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Higher Education
Oklahoma’s Promise has come a long way in helping low-income students achieve a college degree since the tuition scholarship program’s inception almost three decades ago.
More than 85,000 high school graduates have received the scholarship during that time, according to the Oklahoma’s Promise 2017-18 Year End Report…
A plan by the state of Oklahoma to cut back on higher education spending has Carl Albert State College in Poteau trying to figure out what to do next.
In November 2017, then Gov. Mary Fallin directed the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to develop a plan that would possibly consolidate universities and colleges…
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Students from campuses across the state rallied for increased funding for their colleges and universities Tuesday during 2019 Higher Education Day at the Capitol.
A group from Northwestern Oklahoma State University was among those who spent the morning urging lawmakers to restore money for faculty and programs. Higher education’s state funding . . .
Oklahoma’s colleges and universities, state Rep. Jon Echols said, will see an increase in their funding, including more money to pay tuition for students who attend both high school and college at the same time…
The state’s colleges are economic engines for small town Oklahoma, a new study shows.
The State Chamber Research Foundation has released a study showing the economic effect on local economies sparked by the annual state appropriations to Oklahoma’s 29 universities and colleges…
Maintaining a robust system of higher education is vital to Oklahoma’s economic prosperity. Insufficient funding hampers Oklahoma’s ability to increase college degree earners and cultivate the productive workforce that is needed to keep Oklahoma economically competitive.
Over the past decade, Oklahoma’s 25 colleges and universities have experienced . . .
Oklahoma’s public regional universities are outperforming the national average of upward social mobility by 38 percent, according to two national studies.
Researcher Raj Chetty tracked 30 million students from freshman year to about age 32 to discover how colleges improved the economic fortunes of students from families at the lowest income . . .