University of Texas Announces New Bachelor’s Degree Completion Programs

The University of Texas (UT) says that millions of Texans have started college, but never completed a bachelor’s degree. The census statistics appear to back UT’s analysis up: in 2000 29% of the population had some college credits but no degree, or had made it to the associate’s level but not beyond. Commuting [...]

Entrepreneurship Degree Planned at New College Institute

In the state of Virginia, Martinsville’s infrastructure is in trouble. Due to the loss of many manufacturing jobs in the area, the city contains the highest unemployment percentage in the state. City officials realize that, as factory jobs are increasingly taken over by foreign or robotic hands, many of those jobs will not be recovered [...]

Oregon State University Adds Degrees to Business College

Good news for business-minded students in Oregon! The Oregon State Board of Higher Education has just approved the addition of four new degrees to the business school curriculum at Oregon State University.
Originally, states the Portland Business Journal, the only specialized business bachelor degree offered by the school was an accounting degree. This creates a [...]

Iowa Community College opens Blended Bachelor’s Degree Program

There has been a fair amount of academic teeth-gnashing over the future role of community colleges in this country’s educational hierarchy. President Obama’s higher education initiative focuses in large part on community colleges, but leaves open the particulars of just how they are going to jack up the percentage of degree-carrying adults over the [...]

Professor Argues The Merits of the Three Year Degree

For most colleges, it’s a fairly cut-and-dry set of options: the two-year associate degree, or the four-year bachelor degree. Which do you choose? What if there was a third choice? What if you could obtain a more focused, direct form of the bachelor degree program, with all of the well-rounded higher level education but none [...]

Green Degrees Gather Momentum in Business

Environmentalism is no longer just a trend: it’s a way of life that is permeating every facet of our culture, from food to fashion to civil engineering. In this social climate, one of the hottest diplomas to lay claim to is an environmental science degree, and nowadays it’s not just for biologists and park rangers. [...]

Study Predicts California Facing Shortage of College Graduates for Workforce

California has one of the lowest college enrollment rates in the nation, and that’s a statistic that could come back to haunt it. According to a report released yesterday, by 2025 California may face a shortage of up to a million college graduates needed to support the state’s skilled workforce demands.
Unless policy changes are [...]

Scholarship for Game Developers

Are you looking to pursue a career in game development?  Employment in this field is on the rise due to consumers demand for new games and technology.  For those looking to earn a bachelors degree in game technology, the Entertainment Software Association announced that will continue to offer scholarships.
The Entertainment Software Association’s charitable arm, the [...]

Barack Obama Says College Education for All

President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress last week to speak about his views on higher education.  The President wants all Americans to pursue some kind of education beyond high school.  But the big question is – how?

It’s an ambitious goal – some might say impossible. Currently, only two of every five American adults [...]

Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Foundation Scholarship

There are more and more industry specific scholarships available these day.  And not all of them are necessarily for the kind of student on a four year track for a bachelors degree. Were you a big fan of metal shop in high school? well, if you have ever considered a career in metal fabrication, welding [...]