More than 900 University of Wyoming first-year students are taking advantage of Hathaway Scholarships totaling approximately $2.4 million.
With the promise of financial aid, the confirmed new in-state freshman class is up 16 percent from a year ago, says Noah Buckley, interim director of admissions.
This fall 920 entering students are eligible for Hathaway Scholarship Merit Awards, [...]

DeVry University has appointed Craig Jacob as president of the school’s Phoenix Metro, which includes DeVry’s main Phoenix campus and center locations in Northeast Phoenix and Mesa. Jacob previously held senior-level administrative positions with the University of Phoenix’s Grand Rapids, Mich. and Phoenix campuses. Jacob assumes a role previously held by James Dugan, who has [...]

In an effort to improve the quality of health communication and health journalism in Los Angeles and across the country, The California Endowment has awarded two major grants to programs directed by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
The awards include a $3.5 million grant over three years to the USC [...]

MAXIMUS, a leading provider of government services, announced today that it received exceptional results under an independent review performed by The Lewin Group for its administration of California’s State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Healthy Families program with an error rate of just 0.04%.
Under the Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) program administered by the Centers [...]

The summer study abroad program is one of UD’s most successful and attractive programs and provides students with the unique opportunity to take time to expand their cultural horizons without leaving their education behind. Each year the program grows and improves, and this year is no exception, according to Sally Raymont, the program’s director.
Summer study [...]

Three professionals who work in the fields of finance or education tried to better prepare parents on what to expect to pay for college at the “ Paying for College Without Going Broke” seminar Tuesday evening at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Anne Butt, a Fayetteville High School college and career advisor, Bryan Hembree, director of academic [...]

Dyersburg State Community College was recently selected by the Tennessee Board of Regents to receive a $50,000 grant to fund dual enrollment scholarships for the upcoming school year.
Dual enrollment is a special enrollment status that allows high school students who meet certain academic standards to take college courses. Students who successfully complete the course work [...]

2Futuro is pleased to announce the awards of two scholarships of $1,000 each to Mayra Alvarez, a student at California State University, Los Angeles, and Jason Gates, a student at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. They are the first recipients of scholarships awarded through random monthly drawings that 2Futuro conducts [...]

The Victoria College is offering summer programs to help out high school students who are not college-ready and middle school students who excel in class.
VC received a grant from the Texas Higher Education Board that will allow it to offer a program called Summer Scholars to upcoming 11th-graders.
“It is a four-week program, and what we [...]

The director of student financial services at Johns Hopkins University has resigned — nearly a month after a nationwide probe of the student-loan industry revealed she was accepting fees and graduate-school tuition payments from a lender.
Ellen Frishberg, director of student financial services at the Homewood campus since 1989, resigned Friday, a university spokesman said.
She had [...]