Obama Administration’s Agenda for Higher Education

US Department of Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter discusses how the Department can help America reach President Obama’s goal of having the “best educated, most competitive workforce in the world” by 2020?

Sustainability in Higher Education

The University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), and California Community College (CCC) Investor-Owned Utility (IOU) Energy Efficiency Partnerships are unique, statewide energy efficiency programs, achieving cost-effective, immediate, and persistent peak energy and demand savings. Moreover, each establishes a permanent framework for a sustainable, long-term, comprehensive energy management at the nearly 150 UC, CSU, [...]

Higher Learning: Studen debt

With Congress still considering a major financial services reform bill, one of the issues being discussed is extending bankruptcy protection to some student loans. If you run up huge credit card bills buying a fancy car or an expensive sound system for your house, that debt can be erased by a bankruptcy court judge. But [...]

Machage, Kapondi, Kutuny arrested

www.ntv.co.ke Three MPs have been arrested for allegedly engaging in hate speech. Roads assistant minister Wilfred Machage, Mount Elgon MP Fred Kapondi and Cherengany MP Joshua Kutuny had presented themselves to the police at parliament buildings before they were detained. They are now at CID headquarters. Early on Tuesday morning, Higher Education minister William Ruto [...]

TT Interviews the Texas Higher Education Commissioner

Austin, TX. June 16, 2010. Raymond Paredes sits down with the Texas Tribune.

The high cost of higher education: Is it worth it?

www.thetakeaway.org This year 3.2 million students are expected to graduate from high school and of those, roughly 70 percent will go on to get a college education. But with two-thirds of college graduates carrying debt—and the average student loan debt topping 000 dollars—is a college degree worth it? What does it get you in today’s [...]