There was big money coming into Lafayette Technical College Friday. The school received a 1.3 million dollar grant to train workers for construction jobs. Following the hurricanes there’s a demand for construction workers.
For the next few months all campuses of LTC will have free training for those who want to enter the construction workforce.
They’re also […]

Michael J. Grant of Santa Ana was inducted into the Albion College Athletic Hall of Fame during the weekend.
Grant, a two-time All-MIAA first- team defensive back, earned All-America honors and was selected the MIAA most valuable defensive player in 1986. Grant also played lacrosse and graduated magna cum laude.
Grant works at Costello & Sons Insurance […]

College students in Birmingham are rallying in support of state funding for higher education.
Members of several UAB student organizations hosted the rally on Friday in an effort to persuade legislators to prevent cutbacks in state money to Alabama’s four-year colleges and universities. The money helps keep tuition costs down and provides schools with needed resources.
Estimates […]

RALEIGH — North Carolina launched a virtual public school Wednesday that allows students to take classes online.
Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue said the program would give students opportunities to advance their education by offering courses that may not be available in some local schools. Online classes would supplement students’ regular in-school courses. The classes are available […]

Having a career and family tend to limit Leo Stolfi’s time.
Finding time to continue his education was never easy for the Leesville resident and chief of police at Fort Polk, and usually meant night classes.
But not anymore.
Now, Stolfi has joined the thousands of students across the country taking classes at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches […]

Latin Americans working outside their countries will send $60 billion home this year, a 12 percent increase over 2005, the Inter-American Development Bank said this week.
The bulk of the money, an estimated $45 billion, is being sent by the 12.6 million immigrants from Central and South America who ship money home regularly from the United […]

Professor Devesh Kapur has taken over as the new director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for the Advanced Study of India, succeeding Professor Francine Frankel, the founding director.
Frankel has joined the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, DC, as a senior fellow.
Kapur, 47, recently moved to Philadelphia and joined the University of […]

A task force is recommending steps ranging from providing full-day kindergarten to improving college financial aid as ways to recruit and retain minority students at the state’s universities and colleges.
Dave Doty, assistant higher education commissioner, leads the task force, which includes representatives of the state’s minority communities and each of the state’s […]

Studying science and math might not be what elementary school students consider fun, but aspiring teachers at the College of Saint Rose are trying to get them into a new mind set.
“We will produce, over the next 10 years, 3,000 elementary school teachers who will spark the interest of young children to master and love […]

Once you’ve unearthed the scholarships you’d like to apply for, it’s time to request all the necessary information to get the ball rolling towards its final goal of a drastically cheapened tuition bill.
There are a few acceptable ways of doing this, depending on the scholarship organization: you may be able to email a request, call […]