Mars Hill College has received a $150,000 grant from the Cannon Foundation of Concord to provide laboratory equipment for the college’s new Ferguson Math and Science Center.
Ground was broken in early May for the new facility, which will double Mars Hill’s teaching facilities for math and science, meeting the college’s needs for educating future health [...]
Volunteer State Community College has received nearly $1 million in federal grant money to provide history education for teachers, college officials announced today.
The $998,508 grant, which is the largest in the history of the college, is earmarked for the Tennessee Educators’ Active Colloquia for History, or TEACH, program.
The money will be used to help the [...]
California Credit Union is pleased to announce the winners of its second annual California Credit Union College Scholarship Program. In an awards ceremony on Saturday, June 3, the credit union awarded $1,000 college scholarships to 35 deserving students. Two of the winners are already California Credit Union members.
Begun in 2005 with 25 scholarships, the California [...]
Robin Bundy, who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in IT at Capella University’s School of Business and Technology, has been awarded a Women in Technology scholarship from the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT).
Capella is an accredited online university and a leader in online education. Bundy decided to pursue an information technology online degree [...]
There’s a lot Kristin Bolig has to be nervous about now that she’s graduated college. Will she find a job both satisfying and well-paying? Will making friends be easy? East Coast, West Coast or somewhere in between? Buy or rent?
One thing is overshadowing the typical worries that come with beginning a new chapter in life. [...]
If you have a Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students, known as a PLUS loan, think about consolidating it.
PLUS loans are federally backed loans that help parents pay for college costs that aren’t covered by financial aid. The loans are in the parents’ names and are their responsibility. Most lenders let parents defer repaying the loan [...]
Blinn College was selected as one of 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities nationwide to receive the 2006 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.
During the 2006-07 academic year, grant projects through this program will impact more than 4,000 students. [...]
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grants 93 scholarships for Kazakhstan students, candidates for master’s degree, postgraduates and scientists for 2006/2007academic year, representatives of German Embassy told today in Almaty. The certificate-giving ceremony has taken place in Kazakh-German University.
DAAD unites all the German higher institutions and supports international academic exchange on the account of public funds [...]
The BellSouth Foundation today announced that the University of Florida College of Education will receive a $600,000 grant to develop a comprehensive strategy for measuring and assessing the outcomes of the BellSouth 20/20 Vision for Education initiative. The $20M initiative commemorates the Foundation’s 20th anniversary and is designed to bring engaging, rigorous, online instruction to [...]
Mohave Community College was selected as one of 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities nationwide to receive the 2006 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.
During the 2006-07 academic year, grant projects through this program will impact more than 4,000 [...]
College plans to graduate 38 additional registered nurses by 2008
With a critical need for more registered nurses, Antelope Valley College has been given a $512,787 state grant that should allow the school to get 38 more students through its associate-degree nursing program by June 2008.
The money from the office of the California Community Colleges will [...]
Around this time of the year, anxious high school students find out whether they’ve been accepted by the college of their choice. For their parents, there’s the added anxiety of how to pay for that college education.
If you’ve got college loans, the magic date is July 1 — when the interest rates are set to [...]