Tag: Tuition and Fees: Page 95

Students

Faithful to its mission: Donnelly College provides second chances to inner-city students

KANSAS CITY, Kan. Donnelly College is blessed with a gift. Despite repeated monetary incentives to move from its poor, inner-city environment, it has remained in a single nine-story brick building – an old hospital gutted and rebuilt into a place of learning.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Report urges greater public investment in higher education

The Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE) released a two-year study that warns a “growing shortfall in public funding may force the nation’s colleges and universities to turn away half the student population by the year 2015.”

July 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors

Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.

July 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Athletics return, but the struggle continues at UDC; Harvard professors, local AAUP members unite to aid faltering institution – University of the District of Columbia; American Association of University Professors

Washington The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) will reinstate its athletics program in the fall, thanks to a referendum vote by students to increase student athletic fees by $50.

July 10, 2007

Students

Georgia study cites hope for student retention, better grades: model for national plan appears successful

ATLANTA In Georgia, borderline college students who depend on Hope scholarships to pay their tuition and fees are more likely to remain in school take snore courses and earn better grades, according to a new study by the Council for School Performance, an independent think tank.

July 10, 2007

Students

Education’s technological revolution hits Europe: curricula improvements wanted, cost increases not wanted

Paris Philippe Jollant, fed up with yet another boring lecture, stood up in his poetry class at the Sorbonne, swung his brown cloth bag over his shoulder and stalked out to a sunny cafe in this city’s Latin Quarter.

July 10, 2007

Home

IHEP Report Urges Support for Working Poor Trying to Earn Degrees

WASHINGTON, D.C. When Rachel Mayo decided to attend Northeastern University in Boston, she wasn’t deterred by the $31,500 tuition the private research institution charges.

July 10, 2007

Students

California’s Community College System Gets Students Into School But Not Always Out

SAN DIEGO For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite.

July 9, 2007

Students

Private scholarships for minorities challenged

Annandale, Va. The latest assault on the higher education establishment’s affirmative action programs is over an obscure, $500 private scholarship for minority students at a community college in Northern Virginia.

July 7, 2007

Students

Proposed bill would tell poor students they are guaranteed college funds – Washington Update

With most lawmakers focusing on education tax breaks, one Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member is touting what he calls a groundbreaking approach to financial aid that blends Pell Grants with elements of successful philanthropy projects.

July 7, 2007

Leadership & Policy

UDC battling back after major surgery – University of the District of Columbia

WASHINGTON It was with poetic irony that Mother Nature dealt the northeastern states one final blow of frosty weather on April Fool’s Day.

July 6, 2007

STEM

University of Wisconsin Regents Waiting for State Budget to Make Decision on Tuition Increases

MADISON Wis. University of Wisconsin System students will have to wait until next month to find out how much their tuition for the coming academic year will cost.

July 5, 2007