Support grows for major shift in Pell Inside Higher Ed Bipartisan support builds for expanding Pell Grant eligibility to short-term certificates, although some experts worry about quality control and funding. Foxconn forces Wisconsin to confront…
At 19, Dalton Sasin’s wizardry with a welding wand is taking him places. This month, he begins a 20-week specialized welding training program in Port Arthur with Cheniere Energy, who recruited him right out of…
Delgado Community College (DCC) will award 23 African-American women scholarships thanks to a $198,000 grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. Each of the women will receive $2,100 a semester for two years through the Coca-Cola First…
Earning a 2-year degree while serving a 6-year sentence NPR Because of a pilot program introduced by the Obama administration in 2015, inmates across the country have access to federal Pell grants to take college…
Some 70,000 incoming California freshmen and more than 21,000 in-state community college transfer students were offered a spot at the one of the University of California’s (UC) nine undergraduate campuses for this fall. Daily StaffCCDaily…
Public colleges and universities in Arizona will keep providing in-state tuition for young immigrants who came to the U.S. at an early age despite a recent court decision that threw it in doubt. Associated PressCopyright…
If you keep a handgun in your backpack and the professor calls you to the front of the class to answer a question, take the backpack with you. If your weapon is holstered on you,…
Interim president Michael Redmond, a professor of philosophy and religion at Bergen Community College in New Jersey and a former administrator, will serve as the college’s interim president. He joined the college in 1981 and…
Some of the first graduates of the commercial driver license (CDL) program taught through the new Wallace State Community College-Oneonta Center are looking forward to hitting the road and starting new careers. Gail Crutchfieldis the…
A proposal aimed at protecting controversial speakers’ appearances at Louisiana colleges and calling on campuses to penalize students who disrupt them has been vetoed by Gov. John Bel Edwards, who described the bill as a…