13 weeks 5 days ago

Most New Jobs Don't Require College Education
The Real News Network
is a college education, and that's what they will—you know, that will be the key to getting them into a better-paying job and get them out of a status of working poverty. And when you look at what's actually out there in the U.S. economy and the types ...

13 weeks 5 days ago

Bush Library to host discussion about higher education
Bryan-College Station Eagle
The Texas Tribune, an Austin-based media nonprofit, is teaming up with Texas A&M to host a higher education symposium at 9 a.m. Thursday at the library's Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. The event is free and open to the public. Organizers ...

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13 weeks 6 days ago

2012's Worst Paying College Degrees
Town Hall
Payscale.com analyzed the data in its online salary database and has revealed the college degrees that go along with the jobs that have the lowest median pay for their respective career professionals in its 2012-13 College Salary Report. Note - these ...

13 weeks 6 days ago

The perpetual gift
LubbockOnline.com
I can't imagine any better choice to make or gift to give, than to ensure your child or grandchild, niece or nephew, has access to a college education. Financial aid, like social security, may very well go away one day. Then what? Even if it is still ...

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13 weeks 6 days ago

Local college students benefit from state?s pre-paid tuition plan
LubbockOnline.com
With the holiday season approaching, and gifts harder to think of than your grandma's recipe for egg nog, here's another way of giving: prepaid college tuition. The Texas Tomorrow Fund was the first prepaid college tuition plan offered by the state ...

13 weeks 6 days ago

City Town Info Education Channel

Is a $10000 college degree in Florida practical?
Ocala
"The importance of access to affordable higher education cannot be overstated," said Florida Board of Education member Sally Bradshaw, noting the state colleges offer a cheaper alternative to the cost of the state's 12 state universities and are often ...
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13 weeks 6 days ago

Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio

Scott call for cheaper degree follows steep budget cuts
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
But state support for higher education has fallen dramatically in the last five years, as lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott responded to Florida's sharp economic downturn with budget cuts, including deep ones to higher education. State universities endured ...
College-Student Partnership Yields Career SuccessHuffington Post (blog)
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13 weeks 6 days ago

al.com (blog)

Prepaid tuition program will run out of money in 2015 without lawsuit ...
al.com (blog)
MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Alabama's ailing prepaid college tuition program will deplete its assets sometime in 2015 unless the Alabama Supreme Court approves a lawsuit settlement with families, according to a new actuarial report. A September report by ...
More bad news for Ala. tuition plan; parents irateEducation Week News

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13 weeks 6 days ago

City Town Info Education Channel

State's $10000 college degree a gimmick
Orlando Sentinel
For example, at Valencia College students may be able to qualify for steep tuition discounts in their fourth year if they meet certain criteria during the first three years, such as attending full time, never repeating a course and not requiring any ...
Scott call for cheaper degree follows steep budget cutsSarasota Herald-Tribune
The $10000 College Degree? It Might Be Coming to FloridaGOOD Magazine
Florida Students and Faculty Petition Differential Tuition Rate ProposalCity Town Info Education Channel
The Courier-Journal -The South Florida Times -Permianbasin360
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13 weeks 6 days ago

Kennebec Journal

New president named for Maine community college
Boston.com
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (AP) — A higher education specialist with the World Bank has been named the next president of Kennebec Valley Community College. The Maine Community College System board of trustees on Wednesday endorsed Richard ...
Fulbright scholar named new president of Kennebec Valley Community CollegeKennebec Journal
Hopper named as Kennebec Valley Community College's next presidentBangor Daily News
World Bank educator to lead Fairfield's community collegePress Herald

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