CEA, the leading global marketplace for quality study abroad programs for university and college students, announced today that it has named Dr. William Davey as Vice President of Academic Affairs. An internationally recognized expert in cross-cultural communications, Dr. Davey is charged with overseeing CEA’s academic initiatives and development with a particular focus on the signature [...]

College sophomores, juniors and seniors who want to study a language and live abroad starting any time after July 2009 for three months or for a full academic year should apply by March 1 for a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.
Interested students should look at the rotary.org Web site to download the Ambassadorial Scholarship [...]

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 [...]

Rosie Lopez, an educator and community advocacy leader, will be honored with the establishment of the Rosie Lopez Student Advocate Scholarship.
The Arizona Association of Chicanos in Higher Education created the scholarship to honor Lopez during the 20th anniversary of the Arizona Hispanic Community Forum, a volunteer-based advocacy group she formed in 1987. Thus far, more [...]

The new Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received first endowed student scholarship fund.
Janet Beachler Day of Lincoln, an alumna of the UNL College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, established the endowed fund with a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation. Annual income from the fund will be [...]

A new federal grant awarded to LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City will help provide increased educational services to veterans.
Recently, the college’s Veterans Program was awarded a $250,000 a year grant for the next five years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Veterans Upward Bound program.
For Samuel Farrell, [...]

The Poway offices of College Loan Corporation will reopen today for critical functions after being closed on Monday and Tuesday due to the wildfires that have threatened the area. The Company plans to fully open the facility by the end of the week.
“College Loan Corporation would like to extend its gratitude to all of California’s [...]

Mr. Micheál Martin TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, today announced the winners of the 2007 Science Foundation Ireland/Dell Young Women in Engineering Scholarship Awards. The award aims to encourage more female students into engineering as an undergraduate degree and future career.
The ten winners received their prizes from the Minister at a ceremony in [...]

The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College has been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to help more students become teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the university’s School of Education a $2.2 million five-year “Transition to Teaching” grant.
The grant is designed to implement a fast-track alternative teaching certificate program for recent college [...]

The University of Georgia Arch Foundation has established a scholarship fund to help UGA students study in other countries in honor of university President Michael Adams and his wife, Mary, both strong proponents of international education.
The foundation created the fund in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of Michael Adams appointment as UGA president.