Category: GPA News

(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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A group of University of Texas students have passed the eighth day of a hunger strike to persuade Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson to vote for a measure that would allow illegal immigrant youths to become legal residents. (UPDATE: Forty more students …
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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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ARNOLD, Md. — A woman who has completed four college courses in the last few years celebrated a milestone Tuesday — her 100th birthday. Myrtle Berglund said she loves to spend time with her friends at the Arnold Senior Center. For her 100th birthday, she …
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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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(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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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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Delaware Valley College, in Doylestown, Pa., is embarking on a plan to attain university status and expand its educational offerings as a result of a $30-million gift it received this fall, reports the Associated Press . Joseph Brosnan, president of the …
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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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