According to a new Pew Research Center survey, some 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, which represents a 22-percentage-point increase since the center's previous study of the teen technology landscape in 2014-2015. Half of the girls who took part in the sur
Nevada students attending one of the state’s four community colleges can get help paying for up to three years of tuition and mandatory fees. According to the College of Southern Nevada, a new funding cycle for the Nevada Promise Scholarship was approved by the s
The University of Houston-Clear Lake has a new dean at the College of Science and Engineering. According to a statement on UH-Clear Lake's blog, Miguel A. Gonzalez started work on July 1. Prior, Gonzalez spent 20 years at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley a
The stories of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children have helped shape the conversation around DACA. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allows individuals brought to America as children to
Utah’s largest higher education institution is reporting higher enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year. According to Salt Lake Community College, the college has 6,636 new students this fall, with increases in the number of Latino/Hispanic students (2.9%). “
Hispanic-Serving Institution Week was marked with a variety of events on hundreds of campuses. At Texas State University, which was designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education in 2011, the campus community came together as a collab
In July, the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summer Program offered high school students hands-on experience with UAS equipment and software. Students who completed the UAS summer program received college credit for an Introd
Mental Health Month, established in the spring of 1949, aims to increase awareness of the importance of mental health and wellness in Americans' lives. But the beginning of a new school year in the fall is as good a time as any to highlight the need for increased u
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), a Hispanic-serving institution with 30,000 students, has announced it will open its Spring 2020 registration this October. Listed as an affordable public university by Best Value Schools, students will now be able to regis
West Texas A&M University, a Hispanic-serving institution in Canyon, Texas, has unveiled plans to support family members in the same household who are taking classes at the same time. According to West Texas A&M, families with more than two members enroll
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been tasked with…
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