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Students

Dollar General Latest Business Offering Tuition Reimbursement

As part of a growing trend among businesses seeking to attract and retain dedicated talent, Dollar General announced that employees will be eligible for a tuition reimbursement program covering all or much of the cost of attending an online degree program at Bellevue University.

September 28, 2017

Sports

Con Man Steals Spotlight as Informant in College Hoops Probe

NEW YORK — A con man named Louis Martin “Marty” Blazer III may have failed in his scheme to make low-budget movies with money swiped from pro athletes, but he has now succeeded in stealing part of the spotlight in a scandal that has shaken college basketball to its core. Federal authorities revealed this week […]

September 28, 2017

Students

Student Loan Default Rate Rises Slightly

The portion of students defaulting on their federal student loans inched up 11.3 to 11.5 percent, data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education show.

September 27, 2017

Faculty & Staff

University of Wyoming Sees High Amount of Resignations

LARAMIE, Wyo. — University of Wyoming officials say they have lost 86 faculty members throughout the past academic year, four times more than it would lose in a typical year. The Laramie Boomerang reports the university suspects many of those that resigned left over concerns related to budget cuts and the central leadership of the […]

September 27, 2017

Students

Expert: Lower-income Dual Enrollment Students Need Additional Support

A new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) sheds some light on postsecondary degree-completion outcomes once dual enrollment students leave high school on a state-by-state basis.

September 26, 2017

Students

Analysis: States’ Interest in Outcomes-based Higher Ed Funding Grows

Twice as many states – four – as the prior year adopted outcomes-based funding in higher education in 2017, and a growing number of state legislatures made an effort to do so but got thwarted in the end, a new analysis released Tuesday by the Education Commission of the States shows.

September 26, 2017

Students

Chancellor Salgado Focuses on Mission and Efficiency

Juan Salgado was tapped by Mayor Rahm Emanuel earlier this year to become chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago after having served 16 years as CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino, a community-based not-for-profit located in Chicago’s Lower West Side neighborhood.

September 25, 2017

Students

Innovative Strategies for HBCUs Proposed at CBC Conference

A range of solutions and strategies emerged Thursday at the inaugural HBCU “braintrust” of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference.

September 21, 2017

Students

Former Obama Officials Launch Legal Group to Challenge DeVos

WASHINGTON — A group of Obama administration officials is starting a legal aid organization to challenge the Trump administration’s policies on student lending and civil rights. The National Student Legal Defense Network says it will join with state attorneys general and advocacy groups to sue on behalf of students defrauded by for-profit colleges or who […]

September 21, 2017

News Roundup

Audit Finds Washington State U. May Have Violated Federal Grant Rules

PULLMAN, Wash. — A state audit has found that Washington State University may have violated federal rules when it used about $17,000 from a grant to pay salaries and benefits for two employees who had little to no involvement in the projects. The Seattle Times reports the WSU professor who blew the whistle is concerned […]

September 21, 2017

News Roundup

Post University Dismisses 5 employees Amid Theft Probe

WATERBURY, Conn. — A private for-profit college in Connecticut has dismissed five employees as police investigate the suspected theft of $47,000 believed to have been paid out in bogus tuition reimbursement checks. Post University in Waterbury said Wednesday that it discovered irregular activity in February and immediately launched an internal review before contacting police. Waterbury […]

September 21, 2017

Students

Rutgers Grad Students Belatedly Receiving Summer Grants

As the fall semester begins at Rutgers University, hundreds of graduate students are only now receiving their summer funding.

September 20, 2017