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October 13, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, today announced that President Charles L. Karr will retire in May 2026, concluding a transformative tenure defined by visionary leadership, deepened community engagement and the creation of a dynamic campus atmosphere. Karr first joined UAH as interim president in November 2021 and was named the university's president in September 2022. His retirement will mark the c...
No teachers and no curriculum: Is this the school of the future? Walking into Brightworks could be a shock for helicopter parents — there are no rows of desks, no hallway passes and no bells to jolt students from one class to the next, Reasons to be Cheerful reports. Instead, the K-12 school is alive with invention, autonomy and what founder Gever Tulley calls “the energy of a big multi-generational family household.” In a quiet pocket of San Francisco’s Presidio, just a short walk from the Gold...
Financing higher education: Scholarships, grants, and financial aid As college expenses increase, financial aid has become a lifeline for most students and families. According to Experian, for the 2024-2025 school year, tuition and fees ranged from $11,610 at in-state public colleges to $43,350 at private nonprofits. When you factor in housing, meals, and supplies, the total price tag drastically increases, with some students paying as much as $62,990 a year. Scholarship Institute breaks down...
The growth of online college enrollment in the US Spurred by the pandemic and a greater demand for flexibility, online higher education programs have begun to evolve from niche to mainstream in 2025. These fully online enrollment programs, now representing a sizable share of the U.S. education market, are reshaping who enrolls, the studies that are focused on, and how traditional college campuses operate. Through aggregated data across sources including Statista, the National Center for...
An aerial view of sunrise over Princeton University. FotosForTheFuture // Shutterstock Best value colleges in America Once upon a time, college was a core component of the American dream. Higher education was seen as the best pathway into high-earning fields, in turn enabling graduates to achieve milestones like homeownership and starting a family. But, in 2025, as tuition costs reach all-time highs and student debt balloons to levels that are nearly impossible to repay, opinions are changing. F...
================================================== ERROR IMPORTING STORY: Invalid source image file: ================================================== A dark stone historic church. Jon Bilous // Shutterstock Best value private colleges in America As of the second quarter of 2025, student loan debt in the U.S. hit $1.814 trillion. According to the Education Data Initiative, that averages out to about $42,673 per borrower. For many, that level of debt is debilitating, preventing them from achieving financial stability and even delaying major...
HUNTSVILLE, AL. (October 15, 2025) – The Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has received a $20,000 donation from the National Space Club – Huntsville, marking the second year in a row the group has made this donation to the ASGC. The funds help provide a long-term K-12 STEM engagement plan for the state that leverages the ASGC's connections to eight higher education institutions across Alabama, inc...
Smiling college students walking on campus. PeopleImages // Shutterstock Best value colleges in every state When it comes to higher education, definitions of what constitutes a valuable collegiate experience and reasons for enrolling are as varied as the people providing the answers. For some, it's tied to affordability and measured in terms of how many scholarships and grants are available to offset the overall cost. For others, value is measured by the quality of the education and is...
Most of the time people think of domestic abuse as man beating a woman with bruises and scars that show on the outside. People don’t see or are not even aware of the abuse of a narcissistic spouse that constantly deflates you as a person. The constant criticism, the lowering of confidence and self-worth of a person. No, it does not happen suddenly, it happens slowly over a period of time. You are not even aware of the boundary line being moved further and further away, week by week. They will t...
When Halloween is too scary: How parents can help kids cope Halloween is everywhere in October: from front yards lined with skulls, to haunted attractions, to jump scares and crowded events. For some kids, it’s not fun at all. The spooky sights and sounds can feel overwhelming, leading to refusals to go out or sudden meltdowns when they’re confronted with something that feels too frightening. If you’ve ever had a child cling to your leg at the sight of a fake zombie, you’re not alone. Fear at...
Red metal sculpture by artist Mark di Suvero and the iconic Stata Center by architect Frank Gehry on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. cdrin // Shutterstock 50 colleges with the best ROI They say the college years are the best of your life. They shape how you see the world, the passions you wish to pursue, and the person you hope to be. College is a significant financial investment, but much more than an emotional, personal, and professional starting point. In the last 19 years, the co...
A Saybrook College building at Yale University. Guillermo Olaizola // Shutterstock 30 best colleges on the East Coast Considering that the United States was born from a revolution waged along the Eastern Seaboard, it makes sense that the roots of the country's higher education system were also planted there. Harvard University—founded in 1636—came first, predating the Declaration of Independence by 140 years. In the following decades, more colleges opened along the East Coast, but they wer...
September 29, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Stories from Huntsville's iconic bluesman and a glimpse of the planning and training behind NASA missions will be featured during two special October events presented by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (OLLI at UAH). A festive evening of good food and live music is on the schedule, too. From his band, Microwave Dave & the Nukes, to his public radio show, "Takin' the Blues," to the Microwave Dave Music E...
September 29, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. - The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) welcomed a high-achieving freshman class this fall while continuing to draw students from across state lines - reflecting the university's growing reputation as a top destination for academically driven students across the region. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System. UAH enrolled 1,220 new freshmen for Fall 2025, part of an overall increase in first-time undergraduate students. This is the second...
Classics for babies: Board books introduce Shakespeare and Tolstoy to young readers Most people would not consider “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble” to be a nursery rhyme. But Utah children’s author Jennifer Adams does. Adams and illustrator Alison Oliver have used the witches’ opening couplet from “Macbeth” as the focus of the latest in their series of BabyLit books — board books that introduce classic literature to readers between zero and 3 years old. The Salt...
NAEP scores for class of 2024 show major declines, with fewer students college ready Students from the class of 2024 had historically low scores on a major national test administered just months before they graduated. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, released Sept. 2 show scores for 12th graders declined in math and reading for all but the highest performing students, as well as widening gaps between high and low performers in math. Chalkbeat reports that...
October 1, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Light the way to better health at SHINE 2025: the Symposium for Health Innovation and Neighborhood Engagement. Hosted by the College of Nursing at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), SHINE brings together community changemakers, health professionals and policymakers to spark innovation, strengthen partnerships and drive real change in access to health care for all. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System. "At UAH, we're committed to s...
Rob Hainer // Shutterstock Best public colleges in America Earning a college degree is an investment with far-reaching benefits. According to February 2025 data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, adults with bachelor's degrees earn a median of $20,000 more per year than those with a high school diploma. This increased income can mean a big difference in quality of life, from being able to afford a home to lower instances of poverty and even longer life expectancy. Those statistics may...
Best community colleges in 2025 Community college can be the pathway to creating more lifelong income, with associate’s degree holders earning 14% more — or $6,496 more per year — than those with a high school education. But while tuition and fees tend to be less expensive for community colleges than four-year degrees, it still costs a median $5,040 per year to complete two semesters of coursework, and in many cases can cost upwards of $10,000 per year. Given the time and monetary inves...
September 24, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Business and Science Applications International Corporation (NASDAQ: SAIC) celebrate another stage in their longstanding partnership with the announcement of a $50,000 donation from the company to launch the UAH Cloud Center of Excellence. The program will provide students with direct access to cloud-computing education and trainings in order to grow their professional development skills and expand t...
Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University during fall. Winston Tan // Shutterstock Best colleges in America The 2024-2025 school year saw a growing number of students at campuses nationwide. Undergraduate enrollment was up by 3.2% in the spring of 2025, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That increase is all the more noteworthy when you consider the current price tag for a college education—per the Education Data Initiative, the average cost of one year at a h...
Back to school, back to the bus. Why that yellow ride still defines childhood You didn’t need an alarm clock. You had the school bus. And its arrival was unmistakable — the low diesel growl echoing down the block, the squeal of brakes, the faint smell of exhaust mixing with morning dew. Step inside and you were hit with the same sensory cocktail every kid knows: cracked Naugahyde seats sticky in summer, rattling windows that never quite shut, and the odd mystery gum fused under the bench sin...
Texas passed a Bible-themed curriculum. But many districts aren’t using it This coming school year, the Fairfield, Texas, school district, about halfway between Dallas and Houston, will roll out a new K-5 reading program that includes multiple biblical references, The 74 reports. But the staff, hoping to avoid debates over families’ religious beliefs, has chopped roughly 30 sections out of the curriculum, including a kindergarten lesson on the Golden Rule featuring Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and...
Mastering the college application process The 2024-2025 admissions cycle flipped the script. Application surges, shifting test policies, and AI tools have reshaped how colleges choose students. For applicants in 2025-2026, it’s more competitive, but also full of opportunity. Scholarship Institute compiled a college application guide to help you work the system, not get worked by it. The rules, both official and unwritten, are changing fast, but staying on top of timelines and putting effort i...
September 8, 2025 - HUNTSVILLE, AL. – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have published a new paper that for the first time uses binary and solitary pulsars to constrain properties of a dark matter sub-halo in our own galaxy. Sub-halos are smaller clumps of dark matter that reside within a larger dark matter halo – regions of invisible matter surrounding galaxies and galaxy clu...