Ashford University and Rio Salado College have partnered to offer aspiring teachers a new opportunity in online education. Ashford now offers a bachelor’s degree program designed to provide students with an accelerated way to earn their undergraduate degree and teaching certification.
“The partnership between Ashford University and Rio Salado College Online offers aspiring teachers an accelerated [...]

An American Heart Association survey found that patients who used the association’s online heart disease education program were more aware of treatment options than Internet-using patients who did not use the association’s program.
Those who used the free, patient-friendly Heart Profilers(R) — an Internet-based education program that guides people through treatment options for various conditions-were also [...]

Lawmakers from all corners of Oregon are backing a new approach to college financial aid as the elixir to the state’s college-affordability woes.
But the plan is running into an affordability gap of its own, after fiscal analysts found that the costs could be 30 percent higher than originally thought.
On Friday, the House Education Committee unanimously [...]

Albright College plans to start an expansion and renovation of its science building this fall, the school announced Saturday.
In 2005, the college announced plans to build a science building on its campus at 13th and Union streets.
But now Albright plans instead to more than double the size of its Merner-Pfeiffer Hall of Science.
The four-story [...]

State Attorney General Bill McCollum sent a questionnaire to all Florida public colleges and universities.
The questionnaire asks if preferred lenders have offered them any incentives and to disclose their relationships with lenders. The attorney general says these types of practices keep schools from objectively providing students with fair choices and some students agree.
“It puts them [...]

Wading into a roaring national controversy, Attorney General Martha Coakley is investigating whether Massachusetts colleges have improper relationships with loan companies, her office said yesterday.
“Every prospective student deserves a fair chance of financing a college education,” she said in a statement.
Several other attorneys general, most notably Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, as well as [...]

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is switching to a new Web site that lists the top financial institutions that have loaned students money in the past after severing its relationship with a company as a “preferred lender,” college officials said.
Last month, UWO scrapped its preferred lender list for students seeking financial aid following local and national [...]

Though much news recently has focused on the problems in selecting a student-loan provider — thanks to allegations that some lenders and financial-aid offices have been in cahoots — for many students graduating this spring, the larger issue is how to pay back all that debt.
It’s no small matter. The median debt load for graduates [...]

With the student-loan industry coming under harsh criticism, the House easily approved a bill yesterday aimed at curbing conflicts of interest and corrupt practices in college lending.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been leading an investigation into the $85 billion industry that has turned up evidence that some colleges received a percentage of loan [...]

Q. I will be attending college in the fall, and like many other graduating seniors I am worried about managing my finances. I plan to attend the School of Visual Arts and, like many art conservatories, it is very expensive. I have no job experience or a savings or checking account, and I know [...]

With the media focusing on high levels of student debt and potential conflicts of interest between universities and student-loan companies, figuring out how to pay the college bills may be more stressful than usual this year.
So today I’m starting a series of columns in which I’ll tell you how [...]

A 75-year-old reader whose daughter-in-law is due to give birth next week wants to the best way to give $12,000 to her future grandson to start a college fund.
One of her concerns is making sure that the money goes for education expenses.
You have some options. You can write a check to the child or [...]