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Students

Southern University Collecting Yearbook Fees, But No Book Produced

A new audit says Southern University has been collecting student fees for a yearbook that hasn’t been produced for five years.

July 8, 2013

Students

New Help for First-Generation Students at Kansas State

A national program that aims to help first-generation college students stay in school is coming to Kansas State University.

July 8, 2013

Faculty & Staff

San Francisco City College to Lose Accreditation

The agency that certifies two-year colleges in the western USA told City College of San Francisco that the school will lose its accreditation a year from now.

July 7, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Va. University, College Leaders Defend Va. Tech’s Steger

Virginia’s public university and community college presidents argue in a state Supreme Court filing that Virginia Tech’s president should have immunity from any civil action stemming from the 2007 massacre on his Blacksburg campus.

July 2, 2013

Students

William Gray, Former Congressman and UNCF President, Dies

Gray, an ex-U.S. Rep, first Black Majority Whip, and former president of the United Negro College Fund passed away Monday at the age of 71.

July 2, 2013

Students

How the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Will Affect You

Total student loan debt in the USA now hovers above $1 trillion, exceeding total credit card debt for the first time — and the interest rate doubled today.

July 1, 2013

Latinx

Study: 55M New Job Openings by 2020

However, the forecast also suggests the economy will fall short 5 million workers with the postsecondary degrees those jobs require.

June 26, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Moody’s Revises NCAA Credit Outlook to Negative

The NCAA’s credit outlook has been revised to negative by ratings agency Moody’s as the governing body of college sports deals with an anti-trust lawsuit about the use of athletes’ images and likenesses.

June 25, 2013

Students

Report Urges Better Preparation, More Active Recruitment of Community College Leaders

National community college leaders joined Aspen Institute and the Achieving the Dream organization officials to urge major improvements in how two-year college presidents are recruited, prepared, hired and evaluated.

June 24, 2013

Home

Low Graduation Rates Plague Ivy Tech System

Indiana’s community college system, already grappling with a $68 million deficit, is facing scrutiny over its graduation rates as it works to shore up its role as the linchpin needed to close the state’s skilled-worker gap.

June 23, 2013

Students

Special Report: Top 100 Associate Degree Producers

Our 2013 List of Top 100 Associate Degree Producers

June 21, 2013

MSIs

Lawmakers Attempt to Save Student Loan Deal

A handful of senators struggled Thursday to hold together a bipartisan deal to keep student loan rates from doubling on July 1 while their colleagues traded political barbs with little more than a week to go before the deadline.

June 20, 2013