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Business Wire
RBS Citizens Financial Group expands Education Finance business to offer private student loans across continental U.S.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RBS Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (RBSCFG) today announced the expansion of its student lending business and now is offering private student loans to college students across the 48 contiguous states. Eligible students...
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Beaumont Enterprise
Conn. bill eliminate remedial college courses
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A measure that would eventually eliminate remedial college courses in an effort to improve public higher education has quietly passed both chambers in the General Assembly. It comes at a time where there is great focus on Gov. Dann...
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Big Government
Chronicle of Higher Education Fires Commentator Ripping Black Studies Theses
Riley’s fusillade was triggered by the Chronicles cover story titled “Black Studies: 'Swaggering Into the Future,’” which stated that “young black-studies scholars … are less consumed than their predecessors with the need to validate the field or explain...
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Minding the Campus
The Academic Mob Rules
Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a cover story called "Black Studies: 'Swaggering Into the Future,'" in which the reporter described how "young black-studies scholars . . . are less consumed than their predecessors with the need to v...
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Syracuse.com
Grading college basketball is a tricky exercise
David J. Phillip / APKentucky players celebrate after winning the national championship on Arpil 2 in New Orleans. The Wildcats have had 12 players leave early during the past three years to the NBA Draft, but are among the top schools in academic perfor...
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Wall Street Journal
Naomi Schaefer Riley: The Academic Mob Rules
Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a cover story called "Black Studies: 'Swaggering Into the Future,'" in which the reporter described how "young black-studies scholars . . . are less consumed than their predecessors with the need to v...
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The Huffington Post
Best High Schools In America 2012: U.S. News And World Report Releases New Rankings
This piece comes to us courtesy of U.S. News & World Report . When considering your child's education, it may be hard not to focus on the potential loans needed to pay for college or the outlook of the post-graduation job market. Sending your child to a...
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Minding the Campus
For Most Graduates, Grueling Job Hunt Awaits
Graduating college students face a mixed job market at best this year, and most will leave school without an offer in hand, despite an uptick in hiring by on-campus recruiters. A survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers s...
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Inside Higher Ed
Prior learning assessment catches on, quietly
The Internet takes college courses out of the classroom. But prior learning assessment takes college outside of college. The practice of granting college credit for learning and knowledge gained outside the traditional academic setting goes back decades,...
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The Portland Maine Press Herald
Norridgewock girl wins $10,000 scholarship
SKOWHEGAN - Anna Marshall wants to change the world. The Skowhegan Area High School senior from Norridgewock hopes a $10,000 scholarship to pursue environmental studies at college as a 2012 Coca-Cola Scholar will help her do just that. Marshall, 18, is t...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Once for the elite, AP surges in popularity as broad range of schools looks to raise standards
Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymore. In the next two weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams — figures well o...
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TheDay.com
Citizen of the Year
The Day joins all of eastern Connecticut in congratulating Grace S. Jones, president of Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, as the 62nd Annual Citizen of the Year Award recipient. She will be honored during this evening's gala at the MGM Grand at...
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Faculty Respond to Riley Post on African-American Studies
We, the African-American-studies faculty at Northwestern University, reject the amateurish attack by Ms. Riley on our graduate students, and, by extension, on the black-studies academic enterprise, including those in other disciplines who contribute to b...
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Forbes Blogs
Poor Students Are The Real Victims Of College Discrimination
I cover finance, the law, and how the two interact. Will they ever consider economic discrimination? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to ban affirmative-action policies at U.S. universities in Fisher v...
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SeacoastOnline.com
Maine student lands $100,000 college scholarship
READFIELD, Maine (AP) — A Maine high school senior has landed a major scholarship. Maranacook Community High School senior Jared Diou-Cass received word Monday that he was one of just three students nationwide to land a $100,000 Proton OnSite Scholarship...
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