Colo. governor signs bill giving colleges more room to raise tuition after state funding cuts – Washington Examiner

DENVER — Calling it a stopgap measure to save higher education, Gov. Bill Ritter signed a bill Wednesday giving Colorado colleges more flexibility to set tuition rates. He also signed a measure providing $35 million to help lower- and middle-income students with tuition. “Higher education has …
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Dominion CEO will lead Va. panel on higher education – Richmond Times-Dispatch

Dominion Resources Inc. President and CEO Thomas F. Farrell II, a former rector of the University of Virginia, will lead Gov. Bob McDonnell’s commission tasked with holding college tuition costs down and boosting the number of students attaining degrees. Farrell heads the Governor’s Commission on …
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College Board names interim MUW president – Mississippi Business Journal

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Allegra Brigham, CEO and general manager of 4-County Electric Power Association, has been named interim president at the Mississippi University for Women. The state College Board made the decision Friday during a meeting on the Columbus campus. Higher Education Commissioner …
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Immigration activists urge Sen. Scott Brown to back ‘Dream Act’ – Boston Herald

B OSTON — Several dozen immigrant activists and students handed representatives of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown hundreds of letters in support of a bill that would give illegal immigrant students a pathway to citizenship if they join the military or finish college. The coalition, chanting “education, not …
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Nation has high college remedial education rate – San Francisco Chronicle

Professor Derron Bowen teaches high school math to college students, patiently chalking equations on the board on basic arithmetic topics such as the speed of a driver on a 20-hour trip. Bowen’s class at Broward College in South Florida is for …
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San Diego State University Receives $1.5 Million Department of Education Grant – PR Inside

The College of Business Administration : at San Diego State University ( SDSU : ) announced today that the university’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This grant will be disbursed starting this
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