Archive for the 'College Grant' Category

Million Dollar Grant Could Create 200 Jobs in Burke County

Instead of pouring out, money is pouring into Burke County/… one million dollars to be exact.
The grant was awarded to the county and Western Piedmont Community College.
It will help pay for the construction of the Allied Health and Science Higher Education Center.
The new facility acts as a training facility for health care workers.

June 27th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

$23,000 grant to help minority nurse students

D’Youville College has received a $23,555 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo to help prepare minority students who want to enroll in the nursing program.
The five-week program will be developed this fall and will be offered to 15 students during the summer of 2008.
The program will prepare students for the demands of college […]

June 27th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

LaRoche College gets grant to buy surgical mannequins

Nursing students at LaRoche College near Pittsburgh will soon have two new patients on which to practice their craft.
The Buhl Foundation has given the school a $96,000 grant to buy two software-controlled mannequins.
The mannequins will be used in a mock operating room to help students learn how to administer anesthesia under differing circumstances.

June 27th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Vaughn gets tutoring grant

A grant that will total $1.25 million over the next five years will enable Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Flushing to provide some local high schools with academic support services.
The federal grant, which was given by the national Upward Bound Program, which provides after-school tutoring, will be for $250,000 during each of the […]

June 27th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Grant to Help Build College Health Building: Construction Begins in Sept. On Dallas Campus

Gaston College will receive a $1 million federal grant for a new health building, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and college President Patricia Skinner announced this week.
The grant is from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration and will go for site work and construction of the David Belk Cannon Health Education Institute on the Dallas […]

June 24th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Workforce development grant to bring approximatley 544 jobs to area

Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Friday received a $1.5 million Economic Development Administration workforce development grant toward the construction of a Transportation Training Facility.
The approximate 25,000-square-foot workforce training facility is expected to result in 544 spin-off jobs including an $420 million in private investment.
The job and investment estimates are based on the college’s inquiry from about 15 […]

June 24th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Marion Technical College passing with great success

A lack of clinical space, not students or faculty, prevents Marion Technical College from expanding its highly rated nursing program, which has a year-and-a-half waiting list of prospective pupils.
A class of 64 students Saturday graduated at MTC and will receive associate’s degrees in nursing as they prepare to take the NCLEX-RN state board licensure exam, […]

June 15th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Sinclair receives part of $700K science grant

Sinclair Community College will share in a $695,000 National Science Foundation Grant to help develop an associate degree program in computational science.
Sinclair is part of a statewide group that includes the Ohio Super Computer Center, Owens Community College near Toledo and Stark State College in Canton. The Ohio Super Computer Center will lead the project. […]

June 15th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Teach For America Helps Close the Largest Achievement Gap in the Nation, Placing Teachers in Three Connecticut School Districts This Fall

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG - News) today awarded $1 million to Teach For America’s Connecticut region. Teach For America is the national corps of top college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity. The grant, to be […]

June 15th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Mount Saint Mary College Awarded $600,000 Kresge Challenge Grant

The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan, has awarded a $600,000 challenge grant to Mount Saint Mary College to help fund construction of its new Mathematics, Science & Technology Center and the expansion and renovation of its nursing laboratories.
In order to meet the challenge and receive the grant, the college must raise just over $2.2 million […]

June 15th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

NSF Grant Aims to Bring Computer Games to College Classrooms

College students studying computer science may one day be able to bring their gaming hobbies and their studies together in the classroom.
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $150,000 to Scott Wallace, assistant professor of computer science at Washington State University Vancouver, and Andrew Nierman, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Puget […]

June 15th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education

Students get head start on college

Chris Franklin is a step ahead of many college students entering their freshmen year this fall. The 18-year-old, who will graduate from Morrisville Middle-Senior High School tonight, will start Penn State as a sophomore thanks to the dual enrollment grant program.
Through the grant, Chris and 21 of the 47 seniors at Morrisville High School have […]

June 15th, 2007 - Posted in College Grant, Education