Opinion: Higher education should not just serve as job factory
LSU The Reveille
American universities are focusing too much on getting students jobs and not enough on making people smarter. For example, there's no need — other than the cultural one — to go to LSU to become an accountant. You can graduate from almost any school ...
EDUCATION: Only 54% of students seek college aid
Press-Enterprise
Riverside Poly High School senior Renee Marquez, left, finishes filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid with help from her mother, Irene Cordoba, center, during a Cash for College workshop at her school. Marquez's aunt Margret ...
Sequester to have major impact on higher education facilities
WGEM
But John Wood Community College officials say if Congress doesn't reach a deal Friday, vital student aid programs will be cut. Making a more affordable education that much harder to attain. "The total impact for the college is targeted at $75,000 ...
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Alabama universities hold annual higher education rally
Montgomery Advertiser
Students hold signs and yell during the annual Higher Education Day Rally, hosted by the Higher Education Partnership, in front of the State House on Thursday morning, Feb. 28, 2013. (Montgomery Advertiser/Lloyd Gallman) / Lloyd Gallman/Advertiser ...
Students, faculty rally at Alabama capital for more higher-ed fundingal.com (blog)
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Early morning community college classes help full-time workers, parents ...
Bangor Daily News
Patrick Howard (left), 21, flips through writing he plans to share during a discussion in a Wednesday morning class at Southern Maine Community College's South Portland campus. The school's new slate of 7 a.m. classes have proven popular, community ...
Dean of the College of Nursing
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
We offer a distinctive academic environment built on our cherished values and unique heritage, welcoming campus on the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida, championship athletics, and prime location in the heart of the state capital ...
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The Benefits Of A College Degree [SERIES]
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
This is part four of a weeklong series on higher education costs in New Jersey. See the entire series here. The ever-rising costs of tuition have discouraged many New Jersey students from the traditional, four-year route of higher education. However ...
Another View: New model for designing, funding college education is needed
The Union Leader
The model for designing, delivering and funding a college education is broken. Inflation in higher education is triple that of consumer prices. Only half of today's college graduates secure a job that requires a degree. College debt has reached $1 ...
Today's College Graduates: In Debt and Unable to Find a JobSan Diego Free Press
More Than Half of 2006 College Graduates Are Employed in Kentucky Five ...SurfKY News
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Professors seek accessibility to higher education
The Bullet
Psychology professor Craig Vasey congregated with colleagues in the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education [CFHE] to discuss the depletion of higher education throughout the country. Vasey, who is a member of CFHE, is also the Virginia ...
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Pima College drops tuition price for immigrant 'Dreamers'
Arizona Daily Star
Dreams of an affordable higher education are about to come true for some young illegal immigrants who live in Pima County. Dozens of them cheered tonight as Pima Community College's governing board agreed to steep tuition discounts for those who ...
Pima Community College cuts tuition for those in immigration programABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
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