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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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SAGINAW (WJRT) — (12/03/09)–A program designed to offer high school graduates a free college education is starting to take shape in Saginaw. Wednesday night the Saginaw Public School District took a big step toward implementing the city’s Promise …
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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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