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Eight: Getting PC Pro Schools Scholarships to Defray College Tuition, Part 2

Published on May 4, 2011 By

If you have done the search for local or PC Pro Schools scholarships already then you have also taken stock of your own goals and what you have to offer.  The next step in defraying college tuition is to apply for state and national scholarships. The locations you can look for this information include some [...]

The Importance of a Technical Education in the Modern Workplace

Published on November 19, 2010 By

Minneapolis Technical School
You don’t need me to tell you it’s tough in the employment market right now. It’s on the news and in the papers every day. Labor markets have always been competitive. It’s essential to drive innovation and force us to improve ourselves. Technical colleges have a significant role to play in helping us [...]

Student body president in CA is illegal immigrant (AP)

Published on November 18, 2010 By rohit

FRESNO, Calif. – The popular student body president at California State University, Fresno has publicly revealed a personal detail he long sought to keep secret: He is an illegal immigrant

NYC mayor’s choice for schools stays under wraps (AP)

Published on November 17, 2010 By

NEW YORK – The magazine executive Mayor Michael Bloomberg chose to lead New York’s sprawling public school system has spent the week shuttling between her Park Avenue apartment building and her office at Hearst Magazines, shadowed by City Hall aides who are briefing her on education issues. Bloomberg’s curveball choice of Cathie Black for the post of schools chancellor has upset some city leaders, who have petitioned the state to deny her permission to serve, blasted her lack of education experience and urged the mayor to instead conduct a public search for the person who will head the country’s largest public school system at 1.1 million students

Rejected High Schooler Speaks (The Advocate)

Published on November 17, 2010 By

Los Angeles – When Kelsey Hicks turned 18, she followed in the footsteps of her father before her and left the house to live on her own, despite still being a student at Del City High School, just outside of Oklahoma City. Hicks lives with her girlfriend and her girlfriend’s 2-year-old child, she told The Advocate Tuesday evening. She said that because she holds down two jobs and shares child rearing responsibilities, she decided to enroll in night school to complete her high school education, but immediately didn’t feel safe in her new surroundings.

Study: 30 private college presidents made more than $1 million (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on November 16, 2010 By rohit

Parents struggling with high tuition bills might be fuming when they look at the list of the top-paid presidents of private colleges and universities. The annual analysis of tax records by the Chronicle of Higher Education found 30 top executives – out of the 448 institutions the Chronicle surveyed – received a total compensation of more than $1 million in 2008

Million-Dollar College Presidents (The Daily Beast)

Published on November 16, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – Just as the cost of college has been rising, so have the paychecks for college presidents. A new study ranks the 30 academic heavyweights who pulled in more than $1 million a year. College is expensive, and the most expensive are private four-year institutions, with an average tuition of $35,000 per year .

US sees jump in overseas students: official (AFP)

Published on November 16, 2010 By

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A record 690,923 international students are studying at colleges and universities in the United States, with a greater influx of students from China, the US State Department said Monday. The international student roll for the 2009-2010 academic year was three percent higher than the previous year.

8 Big Changes to College Admissions in 2010 and 2011 (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 15, 2010 By rohit

Colleges, swamped by applications from increasingly anxious high schoolers, are changing their admissions rules to weed out applicants who try to game the system by getting easy A’s or plagiarizing their essays. Interviews with admissions officers at some of the nation’s most popular colleges reveal recent and important shifts in the weighting of traditional admission factors

They Blew Through Millions (The Daily Beast)

Published on November 14, 2010 By

NEW YORK – Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina claimed they wanted to help the world by dipping their toes into politics—but their failed races were mostly about ego. How could they have better spent a combined $217 million? How about college tuition for 23,000?