Tag: Academic Degrees: Page 22

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Are Portals to New Career Paths

In today’s ever-changing business climate, college-educated professionals are increasingly transitioning to new careers with community college degrees and certificates.

November 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Utah Valley State College Approves First Master’s Degree for Utah Valley University

OREM, Utah Utah Valley State College has taken a big first step toward its new status as a university.

November 8, 2007

Sports

Montana Tribal College Dreams Big, Celebrates 30th Anniversary

PABLO Mont. If she wanted to, Lois Slater wouldn’t have to go any farther than a mirror to find a compelling story about how educational opportunities can turn a life around.

November 7, 2007

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Education Policy Researchers Push For Financial Aid Policies That Help Working-poor Students

A college-access advocacy group wants changes to the federal financial aid policy that penalizes part-time students who have to work to full time to support themselves.

November 5, 2007

STEM

19 Public University Systems Commit To Closing Achievement Gap

African-American college students earn bachelor’s degrees at nearly half the rate – Hispanic students are nearly worse at less than a third – than white students. Low-income students get their undergraduate degrees at one-eighth the rate of economically more advantaged students. Now, nineteen public higher education systems across the country have banded together to try to reverse these trends.

October 30, 2007

Community Colleges

Hamilton College and Kaplan University Merge

DES MOINES Iowa Kaplan Inc., which owns Hamilton College and Kaplan University said Tuesday the two institutions have merged.

October 30, 2007

Students

Kids of Illegal Immigrants Live in Fear But Pursue American Dream

SPOKANE Wash. A teenage girl studying entrepreneurship at Washington State University would be on her way to realizing the American Dream, except she is not American.

October 30, 2007

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Claflin VP Named President of Georgia HBCU

AUGUSTA Ga. George C. Bradley, the executive vice president at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C., has been named the new president of Paine College.

October 15, 2007

HBCUs

Michigan State’s Ivy-covered Halls to Extend to Dubai University

EAST LANSING Mich. The next time Michigan State University expands its operations, it will be going a bit farther afield than Grand Rapids.

October 14, 2007

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University of Alaska Southeast to offer bachelor’s degree in art

JUNEAU Alaska The University of Alaska Southeast plans to add a bachelor’s degree in art to its curriculum in the spring semester, making it easier for art students to enter graduate programs, university officials said.

October 1, 2007

Latinx

The Top Hispanic-serving Degree Producers

Each year, when we publish our list of Top 100 undergraduate degree producers, we get calls from Hispanic-serving institutions asking why they didn’t make the list. The answer may surprise you.

September 29, 2007

Community Colleges

Community college system growth celebrated

SOUTH PORTLAND Maine Just weeks in advance of a statewide bond issue vote that would benefit Maine’s community colleges, state officials Monday trumpeted a 57 percent growth in enrollment to 11,801 degree-seeking students over the last five years.

September 23, 2007