An army man, electrician, and now teacher, this student’s next step is an online master’s in education.

Naturalized citizens and permanent residents have options for college funds; here are some sources.

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Business students say acting courses have taught them about teamwork, public speaking, and leadership.

“Experts have attributed the rise in state school tuition to a whole host of factors, but the basic story of the past decade looks like this: State legislators are slashing funding, which requires college to either cut costs or raise tuition,” Jordan W…

This Electronic Announcement provides information necessary to apply for participation in the Work Colleges Program for the 2012-13 Award Year. A school must apply electronically via the eCampus-Based (eCB) website and submit a printout of that applica…

“The president deserves credit for calling out soaring tuition and unsustainable student debt as huge barriers to upward mobility and a strong middle class,” Matt Miller writes for the Washington Post. “But unfortunately, the remedies he sketched in h…

“The White House was purposefully vague on the college affordability plan that it announced last week because the administration wants the higher education community to help shape the plan, a White House official told a group of higher education leader…

“Usually low-tier, last week President Obama signaled in both the State of the Union and a University of Michigan speech that higher education will loom large in Campaign 2012,” Neal McCluskey writes in Investor’s Business Daily. “With Americans outra…

“Just four days after President Obama made an impassioned speech warning colleges that they may risk losing federal funds if they do not keep tuition costs under control, a top White House official reassured a group of presidents and representatives fr…

“As part of ongoing efforts to improve the higher education financial aid delivery system, the IRS and Department of Education are working together within the FAFSA application process,” Doug A. Schantz writes for Cheap Scholar.org. “That work will cau…

“New students are more likely to drop out of online colleges if they take full courseloads than if they enroll part time, according to findings from a research project that is challenging conventional wisdom about student success,” Inside Higher Ed r…

“It was good to hear President Barack Obama speak to the issue of higher-education funding in his State of the Union address,” Washington State University President Elson S. Floyd writes for the Seattle Times. “The skyrocketing cost of tuition has cre…

“Cutbacks to higher education are causing a brain drain at Washington public universities, and the state is gaining a national reputation for the severity of cuts, the presidents of Washington’s six four-year higher-education institutions said Wednesda…

“As President Obama quite rightly insisted in his State of the Union address, institutions of higher learning must do more to hold down their costs if college education is to remain affordable for the next generation of young people,” the Washington P…