With the Thanksgiving break coming up, it’s a perfect time to start exploring scholarship opportunities and refining your essay answers to give yourself the best shot at dollars for college. This month, we’re announcing an exciting $20,000 opportunity for students in every state, plus the renewable Dream Award direct from…
In our past few issues, we’ve been highlighting specific career areas, namely business management, data analytics, and cybersecurity. This week, we’re going to zoom out and return to a more widely applicable topic, AI skills. At first glance, AI skills may seem highly technical. The name alone can bring to…
Organizations and companies awarded for innovation and addressing community needs through scholarship programs Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, November 12, Scholarship America will proudly present the inaugural Irving Innovation Awards as part of its annual gala, hosted at the Army & Navy Club in Washington, D.C. This special evening will…
As college students around the country approach the midpoint of their fall semester, they have plenty on their mind: settling into campus life, studying for midterms, thinking about plans for the rest of the year. But for thousands attending college in the Southeast, the destruction from Hurricane Helene and Hurricane…
With fall in the air and midterms on students’ minds, it’s also time for some of the biggest scholarships of the season to start taking applications. The Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship is awarding 400 high school seniors with up to $40,000 plus internship opportunities; the SMART Scholarship provides full tuition…
Last week, we shared career development tips from Tony Francis, a Senior Program Manager and data analytics expert at Google. There, Francis shared insights he gleaned from his own professional journey, which saw him go from a finance and accounting major with no data analytics experience to becoming a data…
The first week of an online course is critical. It establishes the tone, sets expectations, and can determine a learner’s commitment to completing the course. At Coursera, we have been analyzing data to understand which elements are most impactful during that first week, and how best to design Gateway Professional…
Did you know that 84% of teachers report that students lose skills or knowledge over the summer? This loss, often referred to as “summer learning loss,” forces teachers to spend nearly 22% of the school year re-teaching previously covered material. For Grade 9 students, two-thirds of the achievement gap can…
If you’ve been here for a while, you’re likely well aware that data analysis is a high-income skill and is associated with a lucrative career path. When used thoughtfully, data can reveal actionable insights that drive performance and offer a competitive edge. But perhaps the most amazing thing about data…
By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Today, Google is launching a new GenAI course, Prompting Essentials, to help anyone, even those without prior experience, design better prompts and use AI more effectively. The demand to learn GenAI from industry leaders remains strong. The Google AI Essentials course, launched…