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Students

Latino Blueprint Offers New Ideas for Financial Aid Policy

A leading Hispanic education organization is seeking to shake up current thinking about federal policy with a collection of new ideas that would re-imagine student financial aid for college.

Sports

Number of High School Students Taking College Courses Surges

Report from 2010-2011 school year shows a 67 percent increase from 2002-2003, the last time the National Center for Education Statistics counted.

African-American

Purdue University Freezes Tuition for 2 Years

Purdue University is freezing its tuition costs for the next two years in response to the nation’s lingering weak economy.

International

Hypocrisy, Social Capital, and the Shadow Process

The admissions cycle is in full swing. Applicants are waiting with bated breath as committees pore over files and dole out hope and despair in the form of decision letters.

Leadership & Policy

Ky. Universities Push Senators on Immigration Law

The presidents of Kentucky’s public universities have signed a letter urging the state’s U.S. senators to help overhaul the immigration system.

Community Colleges

Report: High School Dropouts Cost Economy Billions

High school dropouts are costing some $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue every year, education advocates said in a report released Monday.

Students

UNM Working To Increase Black Student Enrollment

The University of New Mexico has hired a recruiter to bring more Black students to the university system.

Sports

One in Four Students Would Delay or Drop Out of School if Federal Financial Aid Were Cut

As yet another budget deadline looms in Congress, the impact of a sequester and automatic budget cuts on individual students has gone largely undiscussed.

Students

College Board Finds AP Mean Exam Scores Rise

Roughly 60.1 percent of the 954,070 students who took an AP exam in 2012 achieved a score of 3 or higher on the five-point AP Exam scale.

Leadership & Policy

UT System Pushing 4-Year Tuition Option

University of Texas System regents on Thursday ordered their campuses to offer students a four-year, fixed-rate tuition option by fall of 2014 to encourage them to graduate on time.

International

Obama Administration Launches College Scorecard

The national movement to make higher education institutions more transparent in terms of their comparative costs and student outcomes got a lift with the launch of the web-based College Scorecard resource tool.

International

Gallup Poll: Americans See Higher Education as Essential, yet Often Unaffordable

The poll found that 71 percent of Americans view higher education as important to a person’s financial security in the future.

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