By Evelyn Napier Gender Inequality and the Problem of Student Debt If you are woman who has decided to return to college to study for the profession of your choosing, earn a better salary or enjoy more equitable conditions than you may be experiencing in your current workplace, it is important to realize that gender inequality continues to be [...]
Continue reading...By Evelyn Napier When many people think of college life they picture all night parties, fraternities and chaotic dorms. What they probably don’t picture are middle aged students meandering their way through campuses and lecture theaters or perhaps even living in the same halls. And yet in reality the image of the archetypal college student (fresh out of [...]
Continue reading...Impact of Sequestration on the Federal Student Aid Programs On August 2, 2011, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011, which put into place automatic federal budget cuts, known as a “sequester,” to take effect if Congress failed to enact legislation to reduce the federal deficit by March 1, 2013. Because Congress did not act, these [...]
Continue reading...YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The Air Force has joined the Marines and the Army in dropping tuition assistance due to sweeping federal budget cuts. Word of the decision began trickling down to the Pacific on Tuesday morning. During a commander’s call at Yokota Air Base, 374th Airlift Wing commander Col. Mark August told airmen [...]
Continue reading...WIESBADEN, Germany — The Army announced Friday it is suspending its tuition assistance program for soldiers newly enrolling in classes due to sequestration and other budgetary pressures. “This suspension is necessary given the significant budget execution challenges caused by the combined effects of a possible year-long continuing resolution and sequestration,” Paul Prince, an army personnel [...]
Continue reading...WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week and a trend reading hit a near five-year low, pointing to ongoing healing in the labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 366,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The prior week’s claims figure was revised to show 3,000 [...]
Continue reading...Average tuition prices rose sharply again this fall as colleges passed much of the burden of their own financial problems on to recession-battered students and parents. Average tuition at four-year public colleges rose 6.5 percent, or $429, to $7,020 this fall, according to the College Board’s annual “Trends in College Pricing” report, released Tuesday. At private [...]
Continue reading...The University of Colorado Boulder is a leader in sustainability. One of the key areas for any sustainability program is technology. Devices and services consume huge amounts of electricity and need to be refreshed every two to four years. It’s a drain on budgets and the environment. Read more here http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2013/01/how-university-colorado-saved-12000-trees-and-cut-costs-55-percent-green-technology Collegecomplete.com
Continue reading...TROY, N.Y. — Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world’s best human “Jeopardy!” champions, is going to college. IBM is announcing Wednesday that it will provide a Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first time the computer is being sent to a university. Just like the flesh-and-blood students who will work on it, Watson is [...]
Continue reading...At first it was computers, then healthcare and now…is the next big thing drone pilot? Schools are always trying to stay on the cutting edge…able to produce students who are easily employable. Now over 300 have received permission to fly unmanned aircraft. Ever have an idea of what you think the next big thing [...]
Continue reading...This month high-school seniors have been frantically submitting their college applications for the January deadlines. Students aspire for acceptance into a reputable college, yet how do they determine which one is the best for them? Many of them turn for guidance to U.S. News & World Report and other resources that rank institutions. Unfortunately, those “one size [...]
Continue reading...Each year since 1966, UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute has conducted a massive survey of incoming freshmen at four-year colleges, asking questions about their motivations, their plans and their political views. Typically, big shifts are only apparent over long time periods. But sometimes economic and political currents can lead new college students to give responses [...]
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Continue reading...The last few years haven’t exactly been gentle to our public colleges and universities, or the students who attend them. Cash-poor state legislatures have gone to town on their higher education budgets, and as they’ve hacked away, tuition has risen along with the sums undergraduates have had to borrow. In total, 38 states cut post-secondary funding since the [...]
Continue reading...This year look for schools to become more independent as well as more competitive Watch for more regulation as agencies look to mitigate risk and assure quality and finally look for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) to expand rapidly. To learn more click here: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2013011612324585
Continue reading...Stevens-Henegar College is now a non-profit school as of January 1st, 2013. Call CollegeComplete.com at 877-543-2655 to find out about this and other schools.
Continue reading...Much discussion about higher education assumes that the children of wealthy parents have all the advantages, and they certainly have many. But a new study reveals an area where they may be at a disadvantage. The study found that the more money (in total and as a share of total college costs) that parents provide [...]
Continue reading...The bill that helped us claw back from the fiscal cliff, The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (yes, it was 2013 before it was passed), will have an affect on your financial aid. The American Opportunity Tax Credit, which allows you to take a tax credit of up to $2,500 and was set [...]
Continue reading...With the looming “Fiscal Cliff” ahead of us, arguments are coming from both sides. We hear back and forth about how much the tax rates should be on the “middle class” and how much they should be for income over $250,000, $500,000 or even a million. Some attention has been paid to the debt [...]
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