Archive for March, 2009

Grantham University Goes Extra Mile For Military Veterans

When it comes to serving the troops who serve our country, Grantham University has never been one to fall short — just a few months ago, the school was named as one of the Top 20 military-friendly schools our country has to offer. Still, this is not a school content to rest on its laurels, [...]

Virtual Schools To Help Manage Budget Cuts

According to an article for Florida’s WFTV Action 9 news, the state’s central region has been suffering from recent budget cuts within the education system that have led to the loss of whole classes and summer school sessions. With these detrimental slashes being made, schools and parents are now looking toward online alternatives to fill [...]

Online MBAs: A Lifestyle Decision

An MBA can be essential to moving up in one’s career, but it doesn’t mean it’s easy to achieve. Whether it’s business travel takes you far away from potential grounded classes for weeks at a time, or just the financial strain of supporting yourself or a family while taking time off from work for college, [...]

Surviving the April Before College in Five Easy Steps

The last couple months before summer vacation can be wildly stressful for high school seniors anticipating college. On the one hand, acceptance and rejection letters start rolling in; on the other, there are still spring semester grades to keep level (lest a dropped GPA make your top school choices rethink their decisions). Meanwhile, there are [...]

Two Universities in Northwest To Establish Green Building Research Divisions

Environmentalism is not just an ideal — in this country, at least, it’s becoming a huge industry as well. Several schools are taking distinct notice of this and working it into their curriculum, most recently Oregon State University and Portland State University, pooling together $1.6 million to fund green building research programs for each of [...]

Economic Crisis and the End of Prepaid College Tuition Plans

Just what we needed, more complications springing up from the steady rise of college tuition costs! This time, the problem is with a form of 529 investment plan called the pre-paid college tuition plan. The idea was that parents could put money into a trust fund, a little at a time over many years (like [...]

South Carolina Broadcasters Association Scholarship

South Carolina students who are looking to pursue a career in broadcasting will have an opportunity to apply for a scholarship being offered by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association.
South Carolina’s television and radio journalists are celebrating a milestone they hope will help the state’s broadcasting students.
The South Carolina Broadcasters Association said Tuesday it had reached [...]

Graduation Rate Gap Widens at State Universities

According to new study findings released today, African-American students are falling farther and farther behind their peers in graduation rates at state universities in Maryland, even in spite of the universities’ best efforts to work against such an outcome.
The state university system reported that 40 percent of black students earn a degree within six [...]

University of Arizona Loses Colleges

University of Arizona is feeling the crunch when it comes to budgets.  These cutbacks are having a negative impact on staff, and threaten the existence of college programs.

Cutting 20 percent from the University of Arizona budget would be the equivalent of closing six colleges within the school, university officials said in a letter sent to [...]

Scholarships for Mental Healthcare Professionals

New York state is facing a critical shortage of qualified child psychiatrists and mental health care workers.  The state has children and adolescents who are in need of mental health care, but rural and urban areas are experiencing a shortage of available practitioners.  To counteract this shortage, the nursing school at the University of Rochester [...]