Sinclair's economic impact tops $340M
Dayton Daily News
In 125 years, Sinclair Community College has grown from offering just a few classes for 55 men at the Dayton YMCA to preparing 23,500 students this semester for careers or more higher education. Sinclair's legacy makes it one of the oldest continuously ...
Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel Family Fund: Nonprofit Valencia program grooms students for ...
Orlando Sentinel
For a while, though, she worried that higher education was out of her reach. How would she afford tuition? How could she manage college classes without tutoring — the tutoring she gets in high school to help her overcome a learning disability? Then ...
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Orlando Sentinel Family Fund: Nonprofit Valencia program grooms students for ...
Orlando Sentinel
Lismarie, a senior at University High School in Orlando, hopes to someday become an occupational therapist so she can help disabled children. It's a job she knows requires a college degree. For a while, though, she worried that higher education was out ...
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The Epoch Times
Middle-Income Parents Weigh Rising College Costs
The Epoch Times
While most parents think that a college education is a worthy investment, there is an increase in the number of parents questioning the worth and rising cost of a college education, according to a recently released report. The survey, the Merrill Edge ...
Gadsden State receives diversity award
Gadsden Times
Gadsden State Community College received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a winner of the HEED award — which honors ...
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Watch documentary 'Education Under Fire' at EvCC
Mukilteo Beacon
The film focuses on the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education where, despite repeated raids and arrests, volunteer teachers and administrators created an independent, decentralized university system that has impacted the lives of thousands of Baha'i ...
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A $10000 college degree? Rick Perry bets on it
Hot Air
With costs exploding in higher education and student debt becoming a crippling fact of life, many are looking for ways to reduce costs while maintaining access and quality. Texas Governor Rick Perry has challenged colleges and universities in his state ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Getting poor students to college isn't just about affordability. It's about ...
Christian Science Monitor
Too many of America's children aren't worried about the cost of higher education because they can't even imagine attending college in the first place. To improve educational access, students from low-income communities need the same mentoring, ...
Many college students need feeding frenzy of historyOmaha World-Herald
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Close the door
phillyBurbs.com
In fact, a college campus should be a welcome home for non-traditional organizations and individuals. And education at all levels should embrace diversity and teach students about tolerance and acceptance. In part, that's what last week's show was about.
Does Texas Have an Answer to Sky-High Tuition?
National Journal
is experimenting with an initiative to help students and families struggling with sky-high college costs: a bachelor's degree for $10,000, including tuition fees and even textbooks. Under a plan he unveiled in 2011, Republican Gov. Rick Perry has ...
