune allows devoted alumna and employee the opportunity to fully capitalize a scholarship she had started earlier this year.

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Billions of GI Bill Funds Going to For-Profit Schools

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have flocked to for-profit colleges, including a troubled chain that is closing or selling its campuses amid a series of federal and state investigations.

Becoming Intentional About College Retention

We cannot understand retention without grasping the history, mission, purpose, program offerings, and financing at an institution.

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Report: Millions with College Credit Identified as Potential Graduates

An estimated 4 million Americans have completed at least two years of college and they represent a pool of potential students with whom colleges and universities could reconnect, a new national report says.

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UW Bothell Chancellor Sees Abundance of Opportunity for Underserved on His Campus

Bjong Wolf Yeigh says that about half of the student body is made up of first-generation college attendees and that about 43 percent of the student body are students of color.

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University of California Exercising a Form of Economic Affirmative Action?

System gouging the out-of-staters to shore up revenues.

Governance Controversy Escalating at Alabama State University

The president’s perks and expenditures questioned amid forced shakeup of the university’s board of trustees and credit rating concerns.

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Hine Awarded 2013 National Humanities Medal at White House

Dr. Darlene Clark Hine, a pioneering scholar in the field of African American women’s history, was among a group of individuals honored Monday at the White House.

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University of North Carolina Inviting Ex-Athletes Back to Complete Degrees

North Carolina is inviting former scholarship athletes who left before completing coursework to return and earn their degrees.

Awarded a Pell Grant? Better Double-Check

Potentially tens of thousands of students awarded a Pell Grant or other need-based federal aid for the coming school year could find it taken away because of a mistake in filling out the form.

Diverse Conversations: Is Higher Education Worth It?

An expert says at some point it will become too expensive to offer luxurious amenities and excellent teachers at a cost that a middle-class American can afford.

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