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Governor McAuliffe announced a new grant program today that will provide Virginia students with a clearer path to a higher education. The Affordable Pathways grants (up to $140,000 each) will be awarded to as many as four public two- and four-year institutions of higher education.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) has been notified that Medtech College has voluntarily ceased offering postsecondary education. The U.S. Department of Education has noted its official closure date as August 10, 2016.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that applications are now being accepted for a $1 million state scholarship fund for students studying cybersecurity. The Virginia Cybersecurity Public Service Scholarship Program will award $20,000 a year to eligible Virginia students who are studying how to safeguard computer networks, data and electronic resources.

Most in-state undergraduates attending Virginia’s public colleges and universities will see their tuitions and mandatory fees increase this year an average of $369, or 3.6 percent, the lowest such rate in 15 years.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia re-elected G. Gilmer Minor III as chair and W. Heywood Fralin as vice chair at its regular meeting July 19.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia will discuss and vote on regulations for the nation’s first pay-for-performance grants for noncredit workforce training at its July 19 meeting.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia will hold a one-day statewide summit this week on college access, success, and completion. The focus of the summit will be "Our Students, Our Future."

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia today affirmed the renaming of George Mason University’s law school to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia will hold meetings of its Executive, Resources and Planning, and Academic Affairs committees beginning at noon on Monday, May 16 at Washington & Lee University in Lexington.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) approved this week the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience, effective fall 2016. To be housed in the Virginia Tech College of Science and headed by neuroscientist Harald Sontheimer, the school was approved in November 2015 by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.