The Gemological Institute of America’s fifth annual Richard T. Liddicoat Scholarship Fund Campaign is now underway and will run through December. Contributors will be helping qualified individuals build their careers in the gem and jewelry industry.
The RTL Scholarship Fund was created by the GIA Alumni Association in 2003 to honor Liddicoat, GIA’s longtime president and [...]

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Thursday announced a $142,000 grant to Three Rivers Community College to help improve academic programs, upgrade management and enhance fiscal stability.
The college will use its funds to improve student success through faculty and staff professional development training.

The federal Education Department, criticized for lax oversight of student loans, released proposed rules on Friday that would set new standards for universities and ban lenders’ marketing practices that have resulted, in some cases, in loan company payoffs to university officials.
The 225-page package of rules represents a change in direction by the department, which for [...]

The Bush administration, fending off criticism that it has failed to provide adequate oversight to the student loan industry, proposed regulations yesterday that would prohibit lenders from showering universities with gifts to drum up business.
The rules, announced by the Education Department, amount to the administration’s strongest response so far to a nationwide investigation of the [...]

The federal Education Department, criticized for lax oversight of student loans, released proposed rules on Friday that would set new standards for universities and ban lenders’ marketing practices that have resulted, in some cases, in loan company payoffs to university officials.
The 225-page package of rules represents a change in direction by the department, which for [...]

The U.S. Education Department has proposed new rules to police the $85 billion student loan industry, it was reported Saturday.
An inspector general, Democratic lawmakers and even some loan-industry officials have criticized the Education Department for lax oversight of student loans.
Under new rules proposed Friday, universities would have to include at least three loan companies on [...]

Money from an anonymous donor in Lakeland is funding a full scholarship for a fellowship in integrative medicine to be granted to a physician serving socio-economically disadvantaged patients in the area.
The dollar amount of the donation to the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine wasn’t disclosed. It will fund the Brenda Craft Service [...]

The Justice Department is reviewing an audit that found hundreds of millions of dollars have been improperly paid to a student loan company, House Education Committee chairman George Miller said yesterday.
Miller, a California Democrat, made the review public during a hearing in which he pressed Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on her decision to ignore a [...]

The Justice Department is reviewing an audit that shows hundreds of (m) millions of dollars have been improperly paid to a student loan company.
The audit was made public by House Education Committee Chairman George Miller at a hearing today. It was conducted by the Education Department’s inspector general, who recommended the 278 (m) million dollars [...]

The McKinney Education Foundation has received 343 scholarship applications this year, a record number for the organization.
Darrell Slabaugh, MEF executive director, said last year the MEF received 267 applications and awarded about 200 scholarships to students. He said with college becoming more expensive, more students are applying for scholarships.
“Kids are understanding the increasing cost of [...]