La. lawmakers tell Regents to produce college plan – AP – msnbc.com

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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Hero’s welcome for Professor of Year at Columbia College – The State

No ballgame had been won. No championship was secured in a far-away stadium. And yet more than 30 students, faculty and staff, donned in Columbia College purple, gathered at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport Friday afternoon to welcome home a 59-year old …
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Can less mean more in college application race? – Idaho Statesman

One recent afternoon, Kimberly Pollock visited the college counseling office at the Derryfield School, a small independent day school set on 84 wooded acres in Manchester, N.H. It had come time to talk number of applications, and the senior honors student …
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More Millionaire College Pres., Ga. in Lower Half – News/Talk 750 WSB

(WSB Radio/AP) — The club of private college and university presidents earning seven figures is getting less exclusive, while some of Georgia’s leaders are below the curve. Thirty presidents received more than $1 million in pay and benefits in 2008 …
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Bold actions needed to produces results in education – Daily Oklahoman

One of the most effective ways to impact classrooms in Oklahoma City is to seek strong leaders at all levels in the system and open up pathways for them to create entrepreneurial solutions for our public education challenges. We can look at KIPP Reach …
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Va. commission recommends New College Institute become a branch campus of a 4-year university – San Francisco Examiner

RICHMOND, VA. — A panel has recommended that the New College Institute, a higher-education center in the economically struggling Martinsville area, should evolve into a branch campus of one of Virginia’s existing public universities. NCI should leverage …
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