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Laura Strong, a 29-year-old in suburban Chicago, owes $245,000 on student loans for the psychology Ph.D. she finished in 2013. This year, she says she hopes to earn $35,000 working part-time jobs as a therapist and yoga teacher—not enough to manage a loan payment of about $2,000 a month. But Strong isn’t paying anything close …
Walking across the stage and into debt. That's the reality for many of Mississippi's college grads. The state was named worst for student debt in a recent study by Wallet Hub.
"I wish that I had done some things differently regarding my financial aid for undergraduate as well as graduate," said Andre Terry.
Terry said he doesn't …
NDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital officials say they’re seeing an increasing number of patients right now, and they’re looking to hire more than 60 nurses to help care for them.
Stats from the hospital show the number of inpatient visits grew three percent in 2014, and the number of births there grew 11 …
In order to stay competitive regionally and globally, states have been pushing for more residents to earn a college degree or certificate.
It's an initiative that has been picking up steam across the country, as free-two-year college programs grow and colleges work on closing achievement gaps — all in an effort to get more college credentials …
Elida Gonzalez feared drowning in college debt on her road to a middle-class job, so instead she sold investors a piece of her future.
The now-23-year-old daughter of a farm worker from Santa Maria, Calif., signed up with 13th Avenue Funding, borrowing $15,000 to complete her bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The …
The world of learning analytics is full of metaphors. Educational-technology companies are “islands,” disconnected from one another. Data are locked away in “silos.” As an initiative to standardize the collection and reporting of learning analytics nears a public launch, can colleges and vendors learn to speak the same language?
“Analytics” is one of the hottest buzzwords …
Evidence is mixed, but a new survey indicates it's having greater impact now than on previous generations.
Young adults with student debt are postponing life events like buying a home or car, getting married, and having babies at higher rates than other age groups did, according to a new survey.
Overall, 45% of respondents who ever had …
In advance of the first Republican presidential debate this week, the American Federation of Teachers is trying to call attention to candidates’ ties to the for-profit education industry.
A website registered to the labor union says that “Republicans have embraced for-profits while tearing down public institutions to benefit their blue-chip friends.”
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WASHINGTON — In order to make higher education a reality for more students from diverse backgrounds, colleges and universities must be more proactive about reaching students when they are still in high school.
That was the heart of the message that University of North Carolina Chancellor Carol Folt delivered Tuesday at the National Press Club during …
Members of the class of 2016 will start their final year of college in a couple of weeks. In May, they will earn diplomas and the title of most-indebted graduating class ever. Trends show that with each school year, a new class of students becomes more indebted than the last. The class of 2014 owed …