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GVSU Triples Number Of Students Eligible For Scholarship

Grand Valley State University is tripling the number of students who can qualify for its new Grand Finish scholarships, making the $1,000 awards available to about 4,000 students.
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U of I Unloads On Birds With Cannon’s Kaboom

The University of Illinois has invested in a little bit of artillery in its effort to keep birds out of cattle feed at the schools' dairy farm.
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Court: University Must Fund Prayer Activities

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that the University of Wisconsin-Madison must pay for student activities involving prayer, worship and proselytizing.
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Federal Work Study: Making It Work

Federal Work-Study (FWS) is the place where federal aid requirements, employers' needs, students' schedules, and human resources laws all converge. At best it's an administrative headache; at worst, students can miss opportunities for meaningful jobs and lower debt. An Innovative Approach to Work-Study, a recent Transcript article by Gayle Dohrman Young, describes how Central Washington University took control of their FWS program to provide better service, connect students with more career-related jobs, and make the program more manageable.
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First Report From Research Center Created by U. of Phoenix Attacks Critics of For-Profit Education (Chronicle of Higher Education)

"Two years ago, the founders of the University of Phoenix announced plans to create an independent, nonpartisan research institute to examine meaty educational issues affecting nontraditional students and for-profit higher education," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "But for its first report, released Thursday, the Nexus Research and Policy Center has produced a 77-page document that is far longer on advocacy than analysis. The report, 'For-Profit Colleges and Universities: America's Least Cost and Most Efficient System of Higher Education,' sings the praises of the University of Phoenix and other for-profit colleges."
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Judge Rejects Cal State Student’s Challenge to Fee Increase

A California judge has dismissed a student's claim that last-minute tuition increases imposed on students by California State University campuses were unfair, the San Francisco Chronicle reported . A San Francisco State University student had asked the small claims court to refund her share of the additional tuition increase the Cal State system imposed in July 2009 in the wake of huge budget cuts. A class action aiming to overturn the tuition increase is working its way through the courts, too.
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New USD Coyote Village

College students are heading back to the books, and that means back to student living. While many upperclassmen opt to live off-campus, at the University of South Dakota, officials may have found a way to pull them back on.
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S.F. State Student Loses Case Over Fee Increase

San Francisco State University has no obligation to refund a student additional fees it charged after CSU trustees approved a last-minute tuition increase last year, a San Francisco court has decided.
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Phoenix Pays to Tell Its Story (Inside Higher Ed)

"While Kaplan Higher Education has The Washington Post brand and the backing of the Graham family to boost its reputation and to give Kaplan officials a chance to respond to any negative news about for-profit colleges, Phoenix doesn't have a similar way of ensuring that its voice is heard in media coverage," Inside Higher Ed reports. "In hopes of conveying Phoenix's side of the for-profit college debate even when reporters on deadline don't come calling, the company has begun sponsoring media events. ... The University of Phoenix is the top-billed sponsor of NBC News's Education Nation, two days of events and a week's worth of coverage on NBC properties scheduled to begin later this month."
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