The Education Industry Faces A Multi-Decade Peak
Yahoo! Finance (blog)
Higher education is perceived as extremely important, and for most people a college education has become the necessary admission ticket to good jobs and a middle-class lifestyle. This peaking psychology is manifesting in record popularity of college ...
College degrees pay off, new study shows
The Macomb Daily
LANSING – A four-year college degree is still worth paying for – even during recession years, a recent study shows. The Pew Charitable Trust concluded that during the recession, recent college grads had a lower unemployment rate than their counterparts ...
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Our Neighbors: Higher Education
Bryan-College Station Eagle
Elizabeth Lonero of Brenham; Sofia Gutierrez-Ortiz and Carolyn Woodworth of Bryan; Emily Surovik of Caldwell; Heather Burns, Sherri Hammons, Stephanie Hilton, Cole Murray and Brooke Werner, all of College Station; Jorge Munoz of Madisonville; Kayla ...
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Florida, US college students endure degrees of debt
The News-Press
Florida higher education Chancellor Frank Brogan said published figures only refer to students who graduate with debt, which means half of Florida's college students finish without owing any money. Brogan also points to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Higher education often brings more jobs, income
Salisbury Post
Candace Daugherty is in a work-study position in the career advising center at Rowan Karissa Minn/Salisbury PostCandace Daugherty is in a work-study position in the career advising center at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. She hopes to finish ...
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Higher education is in the cross hairs as cultural trends converge: Nayef Samhat
Plain Dealer
In higher education circles, one can reasonably wonder if 2013 will bring us to a tipping point. The burst of enthusiasm over massive open online courses, the rise of student debt, the decline of state support for public institutions and the strain on ...
CU, other schools oppose 4-year degrees at community colleges
The Daily Camera
University of Colorado President Bruce Benson and several other leaders of state colleges are opposing a bill that would allow community colleges to offer select four-year degree programs. In a letter to the Colorado General Assembly last month, Benson ...
Community college shopping simplifiedSan Francisco Chronicle
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Cabrillo College eyes new energy management degree, certificate program ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
The other offerings in art history, criminal justice and seven other disciplines are all part of the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act bill passed in 2010 that allows students to transfer to the California State University System college ...
GigaOM
Watson goes to college: How the world's smartest PC will revolutionize AI
GigaOM
However, as was recently announced, IBM decided Watson could use a college education and so will join here us at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. With its help, we hope to further advance artificial intelligence in a number of key areas. The Watson ...
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Minorities disadvantaged in college degree hunt
www.worldbulletin.net
While the study, which began in 1997, did not track wages, "the pattern is quite obvious that the higher educated are doing much better," said DiPrete, who analyzed other data from the BLS's long-term survey in his forthcoming book, "The Rise of Women ...
