Month: December 2010

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Live, from Mansfield University, it’s late-night political science class! Wondering if students would be more enthusiastic and alert in the classroom after dark, professor Jonathan Rothermel scheduled an hour plus-long class next …
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The two major reasons: higher education allegedly has positive “externalities” or “spillover effects” so that even non-college graduates benefit from college education. Second, like most Americans I support the American Dream, the idea that anyone …
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Stony Brook is typical of American colleges and universities these days, where national surveys show that nearly half of the students who visit counseling centers are coping with serious mental illness, more than double the rate a decade ago. More students …
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Kimberly Gorman has received a scholarship from Gateway Tigers, the St. Louis Chapter of the Mizzou Alumni Association. Gateway Tigers has more than 4,700 members from the St. Louis metropolitan area. Members provide annual scholarships to support local …
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AUSTIN – Comptroller Susan Combs should run a group-purchasing program that lets cities, counties, school districts and public colleges buy high-tech products at cut rates, the Sunset Advisory Commission proposed Thursday. An influential lawmaker who …
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(Thanks Uncle Sam!) As someone who narrowly avoided dropping out of college because my folks couldn’t afford it, meeting students who didn’t have to worry about the cost of education was eye-opening. More than a decade later — as I dutifully write checks …
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Birmingham — Birmingham, AL (WVTM) – The Prepaid Alabama College Tuition program is short 250 million dollars, after making four million in the stock market so far this year. Some PACT families and even some members of Alabama’s legislature believe the …
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NORCROSS, Ga., Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Military Advanced Education (MAE) has selected Ashworth College , a leader in online education, for inclusion in their 4th Annual Guide to Top Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities. “This guide has …
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A group of two dozen state lawmakers called Thursday on the Board of Regents to quickly give them a plan for scaling back state college spending, as budget cuts loom for the campuses. The lawmakers — all members of the state House of Representatives and …
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