The Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation is giving $15 million to New Community College, which will change its name to Stella and Charles Guttman Community College.
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5/14/2013
The Art of Finance is the first specialty class offered by Venture Highway that dives deeper in specific subject matter for aspiring entrepreneurs. The accounting and finance material builds upon content introduced in Venture Highway's Foundations of Entrepreneurship coursework.
5/14/2013
Regent 8 is changing the way institutions process financial aid, giving them revolutionary and intuitive tools to automate and manage every aspect of the financial aid life cycle-even for institutions with non-term, BBAY, and standard term models.
5/14/2013
As part of the "LTI App Bounty," Instructure is offering a $250 reward for each qualifying LTI app submitted by June 10, plus an additional $1,000 for the best apps selected by an expert panel of judges from Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Remote-Learner, IMS Global, Brown University, The University of Texas at Austin and Hack Education.
5/14/2013
The Bretford polyurethane edges are molded, which allows them to be formed into unique shapes. Available in reverse knife (Edge 18) and quarter round (Edge 19) styles, these edges are shaped on the user side and are flat on the remaining sides and back to allow them to fit closely together for a clean connection with other tables.
5/14/2013
A Pew Research Center study found that almost seven out of every ten Hispanic high school graduates from the class of 2012 enrolled in college last fall. That's two percentage points higher than the rate for Whites and six percentage points higher than Blacks.
5/14/2013
California's three college systems would receive more money from the state each year through 2016-17—and would have to freeze tuition—under Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal.
5/14/2013
Voters rejected a $500 million bond package for the Lone Star College System that would have paid for more classrooms and technology upgrades. Why did the bond fail and what does it mean for the college?
5/14/2013
A private college in northwest Georgia is suing Tennessee's higher education commission in a dispute over billboard advertising.
5/14/2013
One in four Indiana college students needs remedial help when he gets there. Education officials are working on guidelines to spot those students while they're still in high school.
5/14/2013
On Wednesday the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will launch Compare College Texas, an attempt to organize confusing data so future students can weigh their choices.
5/14/2013
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger announced plans this morning to retire from the university. He plans to remain in the job until his replacement is found by the university’s board of visitors.
5/14/2013
In an attempt to encourage college completion, Strayer University announced a plan to reduce tuition, but only to students who are actively working toward a degree.
5/14/2013
The writer says the primary roles football and basketball programs play for universities are in the marketing and promotion areas. Nothing sells a school like a successful team.
5/14/2013
Most courses at University of California Riverside are four units, which ideally allows students to enroll in a full load of four courses and graduate on time. But plenty of courses are five units, which upsets the delicate 16-unit balancing act, forcing students to drop a course they are prepared and willing to take.
