Tag: Educational Finance: Page 108

Latinx

Lumina Foundation Pushes for Higher Degree Attainment

The Lumina Foundation for Education’s “A Stronger Nation” report reveals the U.S. is not on track to having 60 percent of Americans hold degrees by the year 2025.

June 17, 2013

Students

UNCF Launches New Campaign to Invest in African-American Students

The college fund has updated its memorable tagline to stress the value of African-American education.

June 16, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alcorn State Celebrates Medgar Evers’ Civil Rights Legacy

The thriving land-grant institution in rural Mississippi hosted the last leg of celebrations in the state honoring Evers 50 years after his assassination.

June 13, 2013

Students

Arkansas Plans to Award More 2-Year Degrees

Arkansas education officials announced a plan Wednesday to award associate degrees to qualifying students who transferred from community colleges to universities but never got their diplomas.

June 12, 2013

Home

Diverse Conversations: The Failure of Higher Education

Growing up, many Americans are told that education is the doorway to happiness and a way to break the cycle of poverty and anti-intellectualism that pervades the country. Is it true?

June 11, 2013

Students

Even for Drop-outs, College Pays

It sounds like the worst of all worlds borrowing money for college, then dropping out and facing the debt without a degree.

June 10, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Move to Quash Journalism Center Bashed

A conservative radio talk show host and a moderate Republican state senator on Thursday both bashed a move to quash an investigative journalism center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

June 6, 2013

MSIs

Senate Defeats Democratic, Republican Student Loan Plans

Interest rates on new student loans are likely headed higher after senators failed Thursday to advance proposals to keep them from doubling July 1.

June 6, 2013

Community Colleges

Policy Group Calls for Renewed Investment in New Jersey Higher Education

The New Jersey Policy Perspective organization has called on state leaders to commit new investment to New Jersey higher education to boost the Garden State’s economic competitiveness.

June 5, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Hutchison: Governments Should Invest in Higher Education

Former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison called for more funding for research universities on Tuesday amid a debate over whether higher education budgets should be cut.

June 4, 2013

African-American

St. Paul’s College Officials Say Closure ‘Temporary’

School will continue to implement a closure plan while it seeks another “strategic opportunity.”

June 3, 2013

Students

MOOCs Morphing Into a Path for College Preparation

The use of Massive Open Online Courses for high school dual enrollment programs and general access to college-level material is seen as potentially huge educational benefit.

June 2, 2013