Career Education Month Reminds Students: "Invest in Your Future"

“Kits 4 Kids” Project a “Smashing Success”

Gov. Nixon Joins "Kits 4 Kids" Collection Drive

State Has Protected Local Schools from Financial Crisis, Nicastro Says

Malden Campus Opening at 5 p.m. Feb. 9

Perryville Higher Education Center Closed Tuesday, Feb. 9

Southeast Music Group to Jazz Up Valentine's Day

Sultans of Swing Perform Feb. 11 at Buckner Brewing Co.

Southeast Faculty to Perform Concert for Duo Lutes, Guitars

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Carousel’ Coming to River Campus

Free Southeast Master Dance Class Available to High School Students at Academy of Dance-Arts

Dyson Speaking Event Rescheduled for March 3 at Southeast

Prestigious Production Company Returns to Audition Southeast Performance Students

• Souter to speak at Harvard's commencement
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Harvard University says retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter will be the principal speaker at its spring commencement ceremony.
• Rutgers sorority women plead not guilty to hazing
  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Six members of a suspended Rutgers University sorority have pleaded not guilty to charges of hazing.
• US troops killed in Afghanistan and Africa
  Marine Cpl. Jamie R. Lowe
• Governor plans emergency address on Nevada budget
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada's budget is so far out of balance that by one account the state could lay off every worker paid from the general fund and still be $300 million in the red. The economic downturn has hit so hard that prisons may be closed, entire colleges shuttered and thousands left without jobs.
• US colleges court Hispanic families using espanol
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- For some Hispanic students, navigating the college application process can be a double-whammy: Balancing high school coursework with essays and interviews, and then translating the whole system for their parents, who don't speak English.
• Haitians at US colleges worry: stay in school?
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Every payday, Jeff Paul sent whatever dollars he could spare to his mother and little brother back home in Haiti. They've become even more desperate since the Jan. 12 earthquake, compounded by thieves, destroyed his mother's business; they had to sleep in the streets of Port-au-Prince before a relative took them in.
• NJ teacher admits guilt in cash-for-grades scheme
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A former social studies teacher in New Jersey has admitted pocketing "charitable donations" from students looking to improve their grades.
• Cow tips man and steps on him at UT campus
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- People probably can't tip cows, but a cow tipped a person in Knoxville. Then it stepped on him. An ambulance was called to the University of Tennessee agriculture campus Friday morning. Fire Department Capt. D.J. Corcoran told The Knoxville News Sentinel first responders found a 40 to 50-year-old man who said he was working with cattle in a pen when one knocked him down and stepped on his chest.
• Army curtails plan to cut spending for world bases
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Army is curtailing plans to cut what it spends on running its bases worldwide after concerns from soldiers and Congress that services for military families might suffer.
• Teen shot at Ala. middle school dies; student held
  MADISON, Ala. (AP) -- A ninth-grader was shot to death by another student during a class change Friday at a north Alabama middle school, authorities said.