Oklahoma City University School of Law launched a study-abroad program this month with one of China’s most prestigious law schools. An agreement between OCU and Nankai University School of Law in Tianjin, China, culminated one year of negotiations for a “Summer Institute for International Law,” which focuses on international and comparative law.
Four OCU law students [...]

Engineers from New Jersey American Water shared their expertise with aspiring seventh and eighth grade engineers from across the state at the National Engineering Week Future Cities Competition, held on Saturday, January 17, on the Busch Campus at Rutgers University.
“Water and the Economy” is the focus of this year’s Future Cities Competition. The students, who [...]

City National Bank is now accepting applications from educators for grants to support literacy-based projects at elementary, middle and high schools in California, New York and Nevada.
The online application can be accessed by visiting http://www.readingisthewayup.org/literacy.asp. Any full-time teacher, librarian, administrator or school media specialist at a school in the county of New York, or in [...]

It is back-to-school time and many young people are saying goodbye to their families and heading off to college. Others, however, are making the journey alone: thousands of foster care teens who have “aged out” of the system. For many of these youth, education has been the one promising constant in their lives – and [...]

Stacy Maciuk, a 24-year-old who went through Tennessee’s foster care system, lobbied the state’s General Assembly as a college student in support of a foster child tuition grant program.
The Nashville resident said her argument to lawmakers was simple: Invest in these youths now or pay for them later to be in prison, on welfare or [...]

Attorney General Troy King issued an opinion this month saying a scholarship program that has used $500,000 in Anniston city funds to help high school students pay for college is unconstitutional and should be stopped.
The Anniston City Schools Foundation Next Start scholarships have helped 480 Anniston High School graduates go to college since 1998, but [...]

The Catholic Schools Foundation held its 17th Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Dinner celebration at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on March 28. Troy Brown, wide receiver for the New England Patriots and trustee of the Catholic Schools Foundation was the evening’s featured speaker.
The dinner is held annually to celebrate and support the Inner-City Scholarship Fund [...]

Mayor Sheila Dixon joined representatives from Hilton Hotels Corporation, the National Academy Foundation, CollegeBound Foundation and the Baltimore Hotel Corporation, at Digital Harbor High School in Federal hill to announce that the Hilton Hotels Corporation has established the Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel Scholarship Fund.
Executives from Hilton Hotels Corporation, which will operate and manage [...]

City leaders want Matt Atkinson’s name to live on in Green Bay for generations, but in order for that to happen they need to raise more money.
On September 14 last year, Atkinson told school staff at Green Bay East High School about an attack three of his peers were planning.
Police arrested East students William Cornell [...]

Lawyer Sheryl N. Young was a young mom when she began attending Oklahoma City University School of Law in the late 1980s. Today she is a shareholder at McAfee & Taft in Oklahoma City.
“The Sumners Scholarship and the evening program at OCU gave me the opportunity to go to law school as a then single [...]