On the Money: College degree still holds sway in weak job market
Pioneer Press
Despite a dismal job market for recent college graduates, a record number of Americans are completing bachelor degrees. According to research by the Pew Research Center, a third of Americans between 25 and 29 have college degrees and the lure of ...
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Letter: Quantity, not quality, in higher education
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Your Nov. 11 PolitiFact article "Funding model changing how colleges do business" accepts without question Gov. Bill Haslam's unstated thesis that Tennessee's institutions of higher education will maintain high qualitative criteria in the face of ...
Soaring college administrative costs pit bureaucrats against professors
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Paul Robinson, chairman of Purdue University's faculty senate, strode through the halls of a 10- story concrete-and-glass administrative tower. "I have no idea what these people do," said Mr. Robinson, waving his hand across a ...
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New effort should make sure college education counts
Winston-Salem Journal
College, at its best, helps students point themselves toward the rest of their lives. Some do it with a purposeful degree path that steers them into a chosen career. Some build a foundation of critical thinking and breadth that the liberal arts can ...
Many community colleges missing goals
Long Beach Press-Telegram
The Campaign for College Opportunity, a California- based nonprofit designed to improve access to higher education, noted that just 23 percent of California's community college students transfer to a four- year university within six years. The new ...
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Community colleges inching toward better transfer rates
Long Beach Press-Telegram
The Campaign for College Opportunity, a California- based nonprofit designed to improve access to higher education, noted that just 23 percent of California's community college students transfer to a four- year university within six years. The new ...
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Community colleges inching toward better transfer rates
Contra Costa Times
The Campaign for College Opportunity, a California- based nonprofit designed to improve access to higher education, noted that just 23 percent of California's community college students transfer to a four- year university within six years. The new ...
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Online college courses gaining popularity in Kentucky
The Courier-Journal
Mirroring a national trend, online courses are exploding in popularity across Kentucky, grabbing an expanding share of students' college educations, according to a recent Council on Postsecondary Education report. Roughly one in three students now take ...
Legislators Weigh Options for Tuition Deregulation
New York Times
The 2013 legislative session will mark the 10th anniversary of a decision by Texas lawmakers to deregulate college tuition, giving the authority to set tuition at public universities to the institutions. The Texas Tribune. Expanded coverage of Texas is ...
Washington Tennis & Education Foundation opens new facility in Ward 7
Washington Post
But Rossides said it wasn't until after graduating from college when she volunteered at the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation, a free tennis program run by her pro tour coach Willis Thomas, that she learned her sport could change lives. Loading.
