Students in short-term workforce education programs will soon get some help covering tuition costs. The recently-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Pell Grants to workforce programs as short as ...

Two years ago, Camille Charleston moved from Haiti to the United States, hoping to escape “survival mode” and pursue the American dream. Charleston, 29, didn’t have enough money to pay for college, ...

MENOMONIE, Wis. (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT PRESS RELEASE) - University of Wisconsin-Stout will work closely with Wisconsin businesses to ensure a recently announced $2 million federal grant will ...

Four-year colleges and universities won nearly half of the FIPSE grants awarded for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell, surprising some community college leaders who have spent decades ...

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) today announced seven new priorities under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) for the Fiscal Year 2025 grant competition, earmarking ...

College enrollment continued to grow this fall, increasing by 2 percent compared to fall 2024, according to preliminary fall data released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The ...

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Joanne Scott had been without full-time work for about two decades and was struggling to reenter the workforce. Then she learned this year about a short-term pharmacy technician program at Mt. San ...