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Crowdfunding Efforts Prove Beneficial for Some Students

As college students in the United States and around the world turn to crowdfunding to finance their higher-education-related expenses, some experts warn others not to harbor high expectations about the method.

August 7, 2016

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Report: ‘$500M Club’ Shuns Low-income Students

Universities with the largest endowments were slammed as “playgrounds for the children of the wealthiest” in a new Education Trust report today that says the institutions should tap their endowments at a higher rate to benefit more low-income students.

August 3, 2016

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New Hampshire Community Colleges Balancing Access, Affordability

New Hampshire community colleges are working to bridge workforce gaps despite some of the highest costs of tuition in the country.

July 31, 2016

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ED Cuts off Financial Aid to Three MedTech College Campuses

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that it’s cutting financial aid for three MedTech College campuses due to misrepresentation about job placement rates.

July 26, 2016

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Free Community College Program Preparing to Launch in San Diego

Free community college is coming to San Diego. This fall, the first cohort of 201 students will participate in the San Diego Promise pilot program.

July 21, 2016

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Experts: Direct More Institutional Aid to Low-income Students

Colleges and universities should rethink the way they distribute institutional aid in order to matriculate more students who lack the means to pay.

July 21, 2016

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Pros Advise Higher Ed Endowment Managers to Stick to Principles

When it comes to managing endowments at institutions of higher education and trying to acquire good returns on investments, the task is fraught with unpredictability.

July 14, 2016

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Johnson C. Smith University Gets $1M Grant from Leon Levine Foundation

Johnson C. Smith joins the growing list of colleges and universities that are setting aside emergency funds to support students who face a shortfall between financial aid packages and the rising cost of tuition.

July 13, 2016

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$500 Tuition Could Apply to Elizabeth City State Students

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina lawmakers have re-included one historically black university in an experimental program to cut tuition to just $500 a semester for in-state students at some University of North Carolina campuses. House and Senate leaders announced Monday night as part of the two chambers’ budget compromise that tuition cuts for in-state students […]

June 28, 2016

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Education Management Corp. Lays Off 3 Percent of Workforce

PITTSBURGH ― Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp. has laid off hundreds of employees at Art Institute campuses across the country, including 41 in the city. The 3 percent reduction in the corporation’s workforce comes as the for-profit college operator adjusts to declining enrollment. Spokesman Bob Greenlee declined Wednesday to provide an exact count on the layoffs. […]

June 23, 2016

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Big Accreditor of For-profit Colleges Could Lose Authority

WASHINGTON ― A vote by an advisory panel to the Education Department could set the nation’s largest accreditor of for-profit colleges firmly on a path to closing its doors, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of students at risk of losing access to federal financial aid. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a group […]

June 23, 2016

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U of Missouri Dismissive of Grad Student Unionization Effort

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri asserts in a court filing that graduate students have no rights to collective bargaining. And if they do have that right, they are doing it wrong, attorney Michael Kaemmerer wrote in a brief filed last week in Boone County Circuit Court, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported. The filing […]

June 21, 2016