Career Tech Enrollment Increasing Among Workers with College Educations (Tulsa World) – Among people who have already earned a college degree, vocational enrollment has jumped more than 10 percent since 2008, when the prolonged recession began.
College Students Use 3d Printing to Improve Rocketry (3DPrint.com) – To create the parts with the needed modifications, Matthew Dusard and a team of fellow students turned to 3D printing as a means for a solution, finding out that the cost of the parts were not that expensive.
Grant Gives Global STEM Students Access to OSU Coursework (Springfield News-Sun) – Students at Springfield’s Global Impact STEM Academy will soon have college-level curriculum prepared by Ohio State University faculty integrated into their problem-based learning model, giving them a leg up when it comes to college readiness.
Jobless in Ohio Are Struggling Without Benefits (The Columbus Dispatch) – In December, Congress allowed federal unemployment benefits to expire, and some 1.3 million people saw their benefits vanish, with about 2 million seeing their benefits run out in the months since then.
Push to Keep Incoming College Students on Track (ABC News) – Recent studies by Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research found that an estimated 20 percent of graduating seniors from school districts in places such as greater Boston, suburban Atlanta, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, abandon their plans to attend college over the summer.
