NORWOOD, Ohio— Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as “a GREAT employee.” But it’s all nostalgia. […]
“The first thing that I would like the new director to do,” said college President Jose Fierro, “is actually to create an official database of students or graduates and then start sorting that database by fields.” Fierro recognizes this is a baby step, but he thinks it’s an important one. As the college began to […]
Lulu Matute still remembers the sinking sensation she felt when she heard the news. It was the fall of 2012, and Ms. Matute had just taken the placement exam that gauged every prospective college student’s skill in math and English. She had hoped to earn her associate’s degree at the City College of San Francisco […]
Penn State Lehigh Valley student Daniel Omron grew up living paycheck to paycheck, so his mom’s advice to earn a college degree resonated. It became their shared dream for him. But when his mother became terminally ill with cancer while he was in school, he became her primary caretaker, putting that in jeopardy. Between his […]
KINGMAN – Michael Kearns wants to raise the number of Mohave County residents with an associates degree by just 1 percent a year, which would require 320 graduates from Mohave Community College. That’s about twice as many graduates as the college currently produces, he said Monday at the Conservative Republican Club of Kingman monthly meeting […]
CRANSTON, R.I. — Brenda Dann-Messier, Rhode Island’s new commissioner of postsecondary education, hasn’t given up on the governor’s plan to offer two years of free tuition to the state’s four-year colleges. “I’m hoping we go back to the governor’s original proposal,” she said during an interview on Tuesday. Dann-Messier, who was appointed to her post […]
NORWOOD, Ohio— Herbie Mays is 3M proud, and it shows — in the 3M shirt he wears; in the 3M ring he earned after three decades at the company’s plant in suburban Cincinnati; in the way he shows off a card from a 3M supervisor, praising Mays as “a GREAT employee.” But it’s all nostalgia. […]
College students return to campus next week. Unfortunately, the state’s budget mess will hit many of them in the pocketbook. Massive cuts have slashed more than $36 million from what was originally approved for community colleges and state universities this fall. Education is being sacrificed at the expense of tax breaks for special interests and […]
It’s as sad as it is ironic that institutions of higher education can’t seem to understand such a basic concept as free expression. This past month, yet another Michigan school, this time Macomb Community College, was sued for violating the speech rights of students. Campus police ticketed students for failing to obtain a required permit […]
More than 40 years ago, a young adult with very modest family means began an uncertain journey in higher education. It was fraught with many pitfalls and unknowns because this aspiring collegian was one of 13 children and had to finance his college education on his own through a mixture of loans, grants, scholarships and […]