March 31, 2005

As the first day of school approaches, parents of tweens and teens are busy loading up on notebooks and mechanical pencils, buying jumbo packages of lunchtime snacks, shopping for just the right clothing and filling the family calendar with concerts, practice and game dates.

Building a college campus in downtown Mesa would give residents access to higher education, help revitalize central Mesa and allow students to use major city facilities, including the new Mesa Arts Center and planned aquatic facility, according to a consultant’s draft report.

Arizona is getting a $1.5 million grant as the first step toward establishing "no-frills" programs within the university system where students will be able to get degrees for less than they now cost.

CHICAGO - Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam. The quest for money that begins for students and parents every January has taken on new urgency in 2009 amid fears that loans and grants will be scarcer than in the past due to the recession.

It will take a few months before Arizona’s university and community college leaders have a full picture of how the governor’s proposed budget cuts will impact their institutions.

MIAMI — In a new study upending decades of conventional wisdom, Florida International University researchers found that neither age, education, gender, nationality nor household income were major factors in determining whether a startup venture would take flight or flounder.

As a parent knee-deep in division, the fundamentals of reading and — for my toddler — the recognition of A, B and C, college seems a long way from now.

LOS ANGELES - Students arriving for fall classes at colleges across the country are facing technological hurdles and stern warnings aimed at ending swapping of music and movie files over high-speed campus Internet connections.

Mesa has a deal to bring a third college to its downtown, a liberal arts institution that will offer an accelerated degree program for non-traditional students.

Washington -- Arizona college students graduated with some of the smallest levels of student debt in the country last year, according to a national report released Thursday.

Arizona State University’s College of Extended Education was designed to provide courses at flexible times for working adults, yet 62 percent of their online students are undergraduates squeezing in an extra course from the comfort of home.

Arizona State University’s College of Extended Education was designed to provide courses at flexible times for working adults, yet 62 percent of their online students are undergraduates squeezing in an extra course from the comfort of home.

Our View: Homegrown ingenuity and dedicated marketing of community strengths are essential sparks for long-term economic stability. So it will be exciting to watch Mesa and Gilbert take advantage of a newly identified confluence of educational institutions along Power Road to market both cities to potential new employers.

Our View: Homegrown ingenuity and dedicated marketing of community strengths are essential sparks for long-term economic stability. So it will be exciting to watch Mesa and Gilbert take advantage of a newly identified confluence of educational institutions along Power Road to market both cities to potential new employers.

Our View: Homegrown ingenuity and dedicated marketing of community strengths are essential sparks for long-term economic stability. So it will be exciting to watch Mesa and Gilbert take advantage of a newly identified confluence of educational institutions along Power Road to market both cities to potential new employers.

May 25, 2004

A key state lawmaker slammed a proposal to expand the state’s university system, saying Monday that it was a move to undermine efforts to offer four-year degrees at community colleges.

A recent decision by Mesa Community College and Mesa to go forward on a plan to build a downtown campus with or without a bond issue represents a major change — but officials are not offering an explanation for the sudden reversal.

College graduates typically earn more than non-college graduates over their lifetimes, yet the average 30-year-old who earned a bachelor’s degree in 2004 is most likely ineligible today for a home mortgage because of a high debt-to-income ratio.

The urban downtown campus long envisioned by Mesa Community College and a host of partners is beginning to take shape.

The urban downtown campus long envisioned by Mesa Community College and a host of partners is beginning to take shape.

Spring has arrived, and for high-school students and their parents, life can't get much busier as graduation and post-graduation plans start to take shape.

Indiana hopes to entice Bill Gates wannabees from the East Valley to build the next Microsoft-like empire in the Hoosier state.