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[10 Sep 2014 | No Comment | ]
How The Cost Of College Went From Affordable To Sky-High

Jeffery Corbett’s daughter is attending community college. Corbett, a fundraiser for a nonprofit, says a high school diploma just won’t get you very far. And he knows; he doesn’t have a college degree.

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[9 Sep 2014 | No Comment | ]
Federal Loans Tough To Come By For Community College Students

There’s a reason why one-fifth of the nation’s community colleges don’t offer federal student loans. Find out why.

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[2 Sep 2014 | No Comment | ]
Siblings, now at Separate Schools, Support Each Other After Playing Together at Potomac

Both Amber and Trey Porter attended Potomac Senior High School where they played basketball. Both siblings assisted their teams on a successful first round appearance to the Virginia State Basketball Championship held at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia; with Trey and the Panthers most recently winning a State Championship title in March 2014.

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[15 Aug 2014 | No Comment | ]
Tuition & Fees at Virginia Colleges Go Up

Virginia undergraduates at public four-year colleges and universities in the Commonwealth will experience an average increase of…

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[21 Jun 2014 | No Comment | ]
GMU Students Become Archaeology Interns at George Washington’s Home

George Washington’s Mount Vernon welcomes Kellie White and Emily Daniel from George Mason University as part of its 2014 class of Historic Preservation Field School student interns. In collaboration with the University of Maryland Field School in Historic Preservation, the field school students will participate in a project to investigate the archaeological, architectural, and interpretive histories of the Washington families’ kitchen.

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[11 Jun 2014 | No Comment | ]
Thoughts: Women Getting Pushed Out of Journalism

Every single editor of The New Republic has been male. Almost every single newspaper chain is headed by a man, save Gannett. A recent New Yorker issue was written entirely by men.

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[5 Jun 2014 | No Comment | ]
Summer Fellowship Program Seeks Applicants

Summer fellows will have the chance to develop all the skills needed to be top-notch organizers — learning to run phone banks, conduct press conferences, and rally support around the issues important to their communities.

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[5 Jun 2014 | No Comment | ]
Questions of Academic Freedom Hit UVA Again

The group joined forces with two U.Va. students who have sent Laycock an “open letter” about the consequences of his work, and have also filed a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking any emails between Laycock and religious-liberty groups.

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[4 Jun 2014 | No Comment | ]
Justices Reject Reporter’s Bid to Protect Source

A reporter who has been ordered to divulge the identity of the source of classified information lost his bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to clarify whether journalists have a right to protect their confidential sources.

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[26 May 2014 | No Comment | ]
Memorial Day: From Mark Herring & Ralph Northam

Today is about remembering and honoring those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country.