A final version of Senate Bill 177, that gives more affordable college education to veterans, passed both the Senate and House of Representatives Tuesday and now moves to the governor’s desk for signature into law.
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4/23/2013
The Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2013, which creates a new competitive Campus Fire Safety Education Grant Program at institutions of higher education, will increase fire safety awareness among college students and help improve their fire training.
4/23/2013
The governor's blueprint includes 10% increases in the number of transfer students from community colleges and the percentage of freshmen graduating within four years.
4/23/2013
With Boston in lockdown, area universities that would have welcomed prospective students had to recruit in creative ways.
4/23/2013
Following the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spent several seemingly typical days on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth before the FBI released photos of him as a suspect, according to friends and school officials.
4/23/2013
Within hours of last Monday's Boston Marathon bombing, a pair of college students had already scraped together a plan to raise money for victims and their families.
4/23/2013
Faced with declining faculty ranks in recent years, the University of Illinois plans to hire 500 new professors over the next five to seven years.
4/22/2013
Legislation that broadens the state’s Right to Know Law requirements on Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln universities won the House State Government Committee’s approval.
4/22/2013
Despite rising costs, several central Ohio college officials say a liberal-arts education has never been more important as employers complain that graduates lack communication, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
4/22/2013
Three months after the uproar over a $25,000 annual, unvouchered expense account for former Board of Regents President Robert Kennedy, the Higher Education Committee approved a bill which would eliminate such expense accounts and require state colleges and universities to document every expenditure by all employees.
4/22/2013
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 1076, ensuring, he said, that Florida students are prepared for college and careers and have the necessary skills to compete for jobs in a competitive global economy.
4/22/2013
MnSCU’s budget request is embroiled in legislators’ larger debate about whether higher education dollars ought to be spent on new programs — or on holding down tuition.
4/22/2013
A pension plan bill that Louisiana higher education leaders say is vital to their ability to attract new talent to the state cleared its second hurdle Monday.
4/21/2013
Connecticut university officials plan to vote on a proposal Tuesday that will raise the cost of college for in-state residents by 5.1 percent next fall and decrease the price for college-bound students from other states by 2.6 percent.
4/21/2013
Purdue University's decision to freeze tuition for the next two years is putting public scrutiny on policies at the state's other public universities, but many say they won't be pressured to follow suit.
