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P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education (PCE) — Established in 1973 to provide need-based grants to women in the U.S. and Canada whose education has been interrupted and who find it necessary to return to school to support themselves and/or their families. Has given $70 million in grants.
the Education Commission logo. The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (also known as the Education Commission) was set up in 2015 to reinvigorate the case for investing in education and to chart a pathway for increasing investment, especially in low- and middle-income countries. [1]
The Perpetual Education Fund provides loans to members of the LDS Church seeking additional education, mainly through vocational school and technical training. In connection with the more recent PEF-B program, (and for those already part of the International Education Fund program) opportunities for university education are also available. [3]
The Higher Education Relief Opportunities For Students (HEROES) Act (Pub. L. 108–76 (text)) was legislation passed unanimously by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 16, 2002. It was extended and amended in 2003, extended in 2005, and made permanent in 2007.
CornerStone Education Loan Services was managed by the Utah Higher Education Assistance and was previously one of eight approved federal student loan servicing agencies. Due to financial loss ...
The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) is a self-financing, not-for-profit state-charted student loan authority created by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1982. [1] The authority was created to provide fixed rate student loans and operate the Massachusetts 529 plan U.Fund, launched in 1999, and its prepaid tuition plan U ...
According to the Institute of International Education, the majority of U.S. college students studying abroad, about 72 percent, participate on programs sponsored by their home institution. However, at least 28 percent of the approximately 260,000 Americans who studied abroad in academic year 2008/09 study through an outside program.
The institute was established in 1919 at the cessation of World War I. Nobel Peace Prize winners Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, Elihu Root, former secretary of state, and Stephen Duggan, Sr., professor of political science at the College of the City of New York (and IIE's first president) formed the Institute of International Education with the idea that educational ...