Microsoft Corp. has established a scholarship for graduate study at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center.
The initiative seeks to reward innovative work by minorities and women who are pursuing careers in entertainment technology as graphic artists, game designers and computer programmers. Two to four CMU students will receive the Microsoft Entertainment and Technology Diversity Scholarship [...]

Texas students seventh grade and up will take standardized tests one of two ways this year: by logging onto the Internet and clicking a mouse, or the old school way with paper and a freshly sharpened No. 2 pencil.
Texas joins 21 other states this year by offering its standardized test, the Texas Assessment of Knowledge [...]

When Owen Anderson starts his freshman year at Georgia College & State University on Wednesday, he said only one factor will determine whether he decides to drink: himself.
Wilson was in the middle of taking AlcoholEdu, an online alcohol education course that Georgia College requires freshmen to take before moving on campus. This is the first [...]

The University of Michigan has increased financial aid packages in an effort to reach out to the school’s most needy students. The university has expanded its M-PACT program, replacing loans with grants for qualified students.
Joe Serwach, a U-M spokesman, said he hopes the program inspires more people to go to college.
“Studies have shown that if [...]

You might weep the day you leave your son or daughter in a college dormitory for the first time, but wait until you take a look at the first bill for tuition, room and board.
You could be moved to a different kind of tears.
About this time of year, that bill arrives. And it’s a [...]

Continuing Education at the University of Kansas is adding a course to its online Independent Study curriculum. Orientation Seminar in Psychology (PSYC 102) will be available to students throughout Kansas and across the nation for one hour of academic credit.
This pioneering course, developed by Paul Atchley, associate professor of psychology at KU, will be the [...]

A buzz about Mt. San Jacinto College’s nursing program, boosted with a $1.49 million grant last year, has caught the attention of the state community college chancellor and an Inland congressman.
Chancellor Mark Drummond and Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Redlands, are scheduled on Tuesday to tour the Mt. San Jacinto College Menifee campus, where the program is [...]

The purpose of the planning grant is to develop a strategic plan to advance entrepreneurship in curriculum and operations across MCC’s five-campus system. This past year, MCC officials made entrepreneurship a strategic priority for the college.
Initially, MCC will use the grant to develop a blueprint to create entrepreneurial capacity in educational offerings and institutional operations.
MCC [...]

The College Heights United Methodist Preschool in Lakeland has received a $19,312 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland’s George W. Jenkins Fund. The funds are for the Outdoor Classroom Program. The preschool will purchase and construct new playground equipment shortly.

University of Colorado officials say this year’s new scholarship initiative is luring the nation’s highly recruited top high school grads at twice the rate of previous years.
Admissions counselors at the university say the new presidential scholarship is giving CU an edge as colleges nationwide compete for the highest-scoring grads in the country.
University President Hank Brown [...]

Gaby Cruz of Springdale, a broadcast journalism major at the University of Arkansas, is one of 10 students nationwide to receive a scholarship from the inaugural National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation Scholars Program.
The program is designed to enable outstanding communications students from diverse backgrounds to complete their undergraduate degree and begin careers in broadcasting. [...]

Sponsor: Daylon E. Kinney Scholarship.
Deadline: Dec. 15.
Award: $100-$2,000.
Description: Available to students who will be attending an accredited university in 2006 or 2007. You must submit an essay in fewer than 600 words that describes your most interesting college spring break experience. Explain how this experience influenced your life and why you believe you are [...]