Higher education focus shifts to finishing college
Daily Mail - Charleston
The leaders of West Virginia's institutes of higher education believe colleges need to shift attention from recruiting students to ensuring that they graduate. James Skidmore, head of the Council for Community and Technical College Education, and Paul ...
Community colleges focus on student retentionBeckley Register-Herald
Higher Education Chancellor Sees Cracks In the PipelineWCHS
Retention, enrollment rates continue to plague WV higher educationState Journal
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San Francisco Chronicle
Oregon governor, lawmakers push bill on instate college tuition for some ...
The Register-Guard
Kitzhaber said current public college tuition rules deny the chance of a college education to thousands of children brought to the U.S. by their parents, “who have worked hard, who have gone to school, who've got good grades, (and) who've graduated ...
Proponents try new message on immigrant tuitionDaily Astorian
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New Orleans area higher education briefs for Feb. 12, 2013
The Advocate
Photo provided by Our Lady of Holy Cross College -- Our Lady of Holy Cross Show caption Photo provided by Our Lady of Holy Cross College -- Our Lady of Holy Cross College accounting students providing free tax preparation are, from left, Lucia Dinh, ...
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How to Save Thousands on College Tuition
KAALtv.com
In fact, a firm in Saint Paul specializes in dramatically reducing the amount of debt students must take on to finance a college education. College Assistance Plus for Minnesota identifies what types of students colleges are most attracted to and then ...
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Wisconsin Radio Network
Walker Wants To Invest Nearly $100M in Workforce
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
There is likely to be bipartisan support for many proposals, but some won't placate Democrats, who have been critical of Walker's higher-education cuts including roughly $300 million over two years to the University of Wisconsin system. Budget ...
Wisconsin governor offers budget plans for food stamps, higher educationSuperior Telegram
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
The Rising Cost of Tuition Surpasses the Rate of Inflation
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
The price of college tuition has increased at a pace much faster than that of inflation in recent years. According to a report by the Delta Cost Project, tuition for a public four-year institution in 1970 was $358 per semester. If tuition had grown in ...
Associate Dean for Research and Director of the PhD Program
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Florida International University (FIU) invites nominations and applications for the position of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of the Ph.D. Program of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. The College of Nursing and Health ...
Long Island Exchange
Lupinacci, Zimpher Discuss Growing Impact of College Education
Long Island Exchange
Lupinacci, a professor at SUNY Farmingdale, Hofstra University and the Ranking Minority Member on the Higher Education Committee, discussed several proposals including increasing collaboration between SUNY and local K-12 programs and the ...
The Hindu
Scoring higher on education
The Hindu
Although Indian higher education suffers from many dysfunctionalities and the system overall is characterised by “pinnacles of excellence in a sea of mediocrity”, it does reasonably well by some international comparisons. Here are a few examples ...
William and Mary News
Gates lauds the value of higher education at Charter Day
William and Mary News
Higher education is a public good that should be supported by the government for the benefit of society as a whole, said former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates '65, L.H.D. '98 at William & Mary's Charter Day ceremony on Feb. 8. “We will all pay ...
Gates critiques state's decreased investment in higher education at Charter DayThe Flat Hat
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