New Jersey lawmakers have reversed some proposed funding cuts to community colleges, ensuring operating aid remains consistent with the past two years. However, financial aid programs—including the Community College Opportunity Grant—will still face reductions under the new budget.
Over 700,000 certificates and associate's degrees will go un-earned every year until 2032, curbing American workers from maximizing their annual earnings, according to Georgetown University.
More Northeastern teens are heading to the South for large state schools, with LSU seeing a nearly 500% increase in attendance from students in the Northeast between 2014 and 2023, an Axios data analysis shows.
More than 400 programs are slated for elimination, culling nearly 20% of the degrees previously offered by the state's public higher education institutions.
The move is part of a broader strategy by the Burlington-based school to design a new "career-focused" curriculum for the fall of 2026 "that is focused on and driven by employer needs and student interests," according to a fact sheet provided to VTDigger by the college.
Last month (May), health and wellness colleagues gathered at the American College Health Association Annual Meeting to hear about new approaches to help serve students' mental and physical well-being.
Proposed class action by students claimed the university submitted false data to boost its position in U.S. News & World Report's influential college rankings.
