A new federal grant awarded to LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City will help provide increased educational services to veterans.
Recently, the college’s Veterans Program was awarded a $250,000 a year grant for the next five years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Veterans Upward Bound program.
For Samuel Farrell, […]
A small private Catholic college is changing its name as it undergoes a major expansion.
Marian College President Daniel J. Elsener said the 70-year-old school will become The Marian University.
The name change coincides with a $100 million plan to expand the school’s campus on Indianapolis’ northwest side.
Elsener wants to build a new residence hall and athletic […]
The Poway offices of College Loan Corporation will reopen today for critical functions after being closed on Monday and Tuesday due to the wildfires that have threatened the area. The Company plans to fully open the facility by the end of the week.
“College Loan Corporation would like to extend its gratitude to all of California’s […]
The Good News is that there’s plenty of money out there for high school grads who want to continue their studies.
School board staff and trustees are entertained and informed prior to each bi-monthly meeting by delegations from schools with achievements to share.
It’s called “Good News from the Schools.â€
Tuesday night’s board meeting showcased some scholarship winners […]
Today Amcore Bank dished out 250-thousand dollars to help fund a program aimed at expanding the Rockford campus.
The 58-thousand square foot expansion among other things, will include a new pharmacy program, a renovated auditorium, and a new library.
Mr. Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, today announced the winners of the 2007 Science Foundation Ireland/Dell Young Women in Engineering Scholarship Awards. The award aims to encourage more female students into engineering as an undergraduate degree and future career.
The ten winners received their prizes from the Minister at a ceremony in […]
The measure would enable more seniors to continue living in their own homes by allowing caregivers who aren’t related to them to apply for aid under the Pennsylvania Family Caregiver Support Program, said Rep. Phyllis Mundy, D-Kingston, the bill sponsor.
Ms. Mundy is chairwoman of the House Aging and Older Adult Services Committee.
In existence since 1990, […]
With college costs continuing to rise, parents and students are increasingly turning to private lenders to cover the cost of tuition.
From 1995 to 2006, the amount of money borrowed from private lenders to pay for college rose from $1.3 billion to $17.3 billion, according to MSN Money columnist Liz Pulliam Weston. Why should this concern […]
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College has been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to help more students become teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the university’s School of Education a $2.2 million five-year “Transition to Teaching†grant.
The grant is designed to implement a fast-track alternative teaching certificate program for recent college […]
The community of Ralls continues to honor fallen soldier Sergeant Randell Olguin. At Friday’s football game, volunteers passed out red, white, and blue ribbons in memory of Olguin.
They also painted a giant ribbon in the middle of the field, and volunteers collected donations for a scholarship fund in Olguin’s name.
A $6.5 million gift from a retired business executive in Florida will allow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to create scholarships for science and engineering students.
Robert Weissman learned about the school through a column in the New York Times written by Thomas Friedman. The best selling author had previously written about the school’s president, Shirley Ann […]
The University of Georgia Arch Foundation has established a scholarship fund to help UGA students study in other countries in honor of university President Michael Adams and his wife, Mary, both strong proponents of international education.
The foundation created the fund in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of Michael Adams appointment as UGA president.