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Quote of the day:
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
ISU students, Latinos key to accurate Census count (Bloomington Pantagraph)
NORMAL — Illinois State University students make up nearly 40 percent of Normal’s population and could bring about $2.4 million in state money to the town’s coffers.
State Cuts Are Pushing Public Colleges Into Peril (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Nevada, in particular, faces deep reductions and demanding demographics
COMMENTARY: Huck Finn Is Everywhere (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Last spring, while I was checking in at my doctor's office, I struck up a conversation with the receptionist, who shared that he was an engineering student at a nearby California State technical college. The institution had already announced that all summer courses were canceled, and he had just found out that, very likely, none of the classes he needed to complete his degree would be offered in the fall.
Audit: ISU lax in protecting sensitive information (Daily Herald)
SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois State University has been lax about keeping sensitive information out of the wrong hands.
Hope Amid Disappointment (Inside Higher Ed)
After a year of high hopes, the apparent shedding of the American Graduation Initiative from combined health care/student aid legislation has left many community college officials deeply disappointed.
Glazebrook spoke from the heart, wore a Stetson (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
During the last few weeks, Leland Glazebrook hoped to get back to the next Lake Land College Board of Trustees meeting.
Serving as a trustee of the college board for 34 years was a joy for the Sullivan man. On Sunday, his service to the college ended when he died at the age of 88.
Audit: ISU lax in protecting sensitive information (Springfield State Journal-Register)
Illinois State University has been lax about keeping sensitive information out of the wrong hands.
That's according to a report by Illinois Auditor General Bill Holland.
Eliminate senior year to save schools money? (Springfield State Journal-Register)
In February, Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars offered his state’s high school seniors, taxpayers and stressed-out teachers a plan to cut the state’s budget shortfall by $60 million.
States relieved by school plan (Stateline.org)
One state at a time, the push for common school graduation standards has been gaining traction. In just five years, the number of states with such standards for college and career-readiness has increased from three to 31.
Array of Hurdles Awaits New Education Agenda (The New York Times)
In the blueprint for overhauling federal education policy that President Obama sent to Congress on Monday, his administration seeks to confront some of the major educational challenges that have developed during the eight years that President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law has been a powerful influence on the nation’s public schools.
Quinn to discuss importance of community colleges (The Southern Illinoisan)
CICERO (AP) - Gov. Pat Quinn is scheduled to talk about the importance of community colleges.
Quinn will appear at Morton Community College in the western Chicago suburb of Cicero on Tuesday morning.
JALC board to meet about future layoffs (The Southern Illinoisan)
CARTERVILLE — The inevit-able may have arrived at John A. Logan College as the board of trustees prepare to decide whether to layoff as many as 11 members of faculty and staff during a special meeting at 7 p.m. today on campus.
Assembling the dome (The Southern Illinoisan)
CARBONDALE — Students from Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s architecture school participated in the spontaneous construction of a geodesic dome Monday.
What if a college education just isn't for everyone? (USA TODAY)
WATERLOO, Wis. — Debbie Crave once assumed that all of her children would go to college. Then she had kids.
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