Tag: education
Inland Education Collaborative awarded $5 million
An Inland Empire collaborative has been selected to receive a $5 million Governor’s Award for Innovation in Higher Education, the maximum amount possible. The...
Editorial: Community colleges can contribute to California’s need for degrees
Community colleges in California have recently received approval to start running pilot programs for four-year degrees. The program will allow for community colleges to...
Editorial: Obama college rating system will work with some changes
With the Super Bowl over and the people who legally agreed upon deals with friends whereby some would be given money in the event...
President Obama offers free community college
On Jan. 8, President Barack Obama announced a proposal that offers two years of free community college tuition to students who meet certain requirements....
Highlander Newsroom 01/14/15
This week on the Highlander Newsroom, we tackle the issue of paying for a college education. We open with how UCR students are paying...
Why teaching kids how to interact with police will hurt both...
No one can adequately deny that there are often problems with police abuse of power, from intimidation to unlawful searches. In an attempt to...
Letter to the Editor: Tuition Hikes Are Unfair
According to the think tank Demos, $2,100 was the average price of tuition for an academic year when I was in college in the...
Letter to the Editor: Regarding the UC Proposal to Increase Tuition
I fundamentally reject UC President Janet Napolitano’s proposal to increase tuition up to 5% for 5 years. Like countless other UC students, I know...
UC, College Board work to recruit underrepresented students
The University of California Office of the President (UCOP) announced on Oct. 21 that it will begin a collaboration called the “All In” campaign...
Letter to the Editor: Response to ‘Affirmative action not needed to...
Is diversity important in higher education? And, if so, what programs and measures foster diversity?
For some time now, the idea of affirmative action in...