New York artist Arthur Robins and his publisher, poolpaintings.com (a division of Gallery Diamante, Carmel) are releasing a commemorative poster that benefits the Billiards Education Foundation scholarship. The poster commemorates the Billiards Congress of America National 8-Ball Championships taking place at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, May 14-22.
The Billiard Education Foundation (BEF) [...]

Adding to its extensive line of mortgage publications, websites, database products, and proprietary research for the mortgage market, SourceMedia’s Mortgage Group, publisher of National Mortgage News and BrokerUniverse, announced today the launch of Mortgage University, an array of correspondence and online courses designed to fulfill the professional education and compliance needs of mortgage professionals. Mortgage [...]

The College of Education recently received a $100,000 pledge to establish a middle grades education scholarship, officials announced.
Jim and Evelyn Kirkland of Lumberton have committed to give $20,000 a year over the next five years to establish the scholarship.
The Kirklands are graduates of East Carolina University. Jim Kirkland received his bachelor’s degree in 1962, and [...]

The Idaho Board of Education wants the Legislature to create need-based scholarships as early as 2008 so that more of the state’s students can get a college degree.
Similar scholarship proposals failed during the 2006 Legislature, but backers want to try again in the 2007 session, which starts in January.
The Board of Education created a financial [...]

Applications for a number of School of Education and private scholarships are now being accepted for the 2007 – 2008 academic year. Students must be enrolled in the Fall Term 2007 to be eligible. More information on eligibility requirements and application procedures are included below:
Alumni Doctoral Fellowships – Merit-based stipends of up to $5,000 per [...]

Partnership Enables More Than 13 Million Unique Visitors to Learn More About Educational Opportunities
ClassesUSA®, an Experian company, and WorldNow’s Local Media Network (LMN) today announced a new advertising and content partnership. Users on more than 100 local station Web sites now have access to ClassesUSA’s vast higher-education information while providing a new revenue stream for [...]

ALM’s Law.com® and LexisNexis, a leading provider of information and services solutions, today announced an alliance that will expand and enhance online continuing legal education options for attorneys.
Under the agreement, the Law.com CLE Center will become the exclusive source for LexisNexis Mealey’s(TM) online CLE courses, providing lawyers with a single Web destination that delivers a [...]

“Stem cells,” Sonia Wallman said with a sigh. The issue of stem cell research was very much in the news on the day I stopped by to visit Wallman at the Pease campus of N.H. Community Technical College, where Wallman directs the Biotechnology Education and Technology Center.
While President Bush vetoed a bill, his first in [...]

Good news for student loan borrowers across the nation — Congress has repealed the “Single Holder Rule”, allowing any student loan borrower to consolidate their student loans with American Education Services (AES). Under the Single Holder Rule, borrowers whose federal student loans were held by one lender were only able to consolidate their loans with [...]

USA TODAY Education, the arm of the USA TODAY brand that develops and delivers educational products and resources to students and educators nationwide, has launched a national initiative in partnership with FYI-Film Your Issue, inviting college students to write about their views on major issues for possible publication online and in the print edition.
“Write Your [...]