Education
Nazareth receives $2.2 million grant
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The funds will support the university’s Revitalizing Educational Equity program to assist underprivileged, low-income and first-generation college students.
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The funds will support the university’s Revitalizing Educational Equity program to assist underprivileged, low-income and first-generation college students.
If the blue ribbon panel’s recommendations are adopted, graduation requirements in New York are likely to become more inclusive and learning-centered.
Rochester native Azhyia Clemons is one of 27 Sallie Mae scholarship recipients nationwide.
A team at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is working to improve emergency resources and services for the deaf and hard of hearing community.
Sara Gazarek, a two-time Grammy-nominated vocalist recently appointed associate professor of jazz voice, is designing the new program.
Local universities are boosting efforts to guide families through the financial aid process, so that students do not fall into unwieldy debt.
Programs at Finger Lakes Performing Provider Systems and Monroe Community College are recipients of American Rescue Plan funds that aim to address the nursing shortage.
The charter school, focused on career readiness for health services, added 100 additional spots in a new building.
Rochester Institute of Technology is the first university to get these funds. It aims to help the community develop a long-term cybersecurity defense.
Monroe Community College has struggled with declining enrollment for a decade. The fall semester offers cause for optimism with a 3 percent increase in the number of credit-seeking students.