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International

Warren Bill Would Ease Student Loan Interest Rates

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling on Congress to stop student loan interest rates from doubling this summer.

May 8, 2013

Home

Report: California Higher Education Reforms Should Focus on State’s Working Poor

New study documents the challenges California faces in moving state’s poorest families from low educational attainment to higher education success to ensure the state has enough college graduates in its workforce.

May 8, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Special Report: Money and Finance

Balancing Act: Many contingent faculty struggle with lack of financial security: Holding the line: Colleges choose to make big moves to battle tuition increases.

April 26, 2013

Leadership & Policy

College Board Approves Plan to Divide State Aid

Mississippi University for Women, the University of Mississippi and Alcorn State University will get financial boosts under a new formula to distribute state money among Mississippi’s eight public universities.

April 18, 2013

Students

Commitment to Service Helps Global Go-Getter Stand Out

Baruch College junior Alyssa Alicino was raised with many friends from Latin America and a sense of responsibility toward her community.

April 9, 2013

Community Colleges

Katrina Loan Changes Mean Relief to HBCUs

Three historically Black colleges and universities in New Orleans and one in Mississippi are getting relief from their federal loans taken after Hurricane Katrina.

April 8, 2013

Students

Mass. Sues For-Profit School for False Marketing

A for-profit school offered so little training that students who paid hefty fees to train as medical assistants never learned how to use a stethoscope, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by prosecutors in Massachusetts.

April 3, 2013

Home

R.I. Attorney General: Tuition Waiver Data Not Public Information

The Rhode Island attorney general’s office says the names of state university and college workers getting free tuition worth millions of dollars for themselves and their families are not public information.

April 2, 2013

Home

Okla. Panel Approves 9/11 Veteran Education Aid

An Oklahoma House committee has cleared a proposal to pay tuition and fees for veterans who became 100 percent disabled in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001.

March 25, 2013

Students

Community Colleges in Wash., Calif. Win Top Prize

Walla Walla Community College in Washington state and Santa Barbara City College in California were awarded the prestigious Aspen Prize on Tuesday for success attracting, retaining and graduating students into jobs and four-year universities.

March 19, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Florida A&M Suspends Search for New President

Florida A&M University on Friday abruptly halted its search for a new president after the university board chairman contended it was the wrong time to move ahead with a new leader.

March 17, 2013

Latinx

Pricey Colleges, the High Cost of Nutella and Timberlake’s Vegan Shake

Is it just New York’s Columbia University or is the insatiable demand for this thing called Nutella spreading throughout the land?

March 17, 2013