OregonLive.com
Online Classes Mean No Dorm, Gym or Debt
Bloomberg
Given the pressing demands on state budgets, it is unlikely that funding for higher education will return to pre-2007 levels anytime soon. In fact, analysts predict just the opposite: Financing levels will continue to decrease in the years ahead to the ...
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City forum eyes condition of state's higher educationWilliamsport Sun-Gazette
College trend: Reducing tuition makes private colleges affordable for the ...allvoices
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College officials uncertain on budget effect
Statesman Journal
Not only are their state funds doled out by others — one according to a formula distributing aid to the 17 community colleges, the other historically by the state Board of Higher Education — they are affected by a sweeping reorganization that ...
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PolicyMic
Ivy League Online Degrees Should Millennials Drop Out of Traditional College
PolicyMic
Online courses could become the new norm for millennials, in a time when a college education is no longer a guarantee for a well-paying career. Many of the most powerful companies have been started by those who chose to drop out of college — Mark ...
Baltimore Sun
City firefighters face new education requirements for promotion
Baltimore Sun
The move — staggered into three phases over the next seven years to give candidates time to complete training courses and pursue college credits — elevates the fire department's educational standards above those of the city police department, where ...
Deseret News
More university-age people saying no to traditional college experience
Deseret News
Our take: More university-age people are opting not to take the road of a college education. With a sagging job market and fear of student debt, people are embracing risk and coming up with ideas and businesses without a college diploma. Benjamin ...
Saying No to CollegeNew York Times
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Number of students graduating high school, earning college degrees increasing
Red and Black
“In order to meet the demands of the work force, we need to have more and more people get college degrees,” said Laura Dowd, coordinator of the academic advising office at Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. This year, 90 percent of teenagers were ...
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Why the college degree mania?
Bend Bulletin
For many years the conventional wisdom in the United States has been that the more people who graduate from college, the better off we'll be. It's time to challenge that “wisdom." The evidence says it's wrong. In his first major address early in 2009 ...
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Why the college degree mania?
Press Herald
America already has gone far past the point of diminishing returns on higher education. Trying to lure more young people into college just so we can say we have more college graduates will lead to more 20-something Americans with college degrees ...
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Economic downside to college education
Tribune-Review
President Obama touted higher education as “imperative” during his re-election campaign. But record unemployment rates among recent graduates beg the question as to whether a college education is essential and worth the high and rising cost.
The Express Tribune
Higher education: Former HEC chief slams 'govt interference'
The Express Tribune
The Higher Education Commission is undergoing a “systematic destruction” via a “heinous conspiracy”, former HEC Chairman Dr Attaur Rahman said on Saturday, condemning the replacement of the commission's executive director. Speaking to reporters ...
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