CNN's Brooke Baldwin reports on a program that helps inner city high school kids reach college...
...(Molly) Greer graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin. She arrived at PS 212, the multicultural magnet school in the Bronx, New York, two years ago with a degree in political science and a desire to change the world...Teach for America is like a local Peace Corps serving some of the country's poorest public schools in inner cities and in rural areas. It has grown every year since its inception in 1990, sending 20,000 college graduates into the nation's neediest classrooms for a two-year commitment. This year, amid a tight job market, it is more popular than ever. About 35,000 college seniors applied for the 2009 school year, a 42 percent jump from last year...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to dismantle the Cal Grant program would make California the first state in the recession-battered nation to eliminate student financial aid while raising college tuition, experts said this week...The governor's proposal would end all new Cal Grants, eventually eliminating the state's main financial aid program for college students, and prevent existing awards from increasing. Grants awarded to 118,000 freshmen starting college in the fall would be canceled, as well as hikes in 82,255 continuing awards promised when the University of California and California State University raised fees this month by 10% and 9.3%, respectively...
Want to take a cross country trip to visit colleges all over the United States, but don't want to shell out thousands for gas, food and lodging? A Boynton Beach, Fla., company says it has the solution. YOUniversityTV.com is touting itself as the first Web site providing video tours of college campuses. There are about 400 colleges, spanning from Florida to California to Hawaii. The segments are about 10 minutes each and feature a team of young hosts, most of whom are just out of college themselves...
American colleges should use the current financial crisis as an opportunity to develop more creative and cost-effective approaches to education abroad and to the recruitment of foreign students. That was the message delivered Thursday during the annual meeting here of Nafsa: Association of International Educators... (paid subscription required)
Full-time students have accounted for a growing share of college enrollments in recent years -- especially at two-year institutions -- as the number of students coming out of high schools has steadily risen, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S. Education Department. The report, a compendium of data published annually by the department's National Center for Education Statistics, also shows that black students have been making major strides in gaining access to graduate education and that women, for the first time, account for at least half of all degrees earned at each level of postsecondary education... (paid subscription required)
Among the greatest frustrations of campus mental health professionals is that those who need help the most may never seek out services that are available. "If you talk to college counseling directors about those on their campuses who have committed suicide, most of them never entered their centers," said Henry Chung, to many nods here, at a session at the annual meeting of the American College Health Association...
