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AZ Central.com
Phoenix-area high-school grads get college degrees
Sierra Landon is tired. But she will be ahead of her friends when she graduates this month from Perry High School in Gilbert. The 18-year-old senior has spent the past several years either working 30 hours a week on the swing shift for a local McDonald's...
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Street Insider
USA Funds awards $1.1 million in higher education grants
INDIANAPOLIS, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Funds®, a nonprofit organization that helps American families benefit from postsecondary education, announces the award of more than $1.1 million in grants for the quarter ending March 31, 2012. USA Funds aw...
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The News-Press
Committee begins interviewing semifinalists for Edison State College president
The Fort Myers Police Department honored its fallen this morning with a candlelight vigil at the...- 7:37 am Edison State Colleges presidential search committee today will be interviewing six semifinalists;...- 7:44 am Rep says commission structure ruins...
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MPR | Minnesota Public Radio
College class of 2012 enters improving job market
NEW YORK (AP) -- The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs. To the relief of graduating seniors -- and their anxious parents -- the outlook is brighter than it has bee...
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Detroit Free Press
Crushed by college debt: Massive loan bills hang over graduates, derail life plans
Sean Doerr, like thousands of Michigan college graduates this spring, is trapped between a rock and a hard place. To get a good job, he knew he needed a college degree. But getting it cost the 22-year-old Detroiter dearly. He graduated Thursday from the...
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The Daily Update
Honorary Degree Recipients Announced
Hobart and William Smith Colleges will recognize six individuals with honorary degrees at this year's Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 13. Selected for the various ways they demonstrate engaged citizenship - in service to Geneva, the Colleges and the...
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PRWeb
Phoenix College and Arizona State University Medical Laboratory Scientist Program Wins Innovation Award
Phoenix College is one of the 10 regionally accredited Maricopa Community Colleges This prestigious innovation award validates the partnership with Arizona State University and use of innovative learning technologies in a hybrid delivery model. --Julie S...
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PR Newswire
CollegeAmerica Instuctor Cathy Romeo Named Educator of the Year by the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CollegeAmerica, a leading provider of on-campus and online higher education, today announced that the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) named associate professor Cathy Romeo its...
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Minding the Campus
The Drive to 'Privatize' Community Colleges
So, is differential tuition dead? Hardly. There seems to be a growing consensus among community-college administrators across the country that in this era of chronic economic recession and declining government funding, some form of "privatization" is the...
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Sacramento Bee
Editorial: California risks drain of brains to other states
Franklin High seniors Tim Phillips, left, and Austin Jack plan to attend Arizona State University in the fall. Here's yet another sign of crisis in California higher education. More students are leaving the state to attend a four-year college or universi...
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Maoxian
From Graduate School to Welfare
"I am not a welfare queen," says Melissa Bruninga-Matteau. That's how she feels compelled to start a conversation about how she, a white woman with a Ph.D. in medieval history and an adjunct professor, came to rely on food stamps and Medicaid. Ms. Brunin...
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GazetteNet | Northampton, MA
GOP blocks student loan bill in Senate
Republican Sens., from left, John Thune, R-S.D., John Cornyn, R-Texas, Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky meet reporters on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., joined other GOP senators in...
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Verde Independent
Yavapai College graduation planned Friday in Clarkdale
CLARKDALE - Around 75 to 100 Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus graduates will receive degrees and certificates during the 2012 Commencement Ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday. Nursing graduates will receive their degrees Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Yavapai Colleg...
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L.A. Daily News
Editorial: State's brain drain -- Value of good education sends young elsewhere
California universities' curriculum cutbacks and tuition hikes are having an effect that any freshman economics student could have predicted: More and more high school graduates are choosing to leave the state for college. out of state for college will e...
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The Bugle
Yavapai College graduation Friday in Clarkdale
CLARKDALE - Around 75 to 100 Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus graduates will receive degrees and certificates during the 2012 Commencement Ceremony at 6 p.m. Friday. Nursing graduates will receive their degrees Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Yavapai Colleg...
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