Month: December 2009

BISMARCK – North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education has approved guidelines for campuses to use to set student room and board prices for the next school year. The rules say North Dakota’s colleges first have to include 5 percent minimum average …
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… governor is expected to announce a strategic review of the state’s higher education systems that will lead to a long-term master plan for the future of higher education … college presidents and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.
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More than one in five borrowers of federal student loans who attend for-profit colleges default within three years of repayment, new figures made available by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday show. Historically, the government has reported such figures in terms of how many students default
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“This is a fun and entertaining way to help get students thinking about higher education and their plans for the future,” said Linda Franklin , the president and CEO of Colleges Ontario. “We are encouraging students to explore all of the options …
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Missouri’s student loan agency now is more than $30 million behind schedule on its payments to a college construction program. A 2007 state law directs the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to pay $5 million quarterly toward the building plan …
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HAYS – Aspiring teachers are flocking to the education program at Fort Hays State University. Enrollment is up 50 percent in undergraduate programs and 57 percent in graduate programs in the College of Education and Technology in the last four years …
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The Pell Grant program for needy college students is facing a massive shortfall as the country’s bleak job market drives people back to school … The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Rep. George Miller, California Democrat, said …
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DeVry Inc. (NYSE: DV, member S&P 500 Index) is the parent organization of DeVry University, Advanced Academics, Ross University, Chamberlain College of Nursing, Apollo College, Western Career College, Becker Professional Education, and Fanor. DeVry …
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — The chancellors of California’s three higher education systems say lawmakers are jeopardizing the state’s Master Plan for Education by making deep funding cuts. The half-century-old document guaranteed a low-cost college education …
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Former State Education Commissioner Andy Tompkins is helping the district with the search. Tompkins is the dean of Pittsburg State University’s College of Education. The deadline for submitting an application is Jan. 8.
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… did last year to prepay a year of tuition and fees at a four-year state university … Officials at the Virginia College Savings Plan, which administers the program, said Monday that one year of prepaid in-state tuition and mandatory fees for a …
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