Editor – Page 13 – College Admissions News

15Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Uncategorized

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...

15Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Uncategorized

Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids? Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox In 2013, families at a Seattle high school raked in more than $100,000 for a raffle to win a Tesla Model S. The year before, the parent teacher association at Garfield High cleared $40,000 in raffle tickets for a Nissan Leaf. Other schools in this tech-boom city rely on lavish galas to raise as much as $422,000 in a single night, and some spend almost as much as they haul in. During the pandemic, parents at the John Stanford International School spent $249,999 — one dollar less than the school district allows before the board steps in to review such spending — on teaching assistants for a dual language program...

A Fading Coal County Bets on Schools, but There’s One Big Hitch

15Jun

By EditorNo Comments

College Rankings

A Fading Coal County Bets on Schools, but There’s One Big Hitch

A Fading Coal County Bets on Schools, but There’s One Big Hitch“I hear it from kids all the time: I want to get out of here,” said Kristin Johnson, a 24-year-old middle school teacher at Mount View who lives in Princeton, W.Va., about an hour’s drive away, and is itching for a teacher job to open there. “Those who do get an education know they can make more money somewhere else.” Ms. Keys returned, in part, out of loyalty. “When I was in high school, we started losing a lot of teachers,” she said. “People feared there would be nobody there to take those jobs.” But a stable teaching job, as well as free housing at her grandmother’s old house, played into her calculations. This may not be enough to hold her, though. Even dating locally is complicated. Her boyfriend lives over an hour away, o...

Combining Online Courses With In-Person Supports, ‘Hybrid Colleges’ Unite

15Jun

By EditorNo Comments

College Planning

Combining Online Courses With In-Person Supports, ‘Hybrid Colleges’ Unite

Combining Online Courses With In-Person Supports, ‘Hybrid Colleges’ Unite Over the past decade, brick-and-mortar outposts have popped up across the U.S. to offer students who take online college courses a physical space to study and interact. In Denver, there’s a suite in an office complex. In Austin, there’s an airy hall that resembles a co-working facility. In Philadelphia, there’s room in a modern high-rise. Calling themselves “hybrid colleges,” these mini campus centers have set big goals for themselves, such as bringing college within reach for people historically left out of higher education. Now, more than a dozen of these nonprofits are strengthening their bonds and committing to shared goals by creating the Hybrid College Network. “The network is incredibly collaborative. They’re ...

3 Questions for Ted Cross, Associate Dean and Academic Program Director at Western Governors University

14Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Graduate Admissions

3 Questions for Ted Cross, Associate Dean and Academic Program Director at Western Governors University

3 Questions for Ted Cross, Associate Dean and Academic Program Director at Western Governors UniversityDr. Ted Cross is the Associate Dean and Academic Program Director at Western Governors University. Ted reached out to me after I wrote about my daughter’s boyfriend’s $84K master’s loan offer, letting me know that WGU is doing things a bit differently. Intrigued, I asked Ted if he’d be willing to answer some of my questions - and he graciously agreed. Q1: What does it cost to get a master’s from WGU? Why is the cost so much lower than almost everyone else? The average WGU College of Business graduate student finishes in about 18-months at a cost of around $13,000. There are several reasons WGU can offer quality master’s degrees at an affordable price. WGU is 100% online and doesn’t have ...

NACAC View: Bans on Critical Race Theory are Harmful to Students and Educators

14Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Financial Aid

NACAC View: Bans on Critical Race Theory are Harmful to Students and Educators

NACAC View: Bans on Critical Race Theory are Harmful to Students and Educators iStockBy Crystal E. Newby and David A. Hawkins To say race relations in the United States have been tumultuous over the last year is an understatement. Many Americans and individuals worldwide watched the horrific footage of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in May 2020. And although one of his killers has since been convicted and jailed, we continue to watch the loved ones of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor fight for justice. It seems like every day there is an incident in the news where a Black student is forced to cut their hair to compete in a sporting event or to walk in their high school graduation ceremony. There have even been instances when white educators made derogatory remarks toward...

14Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Uncategorized

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...

Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

13Jun

By EditorNo Comments

College Rankings

Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?From the moment schools shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that many districts were ill-equipped to support their students from afar. They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. v. California Department of Education, which charges that schools in the state are violating the constitutional rights of children of color by not providing adequate distance education, called out state Departments of Education for failing to provide better WiFi options than visiting a local Taco Bell. It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology...

13Jun

By EditorNo Comments

College Planning

Harvard Class of 2025 Yield

Harvard Class of 2025 YieldJune 8, 2021 Harvard’s yield soared to a record high for the Class of 2025 (photo credit: Caroline Culler). Harvard University has announced that 85% of students admitted to its Class of 2025 will be matriculating. This marks a record yield for the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based institution. To put the figure in context, for the Class of 2024, 81% of admits chose to matriculate. The previous record high yield was for the Class of 2021 when 84% of admits chose to attend Harvard. And in addition to the 85% of admits to the Class of 2025 who will be on campus next fall, 349 students who opted to take a gap year after earning admission to the Class of 2024 will join them this fall. As Vivi E. Lu and Dekyi T. Tsotsong report for The Harvard Crimson in a piece enti...

Verda Tetteh Won a $40,000 Scholarship. Then She Gave It Away.

13Jun

By EditorNo Comments

College Rankings

Verda Tetteh Won a $40,000 Scholarship. Then She Gave It Away.

Verda Tetteh Won a $40,000 Scholarship. Then She Gave It Away. For weeks, Verda Tetteh felt qualms about applying for the $40,000 merit scholarship her high school in Fitchburg, Mass., offered graduating students. She was bound for Harvard, which had agreed to pay her tuition and room and board. Her 4.9 G.P.A. had qualified her for other scholarships that would cover college expenses. Still, her guidance counselor urged her to go for it, telling her she had worked hard and deserved the award known as “The General Excellence Prize.” Ms. Tetteh, 17, applied, figuring that the scholarship, which every year goes to one male and one female student selected by a committee of teachers, administrators and guidance counselors, would probably go to someone else. Then, during her graduation cerem...

Teachers across the country protest laws restricting lessons on racism

12Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Online Colleges

Teachers across the country protest laws restricting lessons on racism

Teachers across the country protest laws restricting lessons on racismOn May 24, Tennessee approved a law that intimidates teachers into lying to students about the role of racism, sexism, and oppression throughout U.S. history. As a part of a national day of action against similar laws being proposed in states nationwide, we’ll walk downtown Memphis to highlight historical markers that describe events in Memphis history that teachers would be forced to lie or omit facts about to ensure compliance with the new law. Overall, the law brings the state government into our classrooms to restrict the ways teachers can discuss race, sexism, and oppression in American history. The law uses vague language to ban teachers from talking about racial/social privilege and responsibility for the effects ...

One year later, child care closures aren’t as bad as feared— but long-term issues still loom

12Jun

By EditorNo Comments

College Planning

One year later, child care closures aren’t as bad as feared— but long-term issues still loom

One year later, child care closures aren’t as bad as feared— but long-term issues still loom Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox When the pandemic shut down much of the country in March 2020, June Shillito reluctantly kept the Yates Baptist Child Development Center in Durham, North Carolina, open. She was nervous about the health of her staff and families, but she wanted to be able to provide an income for her teachers and serve children of essential workers. Even when her enrollment fell from 52 to 11 children, she was able to pay her staff members because the church affiliated with her center received a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan. Although children have slowly returned to the center, Shillito’s classrooms still aren’...

12Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Graduate Admissions

Apply today to attend FIRE’s 2021 Faculty Network Conference!

Apply today to attend FIRE’s 2021 Faculty Network Conference!With conditions improving around the country after more than a year of pandemic precautions, FIRE is excited to resume our in-person programming this year — and with that, we’re delighted to invite applications to attend our Faculty Network Conference! This year’s conference is scheduled to take place from October 14–16 in downtown Chicago, with conference sessions to be held at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center.As in past years, this year’s Faculty Network Conference will bring together a diverse group of faculty from a variety of institutions and academic fields for a weekend of presentations and discussions of core issues affecting academic freedom and faculty rights. (Our call for proposals ended on May 31, and we w...

Nun Stole Over $800,000 to Support Gambling Habit, Prosecutors Say

12Jun

By EditorNo Comments

Online Colleges

Nun Stole Over $800,000 to Support Gambling Habit, Prosecutors Say

Nun Stole Over $800,000 to Support Gambling Habit, Prosecutors Say As a Catholic nun, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper had taken a vow of poverty. But this week, prosecutors said Sister Mary Margaret, 79, had agreed to plead guilty to stealing more than $835,000 from a Catholic elementary school to support a gambling habit and to pay for other personal expenses. Sister Mary Margaret was charged on Tuesday with wire fraud and money laundering while she was the principal of St. James Catholic School in Torrance, Calif., the office of the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California said in a statement. She is scheduled to appear in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles on July 1. Sister Mary Margaret admitted to a “fraudulent scheme” in which she “lulled St. James School and the adm...

Will Fabulous Prizes Entice Students to Come On Down and Get Vaccinated?

12Jun

By EditorNo Comments

College Rankings

Will Fabulous Prizes Entice Students to Come On Down and Get Vaccinated?

Will Fabulous Prizes Entice Students to Come On Down and Get Vaccinated?Million-dollar giveaways. Vacation packages. And yes, even free marijuana. States are getting creative, to say the least, when it comes to enticing adults to get a COVID-19 vaccine. For the under-18 crowd, the incentives are more PG but no less potentially life-changing. They’re getting a shot at thousands of dollars in scholarships. States are trying to buoy interest in vaccinations with an eye on economic recovery and a return to normalcy, including for school reopenings in the fall. But children 12 to 17 have some catching up to do when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination rates. Colorado is hoping to get more youngsters vaccinated by opening a drawing for 25 scholarships worth $50,000 each. In his announcement of the f...