College Costs: Rising, Yet Often Exaggerated
. The cost of attending college has indeed increased more quickly than inflation in recent years, but it has not risen as fast as many people imagine.
Yall Politics | Looser: COLLEGE BOARD PR on Dan Jones a.
Rick Looser: Anatomy of a PR disaster for College Board Research. Planning. Execution. Evaluation. The tried and true,
Georgia picks fight with College Board over AP history. Guess
WHEREAS, approximately 14,000 Georgia students take the College Boards Advanced Placement U. S. History (APUSH) course each year; and WHEREAS, the APUSH course has traditionally been designed to present a��.
Advanced Placement Italian Test to End
The College Board will drop its Advanced Placement Italian exam at the end of this academic year because it was not attracting enough students.
Bryant criticized for latest COLLEGE BOARD appointees
Black legislative and higher education leaders are protesting Gov. Phil Bryants appointees to the state College Board, saying they lack diversity and representation of historically black public universities. The protest came shortly before a Senate.
I Realized Colleges Look Beyond Grades
Jonathan O., a college student, shares his experience on the College Boards BigFuture website.
Black, Hill run for community college board seats
DANVILLE ��� Incumbent Bill Black and newcomer Tonya Hill are running uncontested for two seats on the Danville Area Community College Board of Trustees during the April 7 general election. The two six-year terms that are expiring are for Black, who has .
Legislative attempt to dissolve College Board fails
JACKSON ��� Citing a lack of time to adequately debate the merits of dissolving the state College Board, lawmakers on Friday said they will let the proposal die in committee rather than try to force the issue this year. State Sen. Gray Tollison, R-Oxford.
Two seats available on Lake Land College board
MATTOON ��� Three candidates are running for two available seats on the Lake Land College Board of Trustees in Tuesdays general election. The candidates are incumbent Gary Cadwell of Mode and challengers Ann S. Deters of Effingham and Gregory G.
SAT Cancellation Spreads to Several States Affected by Storm
. Some 1,500 test centers may be affected in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and other states still recovering from the storm.
Revised SAT Won’t Include Obscure Vocabulary Words
The College Board plans to release many details of its revised test on Wednesday, including sample questions and explanations of the research and goals behind them.. College Board will release many details of its revised SAT, to be introduced in the spring of 2016, including sample questions and explanations of the research, goals and specifications behind them; one big change is in vocabulary questions, which will no longer include obscure words.
Highland Community College board candidates weigh districts financial.
FREEPORT ��� Two Highland Community College trustees, each with two six-year terms behind them, and a younger challenger are vying for two board seats on Tuesdays ballot. Declining enrollment, reductions in state funding, and a deficit in this years .
College board tables controversial contract agenda item
FAIRFIELD ��� A controversial agenda item concerning a $4,000 contract between the Associated Students of Solano College and a consulting group was tabled Wednesday night during the governing board meeting. Yulian Ligioso, the vice president of .
Technical Problems Cause Errors in SAT Test Scores
About 4,000 students who took the test last October received scores as much as 100 points too low because of scanning errors.
Election: Waubonsee Community COLLEGE BOARD of Trustees
Waubonsee Community College Board candidate Jimmie Delgado knows a thing or two about the school, as hes a former student interested in bringing his insight and ideas to the colleges board of trustees. ���I treasured my time as a student at Waubonsee .
Downturn Expected to Drive Tuition Up
Education experts say findings of relatively stable college affordability is outdated, and that colleges will be forced to raise tuition substantially because of the current economy.
Incumbent Benny, newcomer Manning win San Juan.
FARMINGTON ��� Incumbent Evelyn Benny retained her seat on the San Juan College Board while newcomer Byron Manning won the race for an open position in Tuesdays election.
COLLEGE BOARD Shares PSAT Results With Scholarship.
College Board is now giving students the option to have the results from their Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test sent to five more organizations that give scholarships to disadvantaged students.
Value of College Degree Is Growing, Study Says
Despite rising tuition and student-loan debt levels, the long-term payoff from earning a college degree is increasing, the College Board says.
As College Fees Climb, Aid Does Too
College Board reports said that rising tuition had been accompanied by an increase in federal financial aid, which helped keep down the actual amount students pay.
College Board official praised UMMC, administration
During the Feb. 18 meeting of the state College Board, Vice Chairman Alan Perry praised the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Sometimes we spend so much time talking about the money issues, we lose sight of everything else good going on.
Straddling Sides
A sometime-critic of the College Board joins forces with it to build a better Web site.
Despite Rising Sticker Prices, Actual College Costs Stable Over Decade, Study Says
The net cost of a private college works out to about $23,000 this year, a figure that, adjusted for inflation, has not varied much for 10 years.. College Board report finds net cost of tuition, fees, room and board for average student at private, nonprofit college is about 57 percent of sticker price, or $23,000, down from 68 percent in 2003-4; figure adjusted for inflation has not varied much for decade; net cost accounts for increased discounts, grants and tax benefits.
SAT Is Postponed Throughout New York City
. The makeup date is Nov. 17, the weekend before Thanksgiving and two weeks before the regularly scheduled Dec. 1 test.
Johnson County Community College board of trustees: Candidates hope to chart.
Johnson County Community College trustees are the elected officials on the line when deciding the colleges future direction. Three spots on the seven-member board are up for election April 7. Six candidates, including two incumbents, are running, .
The COLLEGE BOARD Distorts US History - Minding The Campus
In a development critiqued by NAS Peter Wood, and also strongly criticized by Stanley Kurtz, the College Board (which coordinates AP classes, but does not answer to state education officials) has issued what Kurtz correctly��.
President to Ease Student Loan Burden for Low-Income Graduates
An expansion of the income-based college-loan repayment program is expected on Wednesday, lowering monthly payments and allowing some loan consolidation.. Pres Obama is expected to announce new program to lower monthly loan payments for some students graduating in 2012 and thereafter; program will also allow some loan consolidation at a lower interest rate.
Looser: Anatomy of a PR disaster for COLLEGE BOARD
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ��� and for good measure ��� throw in websites, blogs and various instant messaging apps. Social media channels proved to be fatal to the state College Board in the early battle to win the hearts and minds of the general public.
Los Angeles Community College board vote remains unresolved
Three candidates with powerful faculty union backing won landslide elections Tuesday to the Los Angeles Community College District governing board. But for the nights photo finish between Andra Hoffman and Francesca Vega ��� who were less than 0.6 .
Behind the Cover Story: Todd Balf on the Coming Changes to the SAT
. Long before the College Board announced that it was changing the SAT, Todd Balf was reporting on why and how they were overhauling the exams.
A Nudge to Poorer Students to Aim High on Colleges
Seniors with high SAT scores are receiving packets from the College Board encouraging them to apply to top colleges, part of a new outreach effort.. College Board, group that administers the SAT, has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges.
COLLEGE BOARD stands behind move to fire Ole Miss chancellor
JACKSON -- Members of Mississippis College Board met Monday and said they arent backing down from a decision to seek a new chancellor for the University of Mississippi, despite rising criticism of the move. Board��.
Blinn College Board Chairman Opposes Raney Bill to.
The chairman of the board of Blinn College has spoken out against a proposal by a local state representative that would change how Blinn allocates its funding.
COLLEGE BOARD gives final approval to student activity fees.
The College Board on Thursday approved plans for Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi to add $5-per-semester fees, and for Jackson State University and Mississippi Valley State University to add��.
UM Alumni: COLLEGE BOARD not justified in Jones decision
The executive committee of the University of Mississippi Alumni Association released the following statement Monday in light of the state College Boards decision to not renew the contract of Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones: It is now well known that the.
Vanier COLLEGE BOARD of Directors opposes budget cuts to.
On March 31, 2015, at a regular meeting, the Vanier College Board of Directors adopted a resolution objecting to the recent announcement by the Quebec government to cut $40 million from the operating budgets of all public��.
Troutman Sanders sends letter to SBC counsel requesting.
March 23, 2015. BY E-MAIL AND U.S. MAIL Counsel to The President and Board of Directors of Sweet Briar College ATTORNEY INFORMATION REDACTED. Re: Saving Sweet Briar. Gentlemen: Our firm represents Saving��.
Sweet Briar COLLEGE BOARD Calls Time, Only to Have.
Sweet Briar College is yet one more case of a board declaring an institution dead only to see its constituency beg to disagree.
Legislature mulls dissolution of COLLEGE BOARD
Even if his proposal fails this year, Tollison said, he wanted to spark an immediate conversation about the role of the state College Board and whether it has outlived its purpose. He noted that other states already have adopted a system giving.
Unfair Advancement
Colleges and universities should return Advanced Placement courses to their original purpose, which was not college admission, but as the name says, advanced placement.
LETTER: Support Deters for college board
It is my pleasure to support Ann Deters, candidate for Lake Land College Board of Trustees, in the upcoming election on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Ann is an outstanding individual who through her education and life experiences understands the Mission .
Grayson College Board considers increasing costs | Herald.
Grayson Colleges Board of Trustees approved increases in the general use fees, adding a technology fee and instituting differential tuition for the registered nursing program. All of the increases, which the Board OKed earlier��.
College board to name new trustee
The Navarro College Board of Trustees is expected to name its pick for a vacancy on the board when it meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cook Center at Navarro College. Dr. James Price stepped down from the board in January after moving out of Precinct 3 .
Blacks Less Likely to Take A.P. Exam
A College Board report said that its A.P. program was growing steadily, but, as in most aspects of American education, troubling ethnic gaps remain.
COLLEGE BOARD Drops Plans for Summer SAT
Just days after word that the College Board would offer an unusual summertime SAT to students enrolled in a preparatory course conducted by the National Society for the Gifted & Talented, the plan has been dropped.. College Board drops plans to offer an unusual summertime SAT to students enrolled in a preparatory course conducted by the National Society for the Gifted & Talented at the Amherst College campus, just days after announcing the course, due to complaints that only students taking the course were allowed to take it.
AUDIO: COLLEGE BOARD VP Alan Perry follows up on refusal.
NewsWatch Station Manager Sudu Upadhyay and The Daily Mississippian Editor-in-Chief Lacey Russell interview Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Vice President Alan Perry on Dan Jones non-contract renewal.
SAT Changes Policy, Opening Rift With Colleges
Some highly selective schools have said they will not go along with Score Choice, a new policy allowing students to select which of their multiple scores colleges can see.
Why I am running for Portland Community COLLEGE BOARD.
By Courtney Wilton of Portland, Oregon. Courtney is a current PCC board member running for election this spring. My name is Courtney Wilton and Im a member of the Portland Community College Board of Directors..
Heritage High School to Participate in the COLLEGE BOARDs.
Said Trevor Packer, senior vice president for AP and Instruction at the College Board: ���We are proud to offer AP Capstone, which enables students and teachers to focus on topics of their choice in great depth. This provides��.
College board members sworn in, approves spring graduate list
District Court Judge David Reeb swore in recently elected members Ken Merritt and Ray Mondragon on Wednesday at the Clovis Community College board meeting. The board also unanimously approved the Spring 2015 graduation list. Of 315 graduates .
Ole Miss chancellor - WAPT.com
After a two-hour closed meeting, the College Board has not reached an agreement on the future of Dan Jones.
Annual Rise in Cost of Public College Slows
A mildly hopeful sign of moderation in a category in which prices have risen faster than inflation for years.. Annual College Board reports on trends in pricing and aid shows that tuition and fees at public universities increased less than 3 percent for 2013-14 academic year, smallest rise in three decades; numbers are mildly hopeful sign of moderation in category in which prices have risen faster than inflation for years.