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 [...]

Many parents who want to help their children with college costs are not aware that funds still are available before the fall semester begins. With PLUS Loans — Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students, funds up to the full cost of college with rates as low as 6.25 percent are available throughout the year through Phoenix-based [...]

Here’s a partial list of new programs and initiatives at colleges and universities:
• Main campus classes begin Aug. 28.
• TSU is offering a new online master’s degree in Professional Studies in Strategic Leadership. The program is offered entirely online and even provides all services online: registration, advisement, classes, homework and professor interaction, purchasing of books [...]

Joliet Junior College will seek to increase online offerings for students.
JJC now offers 52 online courses, but students can not complete the work to earn an associate degree for an entire program by taking a class over a computer. However, administrators have started studying ways to increase online offerings.
Administrators discussed the new effort Wednesday night [...]

Here’s a partial list of new programs and initiatives at colleges and universities:
• Main campus classes start Aug. 28.
• APSU will offer an online Master of Professional Studies in Strategic Leadership, in conjunction with the Regents Online Degree Program. The new degree is designed for full-time professionals who want to gain an advantage for promotional [...]

South University is launching a master of science in nursing degree (MSN), the institution’s fourth graduate degree offered online. The new degree program is designed for the registered nurse who already has a BSN degree and is interested in nursing education.
The new master’s degree program consists of 12 courses totaling 48 quarter hours, enabling students [...]

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 Bush administration study panel has withdrawn a proposal to eliminate most federally backed student aid after protests from colleges, students and banks.
“The current situation doesn’t allow the commission an opportunity to understand the details or defend the idea,” Charles Miller, chairman of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, wrote to fellow commissioners [...]

Jane Bishop, MA, Team Leader at HealthMark Multimedia, LLC, has been selected to present “Multiple paths to online assessment for nurses’ continuing education: Complementary Therapies & Cancer Care: online continuing education for nurses” at the upcoming national conference of the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT®) in Washington, DC, August 23-25.
Nurses’ interactive continuing education required [...]