Centenary will use $1 million grant for math and science programs, technology upgrades.
HACKETTSTOWN | Centenary College has received a $1 million grant from NASA to expand its math and science education programs, college officials announced Monday.
The award is the largest federal grant in the college’s history, Provost and Chief Operating Officer Bryon Grigsby […]

Morgridge family donates money to fund partial construction
The DU College of Education received a $10 million gift last week as part of a fundraising campaign to construct a new building and establish an endowment.
Philanthropists Carrie and John Morgridge donated the money to the school, partially funding construction of the building and providing money for the […]

EKU, Morehead, WKU unveil plans
FRANKFORT - In the face of persistent evidence that a college education is becoming less affordable, three more public universities in Kentucky have announced financial-aid initiatives to help students.
Eastern Kentucky University unveiled its plan yesterday at a meeting of the state Council on Postsecondary Education. Only days before, Morehead State University […]

Community College of Aurora has received a $44,000 grant from the Daniels Fund as part of the organization’s Daniels Opportunity Scholarship program.
With those grant funds, CCA has earmarked four scholarships for General Education Diploma recipients and 17 for students entering CCA’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) program.

CCA’s first G.E.D. scholarship recipients include Chris Petrolay, Brittany Stein, […]

Offering free college tuition to good North Dakota high school students will encourage them to stay in the state and build its work force, two state senators say.
“The competition in the marketplace is intense. We can elect to compete, or we can sit back, and let other states pass us by, while we watch,” said […]

Professors at New Jersey Institute of Technology were awarded a $1.1 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to change the way inner city students learn about science and technology. The money will allow engineering professors from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) and specialists from NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs to help public […]

The Bank of Taiwan yesterday reminded would-be student loan applicants not to miss the Feb. 27 deadline set for next semester.
A spokesman for the bank said that its student loan programs have attracted some 300,000 applicants each semester in previous years.
However, only 30,000 students have applied so far, with some 3,000 applications being filed each […]

Almost two weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut the interest rate for student loans in half, bill supporters are waiting for the Senate to approve the bill into law.
The bill — approved by the House on Jan. 17 — would cut the interest rate of federally subsidized student loans from the […]

A private student loan provider is moving to Austin with plans to hire more than 200 people.
Education Finance Partners Inc., based in San Francisco, will open a customer operations center in North Austin. The location will house loan operations, customer service, technology and human resources. It expects to bring the site up to full […]

Bernice King graduated from Spelman College in 1985 with a degree and a commitment to one day establish a scholarship at her alma mater to help other women complete their studies.
Today, she kept her promise by establishing the Be A King scholarship at the nation’s pre-eminent liberal arts college for African-American women, in honor of […]