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Business Wire
NCPERS Awards $40,000 to College Scholarship Program For New York City Public School Students
“The UFT believes that education is the door to a productive life and that their students have what it takes to overcome personal and financial strains in the pursuit of learning” The UFT is the union that represents the city’s public school teachers, pa...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
Tuition perk
Companies have had to cut back to survive the Great Recession, and one of the casualties has been tuition reimbursement for employees. A 2011 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management showed a gradual, five-year decline in the number of compani...
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Reno Gazette-Journal
Reno 2020: Nevada education still far from an 'A'
The Reno 2020 town hall focused on education, one of several key areas identified by the project as...- 10:59 pm A colorful mural on the west wall of Renos Lear Theater must be painted over because it clashes...- 10:56 pm Hiring through the rest of 2012...
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PRWeb
Waterford School Announces College Admissions for Class of 2012
In terms of the approach, our goal is to find the right fit for each of our students. It is a very personalized process The Waterford School recently released its college admissions statistics for the 2012 graduating class. One hundred percent of Waterfo...
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The Nevada Sagebrush
Obama hits road over student debt
Poised on a healthy balance of solid talking points and a sturdy step stool, President Barack Obama joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots last Tuesday to address the financial concerns facing students across the country. The jam session took place during a s...
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The Nevada Sagebrush
Student government spends $76,500 on music festival
DJ Max Kronyak, one of the local performers set to play #Wolfstock on Saturday, performs at Club Wurk. File Photo/Nevada Sagebrush #Wolfstock, a daylong music festival set to kick off Saturday, has Flipside Productions’ programmers shelling out thousands...
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San Antonio Express
Nevada's Millennium Scholarship loses luster
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's Millennium Scholarship doesn't go nearly as far these days as it once did to help eligible high school students attend college, education officials told state legislators. "It was a significant scholarship 13 years ago,"...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
College seeks to increase low graduation rate
The College of Southern Nevada has a problem, and everyone knows it: Hardly anyone there actually graduates. That's an exaggeration, but not by much. CSN's graduation rate stood at 4.6 percent two years ago. It climbed to 9 percent last year and stands a...
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Lahontan Valley News & Fallen Eagle Standard
College committee works on plan to restore previous WNC programs
The Restore our College Campus Committee took its first major step Tuesday in identifying areas it would like to see returned to the Fallon campus because of budget cuts and decisions made from Carson City administrators. The committee consists of curren...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
Study: Fastest growing Nevada jobs don't require college degree
CARSON CITY - Think you need a college degree to find a job in Nevada? The fastest growing occupations in the Silver State are retail salespersons, waitresses and waitresses, cashiers and gaming dealers, according to a study released at a legislative Com...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
Proposal to boost Millennium Scholarship payments goes nowhere
CARSON CITY - No Nevada legislators stepped forward Thursday to support spending more on the Millennium Scholarship program in order to reduce the increasing college costs paid by students. When the scholarship program began in 2000, its funds covered al...
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The Rebel Yell
Formula sub-committee to consider how to define course completion
Klaich catches criticism for plan that would fund failed courses The state committee studying the Nevada higher education funding formula has created a subcommittee to deal with questions about how to define student completion and to consider possible lo...
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ABC News
U.S. Veterans Targeted By Marketers in College Selection Process
The Post-9/11 GI Bill offers financial support for veterans' education, leading some marketers to target vets with deceptive advertising about college opportunities and President Obama to sign an executive order on Friday to curb those abuses. The bill w...
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EurekAlert
University of Nevada, Reno first to show transgenerational effect of antibiotics
IMAGE: Jeanne Zeh, lead author of a paper published in Natures open access journal Scientific Reports today, examines a pseudoscorpion using a microscope operated by graduate student, and one of the... RENO, Nev. In a paper published today in Nature's o...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
Legislators question higher education funding formula
The proposal to remake how the state's colleges and universities are funded would reward innovation, efficiency and success instead of growth, the state's higher education chancellor told a legislative committee Wednesday. But the proposal, put forth by...
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