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New Look for Lumina
Inside Higher Ed
Lumina's emphasis until now has been on college preparation, college success and productivity in higher education, said Jamie P. Merisotis, the foundation's president. Those three broad areas will be replaced by five specific goals around mobilizing ...
Lumina Foundation Adopts New Tactics to Reach College-Completion GoalChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
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Lumina Foundation Adopts New Tactics to Reach College-Completion Goal
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
First, the foundation will seek to spur communities, employers, state and local lawmakers, and higher-education leaders to adopt specific goals and actions to increase the number of students who earn postsecondary credentials. Second, Lumina will help ...
New Look for LuminaInside Higher Ed
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Tuition assistance for Lynchburg College education students
Lynchburg News and Advance
Tuition assistance for Lynchburg College education students. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger font size. Posted: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 11:36 pm. Tuition assistance for Lynchburg College ...
College presidents propose tuition freeze for $225 million of state funding
Dailyuw
The presidents of Washington's six four-year universities released a statement Tuesday saying they will not raise tuition for two years if the Legislature comes up with $225 million in state funding for higher education. This proposal follows two years ...
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One In Four Freshmen Now Starts In January, Not August
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
“More and more people are going to college these days in general, whereas maybe 50 years ago there was an economy in which people could get jobs they were happy with without a college education,” says Laura Dimino, director of student services at ...
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Benefits of College Degree in Recession Are Outlined
New York Times
Young adults have long faced a rough job market, but in the last recession and its aftermath, college graduates did not lose nearly as much ground as their less-educated peers, according to a new study. The study, published on Wednesday by the Pew ...
College Degree Helped Recent Grads During RecessionCity Town Info Education Channel
The Biggest Myth About College Graduates and the Recession: BustedThe Atlantic
Study: College degree a potential safeguard in recessionAmarillo.com (blog)
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Examiner.com
College Enrollment Will Grow More Slowly, Education Department Projects
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The number of students enrolled in college will continue to grow between 2010 and 2021, but the increases will be flatter than the steep climbs seen in the previous 14 years, according to projections released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of ...
Predicting who goes to college in 2021Examiner.com
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Las Vegas Review - Journal
Higher education officials push to revise funding formula
Las Vegas Review - Journal
The state higher education system has requested $472 million a year over the next two years, the same budget the system had the past two years. But officials have been working to rewrite the formula that helps split that money up between a research ...
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Gloucestershire partnership a failure, says QAA
Times Higher Education
The "systemic failure" of a university's partnership with a private college meant that 40 master's students did not take their course, the sector's quality watchdog has found. The Quality Assurance Agency has published a "concerns" report into the ...
Wall Street Journal
Colleges Lose Pricing Power
Wall Street Journal
The demand for four-year college degrees is softening, the result of a perfect storm of economic and demographic forces that is sapping pricing power at a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities, according to a new survey by Moody's Investors ...