WHEELING — Corpus Christi School recently endowed a $56,000 scholarship fund to help families with tuition costs and is planning an open house from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8. The school now has seven scholarships to offer students in addition to the Diocesan Financial Aid Program ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Penny Shane, school counselor at the Belmont Career Center, has been recognized by the Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools with the 2018 Outstanding Teacher Award. CORAS, in partnership with the Ohio University College of Education, is an organization composed of ...
By JESSICA BROVERMAN Staff Writer WHEELING — Colleges and universities throughout the region offers a wide variety of degree programs and career training, but they also help educate non-student community members with a number of outreach activities. For example, West Virginia Northern ...
CONNORVILLE — Some realistic learning tools are helping students at Buckeye Local High School expand their educational opportunities. Funding from a $25,000 Charles M. and Thelma M. Pugliese Charitable Foundation grant added zSpace 3-D learning software late last year which is outfitted with glasses to heighten studies. The $4,000 system is found in a makerspace on the second floor of the school and also includes special apps to hone the students’ knowledge of science, math and even history. Principal Coy Sudvary, who obtained the grant last spring, said it will further modernize ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — High school seniors are invited to attend a spring visitation event called Admitted Day at Ohio University Eastern Campus at 3 p.m. March 22 that will end with a $500 scholarship drawing. Register online at ohio.edu/eastern or call 740-699-2536. “Whether students have decided that our Ohio University Eastern campus is right for them, or if they are still considering their college choice, we have great information and chances to win a scholarship at our event,” explains Lisa Jeffries, recruitment coordinator. During Admitted Day, students will take a closer ...
(BPT) — With student debt increasingly becoming a long-term burden on graduates and families, says Peter Gayle, a vice president for Prudential Advisors, it’s never been more important to minimize the out-of-pocket expenses to put a student through college - and reduce reliance on student loans. To put the weight of student debt in perspective, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York noted that in 1995, 54 percent of graduates had loans averaging $11,491. It’s more recent data in 2015 showed 71 percent of graduates joined the workforce with student debt averaging slightly more than ...
