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Creighton University accounting students staff tax assistance clinics | Local News
Creighton University accounting students are offering free tax assistance to qualifying taxpayers as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The students will offer services from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Saturdays listed below at the Mike and Josie Harper Center on the Creighton campus in Omaha […]
Passion for Helping Students Leads to National Recognition for EKU faculty member
Nov. 23—According to a press release from EKU, Everyone needs a person. Someone who mentors, scolds, encourages, influences, challenges, impacts. Starr Wentzel gladly serves as that person for dozens of first-generation college students at Eastern Kentucky University. Wentzel, director of EKU’s first-year courses and learning communities, was recently named Outstanding […]
English as a Second Language tutor Linda Merritt learns from her adult students
By Dorothy de Souza Guedes, for The Gazette How would you define the word cute, as in “your child is cute”? Could you explain the idiom, “It’s raining cats and dogs,” to someone who doesn’t speak English? Linda Merritt’s students often interrupt with random questions like these, but she doesn’t […]
Students with poor A-levels may be denied student loans under Government plans
Student loans may not be available for teenagers with poor A-level results, under Government plans to overhaul university funding. Ministers are considering the imposition of minimum entry requirements on institutions in an attempt to crack down on the number of students taking up places at university which they are not […]
Coronavirus spurs students to seek public health degrees
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — When COVID-19 hit, Jakira Lewis put her academics into practice. A second-year student at the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health, Lewis dove into working as a case investigator and contact tracer. “It was really exciting at first getting that firsthand experience,” she […]
First UH medical school students adapt during pandemic
The current COVID-19 crisis has only strengthened the passion of the 30 students who make up the College of Medicine’s inaugural class. HOUSTON — The pandemic has affected so many people in different ways including those on a mission to help others. For the 30 students who make up the […]
Learning pods serve as last effort to save truancy students from the court system for missed school and work
MANSFIELD, Ohio — The brutal balancing act families are facing isn’t new. Teresa Alt Executive Director, of the Richland County Youth and Family Council, says parents are forced to ask themselves, “am I going to, you know, stay home and make sure my kid gets online, or am I going […]
New Portland tech institute touts 3-year plan to attract 1,000 graduate students
The Roux Institute, a new graduate school and research center in Portland, outlined its three-year plan on Tuesday to attract 1,000 students and create 200 cooperative learning slots at Maine companies. The institute, started last January and named after donors David Roux, a wealthy technology investor and a Lewiston native, […]
Pandemic’s toll shows up on students’ college applications
In a college application season like no other, students who have seen every aspect of their lives disrupted by the coronavirus are grappling with how to show their potential. High school seniors around the U.S. are facing January and February college application deadlines without SAT and ACT entrance exam scores, […]
Pandemic’s toll shows up on students’ college applications
High school senior Gabriella Staykova poses for a photo at her home in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. As a senior, she planned on visiting college campuses during the last spring break, but with campuses closed due to the pandemic, she is applying to colleges sight unseen. (AP Photo/Timothy […]
Hull Memorial Scholarship to support minority OHS students | News
OLEAN — Dr. Robert E. Hull was a lifelong learner who knew the value of higher education. His appetite for knowledge and desire to make a difference led him to a rewarding and successful career in veterinary medicine. Hull believed that young people can do anything they set their minds […]
This year, an Anchorage program to help struggling students graduate is confronting a much greater need
Last week, Anchorage teacher Barb Dexter received a text from one of her ninthgrade students and stopped speaking midsentence during an interview. It was only 14 degrees that day. The student, who is homeless, was stuck outdoors with a young sibling and nowhere to go. “I have to make sure […]
COVID: When can Fresno State, CSU students return to class?
Spurred by the approval of coronavirus vaccines, the 23-campus California State University is planning to return to mostly in-person learning by fall 2021, according to an announcement Wednesday from outgoing CSU Chancellor Timothy White. The universities, including Fresno State, were among the first in the nation to switch to distance […]
Government urged to clarify rules for EU students amid fears of tuition fee hike
The Government has been urged to clarify rules for EU students with settled status post-Brexit, amid fears they could be facing “extremely unjust” tuition fee hikes. Students who currently reside in the UK and have been granted settled status are still unclear whether they will be classed as international or […]
Students learning in Fresno COVID pandemic pod see progress
For the past four months, Pastor Rici Skei has been welcoming nearly a dozen students into her Lowell neighborhood church for what some have been missing since the pandemic shut down schools in March — mentorship, meals, and socialization. Skei has been a Lowell resident for 14 years, finding ways […]
My Wife Was In Septic Shock In The ICU, And Still Worrying About Her Students
In late October, my wife developed a pretty nasty case of pneumonia that turned into septic shock. Now for those of you who are unfamiliar with this condition, it’s when your body develops a bad infection, and as a reaction, your organs begin to shut down. I didn’t know any […]
Spring surge of college students will challenge Covid defenses
But experts warn the effort took extensive planning, major campus buy-in, money and help from relatively low community infection rates. Without that kind of surveillance, colleges risk becoming hot spots where the virus races through dorms, parties and surrounding areas. “They’re not ready, by and large,” said Chris Marsicano, director […]
Rockwood and Normandy schools send students to virtual learning ahead of winter break
ST. LOUIS – Changes are coming to the Rockwood School District and Normandy Schools Collaborative. St. Peters pregnant woman stabbed to death, man she met online charged with murder Rockwood schools are taking a couple of days off to prevent COVID spread and quarantining ahead of the winter break. The […]
School closings threaten gains of students with disabilities
Paraprofessional Jessica Wein helps Josh Nazzaro stay focussed while attending class virtually from his home in Wharton, N.J., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Without any in-school special education services for months, Nazzaro’s normally sweet demeanor has sometimes given way to aggressive meltdowns that had been under control before the pandemic. The […]