4 days 8 hours ago

www.worldbulletin.net

Young men, minorities worse off in hunt for college degrees: study
Reuters
Sociology professor Thomas DiPrete, co-director of Columbia University's Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, said the data highlights a worrying gender gap when it comes to college education, with men slipping behind. While the study, which ...
One-fourth of young Americans are college graduates by age 25Kansas City Star

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4 days 9 hours ago

Indiana Public Media

Lawmakers Propose Reforms to Higher Education Financial Aid
Indiana Public Media
Indiana lawmakers say making the state's higher education scholarship programs easier to understand and use will help increase graduation rates. A student journalist works on a story for a college paper. Photo: Shameka Neely /WFIU-WTIU News. A student ...

4 days 9 hours ago

Famed free NYC college may start charging tuition
Seattle Post Intelligencer
NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a century, Cooper Union has been a one-of-a-kind meritocracy: Open to any student qualified to walk through its doors. For free. Its founder envisioned higher education open to all — regardless of race, gender or class ...

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4 days 10 hours ago

White House report notes that sequestration will also affect higher education ...
Red Alert Politics
A White House report released today found that the sequestration cuts will result in an 8.2 percent across-the-board program cut for many college funding programs, including federal work-study programs and the Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant, ...

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4 days 10 hours ago

Cooper Union, long home to free education for all, faces vote to charge ...
Fox News
The nearly 1,000-student college is famous for arts, engineering and architecture programs that rank among the most selective in the country. But a $12 million budget deficit, years of stop gap measures and ever increasing higher education costs have ...

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4 days 10 hours ago

Famed free NYC college may start charging tuition
The Olympian
Its founder envisioned higher education open to all - regardless of race, gender or class - an ideal that has remained the prestigious school's most cherished principle since 1902. But a lot can change in 100 years. Cooper's Board of Trustees is ...

4 days 10 hours ago

Famed free NYC college may start charging tuition
Huffington Post
The nearly 1,000-student college is famous for arts, engineering and architecture programs that rank among the most selective in the country. But a $12 million budget deficit, years of stop gap measures and ever increasing higher education costs have ...

4 days 11 hours ago

Kiriluk-Hill: Offer lower-cost college tuition, financial aid to legal NJ ...
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
I'm not suggesting that we deny any child education at the primary and high school levels. Education carries not just individual, but societal, benefits. In a perfect world, four-year colleges would be affordable to all who have worked hard to earn the ...

4 days 12 hours ago

One-fourth of young Americans are college graduates by age 25
Kansas City Star
About 1 percent of women were in the Armed Forces at age 25, regardless of educational attainment, but the military participation of men varied by education status. Five percent of male high school graduates who had not enrolled in college were in the ...

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4 days 12 hours ago

Christian Science Monitor

College tuition: Pay $10000 for four years?
Christian Science Monitor
Recently, Alex Stenner, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, saved hundreds of dollars on tuition and hours spent in class. He signed up for a free online introduction to psychology course offered by Education Portal, of Mountain ...

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