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College leaders: Focus on ensuring students get degrees
Washington Post (blog)
Higher education leaders made public a letter Wednesday night that is notable for stressing a point that should be obvious: “College completion must be our priority.” Which raises the question: Since when has completion not been a priority? The letter ...
College Chiefs Contemplate CompletionInside Higher Ed
Report Calls for Renewed Focus on Raising College-Completion RatesChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Dan Logue: $10K college degrees good for students, stateAppeal-Democrat
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio -LSU The Reveille -New York Times
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Helping Degree Seekers Finish What They Start
New York Times (blog)
There is a paradox in American higher education: of the millions of students who apply to and enter postsecondary degree programs, only about half end up graduating within six years. I nan article in Thursday's paper, my colleague Tamar Lewin and I ...
Edison College accepts governor's $10K degree challenge
Naples Daily News
Winge said the program should help students complete college more quickly, noting that many college students take longer than four years because of the costs. He also expects more students to be attracted to Edison because of the lower-cost degree.
Edison State College to offer discount degreeWink News
Edison State College to pursue $10K degreeFox 4
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The week in higher education
Times Higher Education
... excellence framework, which will allocate £1.6 billion of annual research funding, the ranks of the professoriate swelled to 18,465 in 2011-12, a 5.7 per cent increase, according to figures released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency on 17 ...
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Conference to Focus on College Education for Pacific Islanders
Big Island Now
A two-day conference on providing college education for Pacific Islanders will be held next month at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. The event entitled “Navigating the Success of Pacific Islanders in Higher Education” will bring together leaders from ...
Does online education work? Live chat with Grand Rapids Community College ...
MLive.com
Mideast Iran Internet.JPG Online learning is growing at schools such as Grand Rapids Community College. Two staff members from the college will participate in a live chat about how online education works and what it takes to succeed when learning online.
College Tuition In Idaho Is On Par With Western Region
StateImpact Idaho
Idaho college and university presidents spent the first part of this week making their pitches to the Legislature for funding. The common theme: as more Idahoans seek a college degree, the state needs to invest more in higher education. Boise State ...
Bolingbrook resident's non-profit aids college tuition, school expenses - Suburban Life Publications
Bolingbrook resident's non-profit aids college tuition, school expenses
Suburban Life Publications
When she was young, the Bolingbrook resident struggled to finance her university tuition and college expenses; now, she strives to aid students and teachers facing similar pitfalls. In 2010, Rao founded the Common Roots Initiative in order to aid the ...
New York Daily News
Who's your Sugar Daddy?: Rising higher education costs cause some students ...
Central Michigan Life
Students at Michigan universities are resorting to “sugar daddies” to pay for their school expenses based on a mutually beneficial arrangement. The average age for a sugar daddy is 35-to-45 years old, while the average sugar baby is 18-to-26 years old.
Cambridge is top university for 'sugar daddy dating'Telegraph.co.uk
Sugar daddy to pay tuition sought by Canadian college womenBeacon News (blog)
Vancouver Island Students Seek "Sugar Daddies" to Fund EducationHQ Comox Valley
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Higher Ed's Health is Not Well | From the Bell Tower
Library Journal
With all our distractions, higher education issues sometimes evade the average academic librarian's radar screen. Last week yielded some news worthy of our attention. With the students still on their winter break, amid the abnormal quiet of the library ...
