Aid sought for Ohio students seeking 2-year degrees By  Encarnacion Pyle The Columbus Dispatch Monday November 25, 2013 5:56 AM The leaders of Ohio’s public community colleges say they’re tired of their students being treated like second-class citizens. And they want lawmakers to set aside $20 million so their students can again draw money from [...]

From the Community College Times, Washington, DC. In Ohio, grant changes leave out many students in need By Tabitha Whissemore, Published November 21, 2013 ​Community college students in Ohio are paying the price for the decline in state need-based aid. The Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG) provides financial assistance to low-income students at state colleges [...]

an editorial FEATURED EDITORIAL Granting opportunity State lawmakers have wrapped up six public hearings on higher education reform around Ohio, including at Penta Career Center in Perrysburg Township. Topics of the hearings, attended by hundreds of people, included credit transfers, adult education, faculty workloads, dual-enrollment programs, state funding, financial aid, and student debt. However, the [...]

From the Akron Beacon Journal -- an editorial   Ohio doesn’t have enough college graduates, lagging behind the national average, ranking in the high 30s among the states. That shortfall helps to explain the trend of the past three decades, the state’s average income declining sharply relative to other states. The hope long has been [...]