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Mississippi Seeks Out Near-Completers - Officials Want Former College...
Mississippi Seeks Out Near-Completers - Officials Want Former College Students To Finish Degrees Officials plan to focus immediately awarding degrees without additional coursework. That includes more...
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New Transfer Rule Enacted For Alabama Colleges - Reverse Transfer Seen as...
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First-Generation Students Get Success Tools - Pathways Program Aids in...
First-Generation Students Get Success Tools - Pathways Program Aids in College, Scholarship Applications together a resume,” Jones said. “Before we started this program, I worked with four students...
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Back to the Future: Vocational Education Making Comeback - Oregon Investing...
Back to the Future: Vocational Education Making Comeback - Oregon Investing Millions in Career Technical Education Programs After completing her first engines class, Krimbow, whose grade point average...
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Electronic Records Create New Health Care Profession - Medical Scribes in...
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2 Ga. Schools Can Admit Illegal Immigrants - State Still Bans Most DACA...
2 Ga. Schools Can Admit Illegal Immigrants - State Still Bans Most DACA Students The Board of Regents, which governs the University System of Georgia, adopted a policy in 2010 that prohibited any of...
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Wind Turbine a Source of Energy And Education - Nebraska College Plans Wind...
Wind Turbine a Source of Energy And Education - Nebraska College Plans Wind Energy Program The sun sets behind a wind turbine built south of the Central Community College- Hastings campus in Hastings,...
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Advocates Question Plan for College or Foster Care Youth - Initiative Would...
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RI Free College Tuition Proposal Off to Rocky Start - Governor Defends Proposal as Questions Grow Over Price Tag “There’s only so much money that we have allocated,” said Rep. James McLaughlin, a...
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Vermont Professors Aiming To Teach, Educate Inmates - Courses Also To Be...
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Wyo. Technical College Tailors Program to Vets - Counselors Help Service...
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RI Gov. Might Scale Back Free Tuition Plan - Revenue Shortfall Complicates...
RI Gov. Might Scale Back Free Tuition Plan - Revenue Shortfall Complicates Budget Negotiations “We have to be careful in general right now about getting over our skis on any new expenditures that are...
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Tennessee Expands Free Tuition Initiative - Older Adults without Degree...
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Ohio’s First Brewing Degree Is On Tap - Cincinnati State Technical and...
Ohio’s First Brewing Degree Is On Tap - Cincinnati State Technical and Community College To Offer Associate Degree in Brewing “The new brewing degree program at Cincinnati State will not only save us a...
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Boston Announces Tuition-Free College Pilot Program - State, City Would Split...
Boston Announces Tuition-Free College Pilot Program - State, City Would Split Costs of College ‘The Boston Bridge’ The Republican governor and the Democratic mayor recently launched the new college...
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Miss. Pushes Former Students To Complete College Degrees - Nearly 160,000...
Miss. Pushes Former Students To Complete College Degrees - Nearly 160,000 Students Being Urged To Return to Campus Census figures show 29 percent of Mississippians older than 25 have a two-year or...
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Homelessness a Growing Concern on Campuses - Surveys Document Large Numbers...
Homelessness a Growing Concern on Campuses - Surveys Document Large Numbers of Homeless College Students DETROIT (AP) — Jennifer Carr knows she’s not the profile of a typical college student. The...
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Wyoming’s Wind Is In Demand, But Does It Have the Workforce? - Officials Seek...
Wyoming’s Wind Is In Demand, But Does It Have the Workforce? - Officials Seek Trained Workers for Growing Industry Wind energy has found favor with some and stoked anger in others in the Equality...
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Mass. Schools, Employers Try To Lure Students to Manufacturing - Looming...
Mass. Schools, Employers Try To Lure Students to Manufacturing - Looming Worker Shortage Has Colleges Ramping Up Recruitment WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Amid perceptions that manufactur- ing is yesterday’s...
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Texas Aims To Aid Unprepared Students - New State Law Requires Overhaul of...
Texas Aims To Aid Unprepared Students - New State Law Requires Overhaul of Remedial Classes AUSTIN, Texas — As Texas tries to educate a growing number of college students who come from struggling...
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Kansas City Leaders Grappling With Troubling Trend: Brain Drain - More...
Kansas City Leaders Grappling With Troubling Trend: Brain Drain - More Degree-Holders Moving Out than Moving In KC Rising, which started in 2014, recently had its annual meeting to discuss Kansas...
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Iowa Steps Up Efforts To Produce More Nurses - New Partnership Intends To...
Iowa Steps Up Efforts To Produce More Nurses - New Partnership Intends To Curb Nursing Shortage Smith, who previously worked in public relations, and Bimbo, who held a variety of jobs including pastry...
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Expert Says Older Adults Offer More Skills to Labor Force - NH Seeks Ways To...
Expert Says Older Adults Offer More Skills to Labor Force - NH Seeks Ways To Solve Skilled Labor Shortage Speaking at an economic forum at the New Hampshire Statehouse, Ross Gittell, chancellor of the...
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Walmart Offers Employees New Perk: Affordable Degrees - Benefit Aimed at...
Walmart Offers Employees New Perk: Affordable Degrees - Benefit Aimed at Attracting Better Entry-Level Employees The company is working with Denver-based startup Guild Education to give employees the...
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