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(Geoff Fattah, ksl.com) -- SALT LAKE CITY — State higher education officials have announced a new campaign to encourage children in under-represented populations to consider going to college. The Step Up campaign seeks to overcome barriers to higher education that some youths may face. The campaign also urges parents, educators, mentors and community leaders to encourage...
READ · Sep 26
(Robert R. Johnson and Sidney Green for Salt Lake Tribune) -- The University of Utah is Utah’s largest higher education institution. It is a strong economic driver for our state, and was recently recognized nationally as having the most spin-off businesses of any university, exceeding even Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was also recently recognized as having highly efficient medical...
READ · Sep 26
(Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News) -- Madeline Cook can't really put her finger on it, but the thought of eating broccoli makes her nose scrunch up in distaste. "I don't really like broccoli because … I really don't know," said the 8-year-old Providence Elementary School. Any parent at a dinner table is familiar with the age-long negotiation with their children to...
READ · Sep 26
(Marjorie Cortez, Deseret News) -- A mother's educational attainment can hold the key to ending the cycle of generational welfare, a new study reveals. "The most important correlation between generational or intergenerational poverty is the mother's educational attainment," Kristen Cox, executive director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services, told a legislative committee Wednesday. The department, along...
READ · Sep 23
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