College

March 28, 2008 -- College students face challenges obtaining health insurance--they may not have access to insurance through an employer, and as they get older, they may lose dependent coverage obtained through a parent's plan. Federal law ensures continued access to health insurance for some, but not all, such students. Without health insurance, college students may be unable to pay for their health care, and the cost of this care may be passed on to federal and state payers, such as Medicaid. College students may have access to student insurance plans offered by their colleges.    » read more »

Early college high schools, small high schools will benefit students in 21st century economy

LANSING - Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today joined Pontiac area leaders on a tour of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital to discuss how the state can help Pontiac Public Schools create new high schools that will connect students in the district to a college education and good- paying jobs.    » read more »

Bipartisan Group Urges Increase in Maximum Pell Grant Award

February 29, 2008 -- Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), and Norm Coleman (R-MN) are continuing their effort to strengthen the Pell Grant program to help more students attend college. The bipartisan group of senators is urging the Senate Budget Committee to include the highest fiscally responsible increase in the maximum Pell Grant award in the 2009 Fiscal Year Budget.    » read more »

February 28, 2008 -- Washington, DC – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) today announced introduction of legislation developed with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to help returning veterans transition into colleges and universities and provide support to help them succeed in higher education. The Supporting Education for Returning Veterans Act will provide grants to institutions of higher education to establish one-stop centers to provide services and support to veterans on campus.    » read more »

Austin, TX, February 22, 2008 -- Barack Obama will stand up to special interests and bring people together to create a $4,000 tuition tax credit, increase Pell Grants, and eliminate wasteful bank subsidies    » read more »

February 5, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, DC— Today, the U.S. Department of Education informed Congress that seven Federal Family Education Program lenders will be allowed to resume billing for “9.5% loans,” the category of student loans under which lenders are eligible to receive an inflated 9.5% rate of return.    » read more »

Budget Will Also Address Workforce Shortage Needs in Education, Nursing and Engineering

January 30, 2008 -- Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that her revised budget will include $5 million to support industry-university partnerships in nanotechnology research at Yale University and the University of Connecticut.

Nanotechnology is important in medicine, the defense and energy industries and materials science. A nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter.    » read more »

Names Five to Task Force

Jan. 28, 2008 -- AUSTIN – Texas Governor Rick Perry established the Task Force on Higher Education Incentive Funding, which will make recommendations to the governor, lt. governor and speaker regarding guidelines for implementing higher education incentive funding programs. Incentives for public colleges and universities will be based on student and institutional achievements that are aligned with state and regional priorities.    » read more »

Announces Student Borrowers’ Bill Of Rights, Will Increase College Access for Low-Income Students, Support for HBCU’s and HSI’s

1/25/2008 -- At a speech at Benedict College in South Carolina today, Hillary Clinton announced a plan to protect students and their families from predatory lending practices that have been increasingly prevalent in the private student loan market.    » read more »

Approved Today in Commission Meeting

Jan 22, 2008 -- BATON ROUGE – Today, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal supported the approval of $45 million in bonds for Delta Community College in Monroe, which was voted on and approved in a meeting of the State Bond Commission earlier this afternoon.    » read more »

Largest Teach-in in U.S. History Tackles Global Warming Solutions; 1100 Campuses Nationwide Join Forces to Educate and Demand Change

January 16, 2008 -- PORTLAND, Ore. and RESTON, Va. — On Jan. 31, more than 1100 colleges and universities from all 50 states will participate in Focus the Nation – an unprecedented teach-in on solutions to global warming that will simultaneously educate and energize close to 1 million young adults. A live web cast produced by the National Wildlife Federation from the University of Central Florida on Jan.    » read more »

Developing Solutions that Save Money and Protect Environment

January 15, 2008 -- RESTON, VA, January 15, 2008 — As Congress considers legislation that seeks to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by mid-century, colleges and universities may hold the key. Campuses nationwide have launched climate-driven projects that are taking a significant bite out of emissions along with saving money, according to a new publication from the National Wildlife Federation, Higher Education in a Warming World: The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus.    » read more »

New tools to help school districts improve academic performance and help students prepare for college

January 15, 2008 -- SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today announced the launch of a new voluntary testing program aimed at improving student achievement at the high school level. The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is launching a new program that allows all interested public school districts to test freshmen and sophomores with the EXPLORE and PLAN ACT pre-tests.    » read more »

Announces Proposal to Freeze Tuition for Higher Education for Third Consecutive Year; Historic Level of Capital Funding for Community College

BALTIMORE, MD (January 14, 2008) – Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, joined by Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan, and UMBC President. Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, today announced a tuition freeze for higher education in Maryland for the third consecutive year.    » read more »

20 December 2007 -- The deadly rampage in April on the campus of Virginia Tech left 32 people, and the gunman, dead. Among the victims was freshman Austin Cloyd, who was an active volunteer with the poor. As Faiza Elmasry tells us, this fall, Austin's parents have involved other Virginia Tech students in the volunteer program to carry on their daughter's legacy.    » read more »