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Disabilties

Report: Clear Path from Community Colleges to 4-Year Institutions

The Edvance Foundation issued a report that lays out a series of recommendations on how to smooth the transfer pathway from community colleges to four-year institutions.

November 19, 2015

Sports

Official: Tennessee Promise Helps Spike in Higher Ed Enrollment

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s free-tuition program has contributed to a spike in students pursuing a postsecondary degree at the state’s public higher education institutions, the program’s executive director said Thursday. Tennessee Promise offers eligible high school seniors free tuition to a two-year community or technical college. According to the Tennessee Higher Education […]

November 19, 2015

Students

Diverse Conversations: Do Full-ride Scholarships Really Increase College Diversity?

Finances are certainly an obstacle when it comes to creating diverse college campuses but it is not the only issue.

November 18, 2015

Students

Campus Marches Over Student Debt Held Coast-to-Coast

BERKELEY, Calif. ― Students at the University of California, Berkeley and more than a hundred other colleges and universities staged marches Thursday in support of free tuition, a $15 minimum wage for campus workers and the cancellation of debt from student loans. Known as the Million Student March, the demonstrations at schools from Massachusetts to […]

November 13, 2015

Students

Colorado County Bullish on Pot Starts New Weed Scholarship

A Colorado county that boasts the world’s largest outdoor marijuana farm and has been actively courting the new pot industry has approved the world’s first marijuana-funded college scholarship.

November 4, 2015

Faculty & Staff

South Carolina State Responds to Segregation Lawsuit

South Carolina’s only historically Black public university says that it has immunity and that current and former students who brought a federal court lawsuit alleging that the state operates a segregated system of higher education have no standing to sue.

November 2, 2015

Home

College Aid: Obama to Extend Pell Grants to Some HS Students

Thousands of low-income students will be eligible for federal Pell grant money to take college courses while still in high school.

November 1, 2015

International

Generation Xers Candid About Financial Future

Earlier this year, the insurance company Allianz Life released the findings of the Generations Apart Study that examined the financial outlook and attitude of 1000 Generation Xers (1965 to 1979) and 1000 Baby Boomers (1946 to 1964).

October 27, 2015

Students

Ole Miss Removes Mississippi Flag with Confederate Emblem

The University of Mississippi quietly removed the state flag with its Confederate battle emblem from its place of honor on campus Monday morning after students and faculty called it a divisive symbol that undermines efforts to promote diversity, tolerance and respect.

October 26, 2015

Leadership & Policy

After Narrow Vote, FAMU Board Chairman Resigns

Saying that his current relationship with Florida A&M University President Elmira Mangum is “broken and irreparable,” the chairman of the university board stepped down from his post on Friday.

October 25, 2015

Students

ELREO CAMPBELL

ELREO CAMPBELL has been appointed an associate dean and director of financial aid at Colby College. He was dean of student financial services at Newbury College. Campbell earned an associate from the Community College of Philadelphia, a bachelor’s from Drexel University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

October 22, 2015

Students

Government Tightens Payments to For-profit College ITT Tech

WASHINGTON — U.S. Education Department officials are placing new limits on federal student aid administered by struggling for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services.

October 20, 2015