U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Thursday announced a $142,000 grant to Three Rivers Community College to help improve academic programs, upgrade management and enhance fiscal stability.
The college will use its funds to improve student success through faculty and staff professional development training.
Ulster County Community College has been awarded a $397,506 federal grant to help students meet academic performance goals and keep them from dropping out.
The grant was awarded under the U.S. Department of Education’s Strengthening Institutions Program.
“This is great news for Ulster County Community College,” U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a press release announcing […]
The board of trustees of the K.T. Wiedemann Foundation has awarded a $500,000 conditional grant to the Butler Community College Foundation.
The money will go toward building a new cultural arts center on Butler’s El Dorado campus. It’s being paid for through private funding.
In order to receive the money from the Wiedemann Foundation, […]
A federal grant worth $810,000 will support construction costs for a new Transportation Technology Center on the campus of Davidson County Community College.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce will fund about half the anticipated costs of constructing the new single-story, 9,100-square-foot building. The college will provide the balance of the needed money. […]
YOU Inc. has been awarded a $1 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a three-way partnership aimed at helping low-income students in Southbridge public schools go to college. Nichols College in Dudley is also involved.
Coined Southbridge Upward Bound, up to 50 freshmen at Southbridge High School, whose parents did not attend […]
Mesa Public Schools has received a grant worth $900,000 over three years to train up to 24 teachers assigned to bioscience courses and to provide support for students researching the genome of a bacterium.
The Science Foundation Arizona grant will provide training for teachers at Mesa, Red Mountain, Mountain View, Westwood and Dobson high schools. Some […]
The Victoria College is offering summer programs to help out high school students who are not college-ready and middle school students who excel in class.
VC received a grant from the Texas Higher Education Board that will allow it to offer a program called Summer Scholars to upcoming 11th-graders.
“It is a four-week program, and what we […]
Parents and grandparents have already stashed more than $100 billion in 529 state college saving and prepaid tuition plans. And since Congress last year made the federal tax benefits of these plans permanent, interest in them has grown.
But picking a plan can be daunting — and not just because of the variety of investment choices […]
The J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation is donating $10 million to help jump-start the College of Western Idaho in the Treasure Valley. “We can’t say enough about the citizens of the Treasure Valley who last week showed their support for a comprehensive community college in this valley,” Joe Scott, chairman of the J.A. […]
An $800,000 grant to Georgia College & State University will fund an academic and enrichment program for middle and high school students in Baldwin County, the college announced Tuesday.
The Georgia Department of Education Century Community Learning Centers grant is set to be awarded for a five-year period, provided the Georgia State Board of Education gives […]
A $211,000 state grant to Universal Supply Co. of Deptford developed by the Gloucester County College Continuing Education Division makes training courses available to Universal employees through the college’s Business and Industry Training Center.
The state Department of Labor and Workforce Development grant, which runs until October, offers employees specialized instruction in areas such as computer […]
A $1.6 million Economic Development Administration grant to the Hocking College Energy Institute, Ohio has been announced by U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez. The Hocking College Energy Institute will be the lab where technicians in the alternative energy areas of fuel cells, wind and solar power, bio fuels, and hybrid vehicles will train.