Daily News

4/17/2013
Kristine Duffy, vice president of enrollment management at Onondaga Community College (N.Y.), has been appointed the new president of Adirondack Community College, in Queensbury, N.Y., just outside of Glens Falls.
4/17/2013
When the Ohio University Board of Trustees meets Friday, it will be asked to approve a 1.6 percent tuition increase for undergraduates on the Athens campus, as well as an increase in room and board rates.
4/17/2013
Forty percent of Colorado’s class of 2011 enrolled in a Colorado college or university needed remedial education courses in at least one subject in order to catch up to college-level work, according to a report from the Department of Higher Education.
4/17/2013
Mississippi's Higher Ed commissioner said no school would see cuts in funding in Fiscal Year 2014 — the first year of a three-year phase-in — if a proposed plan is approved. He said all schools would receive more state allocation than this fiscal year.
4/17/2013
So far in 2013, there have been at least 13 shootings on or directly adjacent to a college campus, including an incident Monday night at Grambling State University in Louisiana.
4/17/2013
Increased financial literacy and guidance from universities are critical to lessen the burgeoning costs of higher education, a panel of students and education experts told a Senate committee.
4/17/2013
Pima Community College has been placed on probation after a scathing report about the college that included claims about sexual misconduct and a culture of fear among employees.
4/17/2013
Wittenberg University leaders will soon decide which 29 of the current 141 faculty positions should be cut to help address the university’s $7 million budget shortfall.
4/17/2013
After 26 people were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December, we advocated against armed officers in every school. We stand by that. But arming officers at a college or university is different.
4/17/2013
In an effort to maintain the maximum grant of $5,550 per academic year, Congress opted to eliminate four qualifications for the program, making an estimated 145,000 students suddenly ineligible for funds. In addition, students are no longer eligible to receive their Pell Grants during the summer semester.
4/17/2013
Bon Appétit and FRN will join forces in recovering surplus food that would otherwise be wasted from campus dining halls and delivering it to local shelters to combat hunger in the surrounding community.
4/17/2013
Through this agreement, Chegg customers will be able to receive payments through the company’s textbook buyback program exclusively through Serve from American Express.
4/17/2013
CollegeNET, a provider of Web-based on-demand technologies for higher education, has helped Cornell University Graduate School improve efficiencies and cut paper consumption using its Admit online application evaluation system.
4/17/2013
Rackspace Hosting the open cloud company, and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have deployed an advanced academic research software platform designed to revolutionize the way scientists and scholars use technology to accelerate their research efforts.
4/17/2013
A new web application (widget) helps nonprofit organizations simplify charitable giving and tap into the growing popularity of donor-advised funds (DAFs).

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