| Editorial: Illinois lawmakers leave college students in a financial bind Chicago Sun-Times - In Illinois, college students don’t rate as high as lottery players. If they did, lawmakers would by now be funding the state’s Monetary Award Program, which annually helps needy students in Illinois attend schools in this state...... |
| Illinois's college-entrance test in flux The Southern - Southern Illinois’s high school juniors may have spent the past two-and-a-half years preparing to take the ACT college-entrance exam, but if state policy holds, they’ll be taking the rival SAT instead this spring..... |
| Missouri technical school flush with cash, short on students AP - ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis technical college is flush with money to help students from poor areas get a post-secondary education, but it's having a hard time finding participants to use the funds..... |
| UC applications break records for 12th straight year UC Press - More than 206,000 students applied to attend the University of California as undergraduates in fall 2016, an overall jump of 6.4 percent over fall 2015 and the twelfth consecutive year of record-breaking high numbers of applicants, according to preliminary data released today (Jan. 11)..... |
| California must beware of gap between public, private colleges Sacramento Bee - Over the past year, I have watched my daughter Alexa navigate the challenges and stresses of applying to college. It has been a treat visiting campuses around the country, but it has also opened my eyes to the growing disparity in investment between public and private institutions.... |