Guidance is in short supply at California's community colleges, where funding for advising, tutoring and other student support services was chopped in half during the economic downturn. But Professor Claudio Duran and his students found a low-cost solution to help aspiring transfers find their way: a support group.
Enrollment & Retention
5/20/2013
5/20/2013
It found that hundreds of public and private colleges expect the neediest students to pay an amount that is equal to or more than their families’ yearly earnings. At the same time, the schools are offering more merit aid, based on such factors as a student’s academic achievement, to attract the students they most desire.
5/20/2013
Limited community college capacity could keep 2.5 million Californians out of the system over the next 10 years. The seat shortage is expected to fall hardest on Latino students, squeezing 840,000 out of the schools.
5/20/2013
The Rural Horseshoe Initiative is being undertaken by Virginia's 14 rural community colleges. This multidisciplined initiative seeks to address the lack of overall educational attainment that handicaps our young people who reside in rural Virginia through the increased use of career coaches.
5/20/2013
College enrollments declined 2.3% this spring compared with a year earlier, a sign that more students are returning to the workforce as the economy recovers, a report says.
5/16/2013
The University of Texas Co-op was the first in Texas to sign up to get the branded shelves for hot items such as headphones and accessories from Beats by Dr. Dre, Skullcandy and SOL Republic.
5/16/2013
The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship is, at least on paper, available to white students "of either sex, born in the state of Iowa," according to a Columbia University charter from 1920.
5/15/2013
A push to prevent public colleges and universities from charging student veterans out-of-state tuition took a leap forward Tuesday when Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee leaders joined the cause.
5/15/2013
The University of Wyoming has established a policy that will allow students at Wyoming community colleges who earn associate of arts or associate of science degrees to be automatically admitted to the university.
5/9/2013
The Senate Education Committee signed off on two bills Wednesday intended to protect free expression in schools and colleges.
5/9/2013
"Lavender graduation," also known as "rainbow graduation," first occurred at the University of Michigan in 1995 and honors the hardships, achievements, struggles and hopes and dreams of graduates and allies from the gay community.
5/8/2013
In this web seminar, Scannell & Kurz offers best practices in deploying scarce aid resources, while discussing how to evaluate the effectiveness of current pricing and award strategies and how to identify opportunities to increase net tuition.
5/7/2013
Increasingly, it seems as though higher education doesn’t have a place for people like me or my family. You see, we are the middle people. We are middle class, with three children. But in the realm of higher education, if you are “middle,” you are at the bottom. Scholarships, grants and financial assistance abound for students who earn top grades. And rightfully so.
5/6/2013
A proposal to require Connecticut colleges and universities to supply students with uniform financial aid information has passed in the state House of Representatives. The bill, which passed 141-to-0, obliges institutions of higher education to provide a financial aid shopping sheet to each admitted student before the enrollment deadline.
5/6/2013
Call it the couponing of higher education. After years of skyrocketing tuition costs, many private colleges in the United States are ramping up their financial aid packages in an attempt to attract new students and boost sagging enrollments.
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