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The Register Guard
EDUCATION EXTRA: Opportunities
The Little French School will hold a spring open house from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at 1717 City View. Families can tour the facilities, visit classrooms and meet with teachers of the private, nonprofit school. The school provides immersion in the Fren...
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Oregon Daily Emerald
Death of University student sparks concern about meningitis exposure
The reported death of University student Lill Pagenstecher from bacterial meningitis Friday night has students and the campus community wondering about the infection. Meningitis is a bacterial infection of the brain and spinal chord membranes. It spreads...
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Ars Technica
Feature: Future U: Classroom tech doesn't mean handing out tablets
A couple of decades ago the most advanced technology to appear in an average classroom was a mini-cassette recorder and a calculator. For most students, however, typical classroom technology ran the gamut from yellow legal pads to theme books, from penci...
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Ars Technica
Future U: Classroom tech doesn't mean handing out tablets
Future U is a multipart series on the university of the 21st century. We will be investigating the possible future of the textbook, the technological development of libraries, how tech may change the role of the professor, and the future role of technolo...
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OregonNews.com
UCC program helps students earn GED diplomas and start college
WINCHESTER —Terrance Bradford reminds his students they're not in a typical GED program. When they come to his classes at Umpqua Community College, they're not just working toward earning their GED diplomas. They're in college. “From now on,” Bradford te...
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Hattiesburg American
AP exams surge as tool for schools raising 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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Richmond Times-Dispatch
AP classes surge as schools seek challenge
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 m...
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Ashland Daily Tidings
Tuition just another symptom
It has become an event nearly as predictable as the changing seasons: Southern Oregon University announces another tuition increase. We could rail at the Legislature for failing to give higher education the support it needs, but that won't do much good w...
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Oregon Live
Private colleges play a big part in the future of Oregon higher education
By Larry D. Large Our governor and Legislature are taking significant steps to ensure that Oregonians are equipped with the education they will need to contribute and prosper in an increasingly competitive, global economy. I applaud their commitment to O...
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Mail Tribune
SOU requests 9.9% tuition increase
Payne Smith, a freshman theater major, was on Southern Oregon University’s campus Monday encouraging students to support Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group with their student fees. He says students don’t think about the price they’re paying fo...
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Ashland Daily Tidings
Losing their shirts?
SOU proposes 9.9% tuition increase, but will offset it with a cut in student fees Payne Smith, a freshman theater major, was on Southern Oregon University’s campus Monday encouraging students to support Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group with...
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University Business
Drew University President Stepping Down From Post
Drew University president Robert Weisbuch announced today that he will step down June 30 after seven years as head of the liberal arts college in Madison. The university’s Board of Trustees said former economics professor Vivian Bull, president emerita o...
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OregonNews.com
GUEST COLUMN: UCC levy is a local tax for a local defined benefit
I have received some interesting responses to my public support of the Umpqua Community College bond levy. They range everywhere from “no new taxes” to “why put more money into a failed education system?” First let me address the issue of the education s...
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Corvallis Gazette-Times
Letter: Destructive increase in number of OSU students still on the table
So, meetings with the mayor, OSU president, interested parties, etc., are continuing to be held to address the problems of what appears to be the OSU student enrollment increase juggernaut. And, at the same time, local and national headlines point out th...
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iStockAnalyst
Darden Restaurants Awards $465,000 in Local Grants to Boys & Girls Clubs Nationwide
ATLANTA, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of the inaugural Darden Restaurant Community Grant program, over 200 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country have been selected to receive local grants totaling $465,000 from the Darden Foundation,...
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