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• Obama urges expanding access to higher education
• Online Simulations Help Educators Help Troubled LGBTQ Students
• You, Too, Can Smash Atoms!
• Obamas host summit to help low-income students go to college
• Obama urges action on expanding college access
• Evaluating Predicted, Actual Graduation Rates at Regional Colleges
• Obama convenes college leaders on expanding access

Obama urges expanding access to higher education Posted: 16 Jan 2014 01:33 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tested his persuasive powers Thursday, summoning university presidents to the White House to win their commitments to expanding access to higher education and to demonstrate a new determination to use his own presidential authority in the face of legislative roadblocks.

Online Simulations Help Educators Help Troubled LGBTQ Students Posted: 16 Jan 2014 12:29 PM PST It doesn't take a superhero to come to the aid of a young person in crisis mode. That's the goal of the Trevor Project, which dedicates itself to crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning) youths. Adam Lambert, Darren Criss, Blake Jenner, and Chris Colfer were among the celebrities performing at this annual event. In 2013, the Trevor Project, Campus Pride, and Kognito Interactive teamed up to launch three interactive, online training simulations that help educators and students gain the skills and knowledge needed to help at-risk young people.

You, Too, Can Smash Atoms! Posted: 16 Jan 2014 12:14 PM PST While most high-school students are stuck building science fair experiments with a funnel, some popsicle sticks or a few parts from Radio Shack, a few lucky ones will have the opportunity to take their science to a whole new level. CERN, the Geneva, Switzerland-based physics organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider that recently found the Higgs Boson, is opening up a particle beamline for students with the best research proposal. The beams accelerate protons and other particles to incredibly high speeds, and the focused beams are then fed to experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider, which smashes beams together to create tiny subatomic particles. The Proton Synchrotron beam line will be open to a total of nine teams of up to 30 students over age 16, along with one adult coach.

Obamas host summit to help low-income students go to college Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:57 AM PST President Obama brought together more than 80 higher education leaders Thursday for a White House summit on expanding college success for low-income students.

Obama urges action on expanding college access Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:34 AM PST His education agenda mired in Congress, President Barack Obama is urging university presidents to copy each other's best examples to expand access to higher education, highlighting his efforts to use presidential ...

Evaluating Predicted, Actual Graduation Rates at Regional Colleges Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST For the 2014 Best Colleges rankings, U.S. News calculated a predicted graduation rate for Regional Colleges and Regional Universities for the first time in the rankings' 30-year history.

Obama convenes college leaders on expanding access Posted: 16 Jan 2014 04:48 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is bringing university presidents from across the country together to exact commitments from each to expand access to higher education.

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