Just like every other high-profile college football prospect, Terry Grant felt a little pressure coming out of high school.
But Grant wasn’t just feeling pressure from the teams that were recruiting him. The Lumberton, Miss. native was also feeling it from the community.
“People would call me all the time saying ‘you need to got to MSU’, [...]
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, [...]
Today Amcore Bank dished out 250-thousand dollars to help fund a program aimed at expanding the Rockford campus.
The 58-thousand square foot expansion among other things, will include a new pharmacy program, a renovated auditorium, and a new library.
The measure would enable more seniors to continue living in their own homes by allowing caregivers who aren’t related to them to apply for aid under the Pennsylvania Family Caregiver Support Program, said Rep. Phyllis Mundy, D-Kingston, the bill sponsor.
Ms. Mundy is chairwoman of the House Aging and Older Adult Services Committee.
In existence since 1990, [...]
With college costs continuing to rise, parents and students are increasingly turning to private lenders to cover the cost of tuition.
From 1995 to 2006, the amount of money borrowed from private lenders to pay for college rose from $1.3 billion to $17.3 billion, according to MSN Money columnist Liz Pulliam Weston. Why should this concern [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College has been awarded a $238,000 grant designed to broaden the employee pool for manufacturers in Western North Carolina. The money comes from Duke Energy Carolinas’ Community College Grant Program.
The Resurgent Manufacturing Initiative grant will be used to purchase a computer numerical control machine for machining technology, a coordinate measuring machine [...]
A $5 million grant will go toward creating a state-of-the-art learning facility on the Hyde Park campus of the Culinary Institute of America.
Thanks to a pledge from the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, the new Marriott Pavilion will feature interactive audience response technologies and video-conferencing capabilities. It will house a large auditorium, a [...]
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 [...]