University of Central Florida
Florida colleges offer a deal
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Florida's state university presidents said today that they would not ask for a tuition increase in the coming year if the Legislature will increase state funding by $118 million in the coming year. The Legislature cut the university system budget by ...
University Presidents Ask Legislators for $118 Million Investment in Higher ...University of Central Florida
Bense urges lawmakers to increase higher ed fundingPensacola News Journal
University leaders offer deal to avoid tuition hikeTbo.com
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Higher Levels of Education Now Required for Many Jobs
U.S. News University
This research is significant, as it reflects the growing importance of a college education in the job market. In 1992, only 19% of workers were expected to hold bachelor's degrees. By 2007, this figure had edged up to 21%. This percentage continues to ...
Higher Education Rebooted | From the Bell Tower
Library Journal
It may not rise to the trend of the year in higher education, but the “rethinking” of higher education is very much on the minds of everyone in the field. It's time for a reboot. Take the amount of time, effort and words that go into thinking about how ...
Dropouts: College's 37-Million-Person Crisis—and How to Solve It
The Atlantic
Within a decade, more than 60 percent of all new U.S. jobs are expected to require a college education. Raising the number of people with a bachelor's degree by 1 percentage point in the 51 most populous metropolitan areas would add $143 billion to the ...
Education cuts would harm future work force we needSpringfield News-Leader
Rethinking Grants and LoansInside Higher Ed
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Examine the Scope of Student Loan Borrower Distress
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
The equally-telling deferment, forbearance, and delinquency rates also continue to rise, and reporting from the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that even the new and sobering Department of Education three-year cohort default rates actually ...
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Education Program Aims To Give Inmates Self-Esteem
The Daily Voice
OSSINING, NY – Sean Pica, executive director of the Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a non-profit program to provide a college education to incarcerated men and women, is helping them make a positive impact in their lives and the community.
University Of Phoenix To Roll Out Partnerships With Community Colleges
Huffington Post
The new partnerships will funnel graduates of associate's degree programs at community colleges into bachelor's degree programs at the University of Phoenix, providing the for-profit school with an influx of students who are more likely to graduate and ...
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Immigrant College Tuition Bill Filed
Sunshine State News
Those students for years have been denied the ability to go to college because in-state tuition is based on students' parents' residency status. Such students' parents don't have a residency status. Out-of-state tuition is typically about three times ...
Keeping higher education on public agenda
Vineland Daily Journal
New Jersey's colleges and universities, and citizens have something to celebrate: passage of the “Building for the Future” higher education $750 million bond on Nov. 6 by nearly a 2/1 favorable vote. This is the first general obligation bond to support ...
Answering the Perception ProblemHuffington Post (blog)
How Much Will Technology Change Higher Education? [Infographic]Technapex
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
A Georgia Tech degree ranks in top 20 nationally for lifetime return on ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
PayScale has ranked more than 850 U.S. colleges (for both in and out-of-state tuition when applicable) by their college tuition ROI – what you pay to attend versus what you get back in lifetime earnings. (The site addresses critics of the 2012 rankings ...
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