A $15,000 grant to a Macon State College program will be used to promote safer driving among college students.
The grant, from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, was awarded to the Macon State Student Life Wellness Program and will focus on the importance of wearing a seat belt and driving sober, according to a news [...]
The organizers of Massachusetts College Goal Sunday, a free-to-the-public, charitable effort to bring families of college-bound students together with financial aid professionals from colleges and universities across Massachusetts, today released statistics based on more than 500 responses from the 2006 program attendees. The responses indicate there is still a significant gap to close in [...]
Luzerne County Community College President Patricia Donohue posed for more than a minute Tuesday as she accepted a $50,000 novelty check. It’s the first of three such checks the school will get annually to help LCCC hire more nursing school teachers and to help alleviate a state shortage of nurses.
“You nurses think you have to [...]
As an undergraduate student at Smith College, Catherine Dignam got her first taste of the thrill of conducting scientific research.
She participated in two projects, including one in which she helped study samples of the varnish covering an African mask and determined that the wax was original.
“I really [...]
Students in the Ogden School District will get a boost on their road to college, courtesy of a $1.1 million federal grant.
Weber State University teamed up with the district to gain the Federal TRIO Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant will fund a program called Talent Search, which is designed to motivate and [...]
The YMCA of the USA has received a grant of $518,720 to initiate a YMCA Collegiate Achievers pilot program to improve college success rates for minority, low-income and first-generation college students by cultivating student leadership and strengthening connections among families, colleges and community-based organizations.
The grant was awarded by Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis- based, [...]
J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation has awarded Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell a $5 million per year Evergreen grant, plus an additional one-time $5 million grant to launch a $17 million fundraising campaign to renovate the school’s science facility.
The goal of both grants, according to university spokeswoman Beth Zborowski, is to support initiatives to [...]
A $3,000 grant will provide the literal seed money for a conifer garden at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s living laboratory south of the Williamsport main campus.
The college’s School of Natural Resources Management received a $1,500 Jean Iseli Memorial Award grant from the American Conifer Society, honoring the late founder of [...]
Spartanburg Community College has received a $284,470 grant from the South Carolina Department of Commerce to develop three demand-driven, blended-learning, apprenticeship programs with local government, business and industry partners.
“This grant will allow the college to develop apprenticeship programs to provide education and training opportunities for job seekers in the automotive manufacturing cluster,” David Just, vice-president [...]
J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation has awarded Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell a $5 million per year Evergreen grant, plus an additional one-time $5 million grant to launch a $17 million fundraising campaign to renovate the school’s science facility.
The goal of both grants, according to university spokeswoman Beth Zborowski, is to support initiatives to [...]
A $3,000 grant will provide the literal seed money for a conifer garden at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s living laboratory south of the Williamsport main campus.
The college’s School of Natural Resources Management received a $1,500 Jean Iseli Memorial Award grant from the American Conifer Society, honoring the late founder of [...]
Stanford University is preparing a plan to offer financial aid to international undergraduate students — an expensive and ambitious move that would open up a whole world, literally, of new applicants.
“We live in a global environment,” said Richard Shaw, Stanford’s dean of admissions and financial aid. “The idea that we can bring together the best [...]