Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Friday received a $1.5 million Economic Development Administration workforce development grant toward the construction of a Transportation Training Facility.
The approximate 25,000-square-foot workforce training facility is expected to result in 544 spin-off jobs including an $420 million in private investment.
The job and investment estimates are based on the college’s inquiry from about 15 [...]

Despite a growing number of options to finance a college education, students and parents are increasingly turning to loans.
Not only are students borrowing more money, but more of them are borrowing, according to data compiled by Nebraska’s Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education.
The news doesn’t sit well with Carna Pfeil, the commission’s associate director, who is [...]

A lack of clinical space, not students or faculty, prevents Marion Technical College from expanding its highly rated nursing program, which has a year-and-a-half waiting list of prospective pupils.
A class of 64 students Saturday graduated at MTC and will receive associate’s degrees in nursing as they prepare to take the NCLEX-RN state board licensure exam, [...]

Sinclair Community College will share in a $695,000 National Science Foundation Grant to help develop an associate degree program in computational science.
Sinclair is part of a statewide group that includes the Ohio Super Computer Center, Owens Community College near Toledo and Stark State College in Canton. The Ohio Super Computer Center will lead the project. [...]

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG - News) today awarded $1 million to Teach For America’s Connecticut region. Teach For America is the national corps of top college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational equity. The grant, to be [...]

The Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan, has awarded a $600,000 challenge grant to Mount Saint Mary College to help fund construction of its new Mathematics, Science & Technology Center and the expansion and renovation of its nursing laboratories.
In order to meet the challenge and receive the grant, the college must raise just over $2.2 million [...]

College students studying computer science may one day be able to bring their gaming hobbies and their studies together in the classroom.
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $150,000 to Scott Wallace, assistant professor of computer science at Washington State University Vancouver, and Andrew Nierman, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Puget [...]

Chris Franklin is a step ahead of many college students entering their freshmen year this fall. The 18-year-old, who will graduate from Morrisville Middle-Senior High School tonight, will start Penn State as a sophomore thanks to the dual enrollment grant program.
Through the grant, Chris and 21 of the 47 seniors at Morrisville High School have [...]

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.

Ulster County Community College has been awarded a $397,506 federal grant to help students meet academic performance goals and keep them from dropping out.
The grant was awarded under the U.S. Department of Education’s Strengthening Institutions Program.
“This is great news for Ulster County Community College,” U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a press release announcing [...]