A comprehensive higher education package that would make obtaining a college education more affordable for New York’s students has been approved by the Senate Majority Conference and sent to the Assembly.
The legislation is designed to help families with soaring tuition expenses, provide new incentives to college students to keep them living and working in New […]

CHARLESTON — Students who don’t take the traditional route to four-year colleges following high school, could end up paying more for their education.
Most students who enter South Carolina’s four-year colleges as first-time freshmen get some form of financial assistance, whether it’s lottery money or scholarships offered by the schools.
But students who transfer into those schools […]

Bangkok - Students from six Southeast Asian countries are invited to apply for full scholarships for a master programme at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s leading varsity.
Initiated by Siam Cement Foundation, the scholarships are available to students who are citizens of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
Siam Cement Foundation is under auspicious of SCG Group, […]

The Alex Smith Foundation and San Diego State University (SDSU) will launch the Guardian Scholars Program on June 28. The Program will provide ten emancipated foster youth in San Diego County with five-year scholarships to SDSU, year-round housing and extensive individual mentoring and tutoring throughout their time in school. The program will grant scholarships to […]

Portland Community College’s Rock Creek campus is struggling to find enough applicants to fill a program that is one of few federal efforts nationwide to help migrant students attend college.
The $1.5 million U.S. Department of Education grant helps PCC Rock Creek’s College Assistance Migrant Program provide financial aid, tutoring and mentoring services to seasonal and […]

The federal grant that Orange Coast College recently received will benefit the school for five years, according to Vice President of Student Services Jess Craig.
On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced that OCC was among 20 colleges and universities nationwide receiving grants under the Strengthening Institutions Program. Craig, reached Friday, said the $399,998 […]

The Upward Bound program at Central Michigan University received a $250,000 grant from the United States Department of Education to continue its mission to help students achieve a higher education.
“The grant is the foundation source to help us carry out the goals and objectives of the proposal we sent out to […]

Two summers ago, as the House Education and Labor Committee debated legislation to renew the Higher Education Act, the panel’s Republican majority and Democratic minority warred over the best way to spend money gained from cutting subsidies to lenders. Arguing that the bill drafted by Republicans would do too little to make college affordable for […]

Committee Approves Largest Education Aid Package Since GI Bill
Washington, DC - Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) secured an amendment to increase Pell Grants for college students as part of a new bill aimed at reducing the cost of higher education. The House Education and Labor Committee voted yesterday to pass the College Cost Reduction Act of […]

STONE RIDGE - Ulster County Community College has been awarded a $397,506 federal grant to help students meet academic performance goals and keep them from dropping out.
The grant was awarded under the U.S. Department of Education’s Strengthening Institutions Program.
“This is great news for Ulster County Community College,” U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a […]