The City College of New York is expanding a scholarship program for city public school students with the help of a $7 million grant from two alumnae.
The donation by Larry and Yvette Gralla helped CCNY top its goal of raising $150 million in a capital campaign announced in fall 2004. The scholarship program will begin [...]

The Lincoln County Family and Community Education Council is offering two scholarships for students from Lincoln County.
The $300 Agriculture/Family & Consumer Science scholarship is provided for any high school senior from Lincoln County who plans to pursue a degree in family & consumer science or agriculture at an accredited four year college in Nebraska or [...]

The Lincoln City Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) contributed $4,000 to the Oregon Coast Community College Foundation for four $1,000 scholarships for female students at OCCC. Tabitha Arnold of Lincoln City is the fourth receipt to be awarded for the 2005 -06 school term. The previous AAUW recipients, Karla Schafer, Melissa [...]

The City Middle and Higher Education Agency has begun sister school programs between state and private schools across Jakarta in a bid to minimize the gap in quality between the two.
“Unlike state schools that are homogenous in the quality of their education, private schools were more heterogenous. There are those that provide very high quality [...]

Ephraim McDowell Health is accepting applications for a health care scholarship for the fall 2009-spring 2010 school year. Scholarships are available to high school seniors or college students from Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Mercer and Washington counties. The application deadline is Feb. 15.
To be eligible for the scholarship, high school students must be in the [...]

The U.S. Conference of Mayors has recognized Verizon with the Outstanding Award in Public/Private Partnerships for joining with the city of Los Angeles to expand an innovative after-school program to more inner-city schools.
At a Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington on Sunday (Jan. 18), Verizon was honored for providing $1 million to support expansion of [...]

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 [...]

Whether your home is small or large, an apartment in the city or a country cottage, it is a space that should be at once beautiful and livable. The key to that is managing the upkeep without feeling flustered. Until now, there has never been a comprehensive resource that not only tells how to [...]

Four years of research and writing, four months of wearying travel on the 2008 campaign, and four days of excruciating all-night editing have produced a book that is already a bestseller that raises new questions about Senator Barack Obama’s fitness for the presidency. This is the first book to impartially and independently analyze Obama’s [...]

Democratic National Convetion 2008 is a photographic tribute of the DNC in Denver. For one memorable week in the summer of 2008, the ambitions of a groundbreaking politician and a rising city matched perfectly. US senator Barack Obama, the first African American presidential nominee of a major political party, made his way west to [...]