Higher ed commission wants tuition increase held at inflation
Journal and Courier
The Commission for Higher Education wants schools to keep the sticker price low because its asking the General Assembly for a 7.5 percent increase of tax dollars to fund college operating expenses, student financial aid, campus repairs and capital ...
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Washington Blade
Gov. Quinn, college students discuss financial aid for higher education
Washington Times-Reporter
Gov. Pat Quinn was joined by Illinois college students on Dec. 12 to discuss how inaction on pension reform is threatening Monetary Award Program (MAP) college scholarships and access to higher education in Illinois. One after one, the students made ...
Illinois college students join state pension reform pushThe State Journal-Register
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Washington Blade
Gov. Quinn, college students discuss financial aid for higher education
East Peoria Times-Courier
Pat Quinn was joined by Illinois college students on Dec. 12 to discuss how inaction on pension reform is threatening Monetary Award Program (MAP) college scholarships and access to higher education in Illinois. One after one, the students made clear ...
Illinois college students join state pension reform pushThe State Journal-Register
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America's Top Job Creators? College Grads
BusinessNewsDaily
Large populations of college graduates boost employment opportunities in the cities they call home, even when it comes to residents who lack higher education, new research shows. The study revealed that for each 10 percent rise in the number of ...
Dramatic Overhaul of College Remedial Education Is Needed, Says Report from ...
University of Texas at Austin News
13, 2012. AUSTIN, Texas — An immediate and dramatic transformation in remedial education is needed at the college level, says a report just issued by a national coalition of education researchers and advocates, including the Charles A. Dana Center at ...
Crash Course for RemediationInside Higher Ed
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Family tuition discount aims to relieve student debt, college costs
VOXXI
Student debt has reached more than $900 billion dollars, coming in second only to mortgages as the primary source of debt for people in the United States. With more students defaulting on loans—approximately 14 percent of student debt is past ...
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Local colleges fast track IT degree
The Salinas Californian
“One of the major goals of the Matsui Foundation in providing financial assistance for local students to obtain college degrees is to have them eventually contribute to the betterment and economic vitality of Monterey County,” said William D. Barr of ...
Houston Press
The $10000 Degree
National Review Online
In November, Florida governor Rick Scott announced that he, too, wanted to see state colleges offer bachelor's degrees for $10,000 or less. In Texas, ten colleges have signed on (some of them working together in a partnership), while in Florida, twelve ...
More schools taking note of degrees for $10000San Antonio Express
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Crash Course for Remediation
Inside Higher Ed
Complete College America on Wednesday reiterated its urgent call for reforming remedial education, arguing that incremental fixes won't be enough. “Recent research is making clear that if our goal is for students to enter and move through programs of ...
Dramatic Overhaul of College Remedial Education Is Needed, Says Report from ...University of Texas at Austin News
Durbin: Trim Fat on For-Profit College SubsidiesRoll Call
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Bluefield College to offer master's degree in '13
WWBT
Bluefield President David Olive calls the development a "tremendous step" for the college as a school of higher education. The master's degree expansion comes nearly 40 years after Bluefield earned accreditation to offer bachelor's degrees. Bluefield ...
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