WASHINGTON – I didn’t give much thought to my college daughter’s plans to spend her spring semester last year in Chile.
I didn’t study the brochures. Neither my wife nor I had ever studied overseas. We had no stories to tell and no expertise to share.
We figured this was one area where we wouldn’t interfere, and […]

Buenos Aires – April 29, 2007: Buenos Aires-based Expanish is launching a unique summer program this year that steps out of the typical study abroad mould with hands-on learning and the opportunity to actually “experience Spanish,” filling a significant gap in the city’s educational program options that has existed for years.
Study abroad rates among U.S. […]

College officials say a personalized approach contributes to students’ success.
Renee Trujillo had hoped to become a teacher when she enrolled at Colorado State University-Pueblo almost four years ago.
But even before she took her first class, the Pueblo wife and mother of three discovered teaching wasn’t her fit.
“A counselor told me that the education program was […]

Mary Clemons had no intention of going to college after completing high school last year, and she was not pleased when her high school told her she had to complete a college application and submit it.
Now enrolled in Central Maine Community College, where she’s studying to be a medical assistant, Clemons has a far different […]

OAKLAND — Daniel Ocumpaugh’s FFA steer project won’t go uncompleted despite the teenager’s death on Oct. 20.
The 15-year-old sophomore at Oakland High School was raising and training his first steer to show at the 2007 Douglas County Fair in August. Ocumpaugh died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident.
Friend and fellow Oakland student D.J. Kennedy […]

The Kenwood Woman’s Club will be hold its annual Scholarship Awards Luncheon at 11:30 a.m., May 8, at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Madeira.
The scholarships will be presented to seniors graduating from several area high schools.
The Patty Bertsche Memorial Scholarship, given by the Walter Bertsche Family, will be presented to a woman who wishes […]

HARTSELLE — When you met Emily Orr, one thing was immediately apparent about the Hartselle High student.
“She loved music,” family friend Kim Lemmond said. “She had a beautiful voice and she was always singing. Her favorite saying was, ‘Don’t just stand there: sing.’ “
Orr died in a single-vehicle accident Nov. 8 three miles northeast of […]

HARTSELLE — When you met Emily Orr, one thing was immediately apparent about the Hartselle High student.
“She loved music,” family friend Kim Lemmond said. “She had a beautiful voice and she was always singing. Her favorite saying was, ‘Don’t just stand there: sing.’ “
Orr died in a single-vehicle accident Nov. 8 three miles northeast of […]

The next time the Ashland faithful sit down to watch Josi McDermott play basketball, it might be in front of a TV tuned to ESPN.
McDermott, one of the best all-round players in Ashland High girls basketball history, has accepted a full-ride scholarship from the University of Utah, a Mountain West Conference powerhouse that’s a regular […]

The walk or run will start from West Morris Central High School on Bartley Road at 1 p.m.
Register at www.wmchs.org or from 11:30 a.m. at the race site on Sunday.
Entry fee for the race is $20, which supports the scholarship fund.
All entrants will receive a free race T-shirt. Prizes will be awarded to the top […]