Greater Cleveland Partnership – the region’s biggest business group – hosted its second annual “Summer in the Land” networking event. Here’s what some interns told Signal Cleveland about their future plans and how Cleveland stacks up.
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Posted inTampa Bay
Water Street, Midtown, USF? School high on golf course potential
Trustees envision a major mixed-use development coming to the shuttered Claw at USF golf course.
Posted inFort Worth
Tarleton State expands in Fort Worth with new construction and first freshman class
Tarleton State Fort Worth hopes to continue to expand.
Posted inEl Paso
EPCC initiative engages young adult voters, offers election poll work experience
There are many reasons that young adults in El Paso County do not vote, but a program piloted by El Paso Community College will try to improve the situation through peer communication to include having students serve as paid nonpartisan poll workers at election sites. The college launched its Tejano Pollworker Fellows program this spring semester. Its […]
Posted inTexas
25 years after fatal bonfire, Texas A&M considers bringing student tradition back
A university system regent has sought input from the victims’ families about restoring the tradition, which was suspended after the 1999 tragedy.
Posted inOhio
‘I don’t have control at all of my future right now’: Notre Dame College students try to figure out what comes next as college closes
Students remained wary of promises as they packed a gymnasium on the South Euclid campus to meet college recruiters offering a possible education lifeline.
Posted inTexas
In the Panhandle, a conservative vision for higher education takes root at West Texas A&M
University president Walter Wendler’s plan to promote “Panhandle values” has conservatives cheering. But he’s not without critics.
Posted inTexas
These rural Texans opted out of a degree. The community college down the street wants them back.
VERNON — The sun was not out yet but, across the street from the town’s community college, order numbers were already piling in on the display monitor above Nikki Murray. The McDonald’s cashier slipped in one-liners with waiting customers while she wrapped their Egg McMuffin breakfast sandwiches. Her grin was contagious. She tried to ignore […]
Posted inPittsburgh
They’re calling it ‘bio valley,’ but Hazelwood residents want to know what it means for them
As the region’s major universities look to transform an aging mill site into a pioneering biotech and robotics center, local residents want to ensure their voices shape the conversation.
Posted inPittsburgh
What’s driving shifts in higher ed leadership? Social pressures, pandemic exhaustion and declining enrollment
Amid leadership changes at six of 11 local higher education institutions, academia looks to spread its benefits beyond the campus boundaries.