Bibb schools hosting sessions about paying for college
Macon Telegraph (blog)
“These workshops are designed to provide training and resources to help families effectively prepare for the rising costs of financing a college education,” GEAR UP project director Janice Flowers said in a news release. For more information, call the ...
HBCU Presidents Stood Up for Civil Rights
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
A professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Marybeth Gasman is the author of Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) and lead editor of Understanding ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Seeking Enrollment Boost, Wilson College Will Admit Men
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Wilson College's Board of Trustees voted on Sunday afternoon to begin accepting men to the college's traditional undergraduate program and to adopt a series of other recommendations aimed at broadening the liberal-arts institution's educational ...
Pa. women's college to become fully co-educationalSan Francisco Chronicle
Wilson College trustees vote to admit menChambersburg Public Opinion
Wilson College will become Co-Ed InstitutionFOX43.com
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New system will provide higher-quality education
Arizona Republic
The Republic's recent two-part story regarding the implementation of Common Core and its subsequent assessment highlighted the fact — and, as some argue, the criticism — that the move “will be difficult and expensive.” What wasn't captured in this ...
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Big tuition hike possible at state colleges
Ct Post
HARTFORD -- Students at the state's community colleges and university system could face double-digit tuition increases under a worst-case scenario being explored by the Board of Regents. "I cannot imagine how it cannot go up," said Lewis J. Robinson Jr ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Pa. women's college to become fully co-educational
San Francisco Chronicle
In addition to expanding coeducation across all programs, the college plans to reduce tuition, set up a student loan buyback program, add new academic programs — a number of them in health sciences — and improve facilities. "All of the measures ...
Seeking Enrollment Boost, Wilson College Will Admit MenChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Wilson College will become Co-Ed InstitutionFOX43.com
Wilson College Goes Co-EdWHAG
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Sprinklers lacking in higher education housing across Mississippi
Mississippi Press (blog)
OXFORD, Mississippi -- More than eight years after a fraternity house fire killed 3 University of Mississippi students, only 1 of the state's public colleges and universities has both installed a sprinkler system in every dormitory and required all ...
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Haaretz
Member of Israel's higher education council resigns over West Bank university ...
Haaretz
In letter to Education Minister Sa'ar, Ora Limor says council's accreditation of Ariel University shows it is 'political tool' instead of being a barrier between politics and higher education system. By Talila Nesher | Jan.13, 2013 | 9:18 PM ...
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U.S. News University
College degree has prove some buffer to recession
Evansville Courier & Press
It was a defining image of the Great Recession: floundering college grads stuck back home, living in mom and dad's basement. But while rooted in some truth, that picture doesn't show fully how the prolonged economic downturn broadly impacted people in ...
Is College Worth It? New Pew Study Finds Higher Education Protects WorkersU.S. News University
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Philadelphia Inquirer
College tuition is too high
Philadelphia Inquirer
A study by Moody's Investor Service says the demand for four-year college degrees is softening. Stagnant family incomes and poor job prospects in this economy are leading more young people to choose community college, if they choose college at all.
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