Posts Tagged ‘Inside Higher Education’
Obama’s FY13 Budget Would Boost Community Colleges, Reward Tuition Restraint
by John O. Harney
February 14, 2012
President Obama's proposed FY 2013 budget would encourage community college partnerships with employers, target student aid for colleges that restrain tuition prices, and increase overall spending on U.S. Education Department programs by 2.5% to nearly $70 billion. That would be the largest percentage increase for any domestic department in the president's proposed federal budget ...
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Among Comings and Goings, Pennington Leaving Gates Foundation; New Ed Commish in Conn.
by John O. Harney
September 7, 2011
Hilary Pennington, who has led the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success efforts for the past five years, emailed her colleagues that she was leaving the foundation. Before joining Gates, she was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and CEO of Jobs for the Future, which she co-founded. Inside ...
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Despite Bad Press and Financial Hits, For-Profit Colleges Could Be Key Source of Transfers
by Darrell P. Aaron
February 5, 2011
In a recent article in Inside Higher Education, transfer expert Marc Cutright of the University of North Texas writes about the growing importance that four-year colleges and universities should place on students transferring from community college. Public colleges, led by community colleges, grant more than a half million associate degrees annually and the number grew ...
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