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A new report by the Associated General Contractors of America, the Progressive Policy Institute, and Procore highlights the need for increased federal funding for workforce training programs. The report emphasizes that without action, more Americans will be unqualified for jobs and employers will struggle to find skilled workers. Currently, federal spending on post-secondary education and degree programs far outweighs spending on workforce training and development. The report recommends increasing funds for federal workforce development programs, prioritizing employer-centered partnerships, and highlighting successful training programs in various states. However, achieving legislative action this year may be challenging due to the election-year calendar and partisan differences in Congress. [Extracted from the article]

Excerpt: What It's Like To Go To College On An eSports Scholarship: Balancing practice and matches with academics, combating toxicity, and explaining esports to parents and professors. For colleges that have League of Legends, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and StarCraft II teams, scholarship money comes directly from the developers Riot Games provides scholarship money directly to colleges that have competitive League of Legends teams. With Berkeley in the fall of 2018 to provide scholarships to its Division 1 League of Legends team, which. [Extracted from the article]

In her first YA novel, Firkins, a playwright, screenwriter, and comics artist, offers a modernized, prudently pared- down retelling of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Meanwhile, Edie is sidetracked by attention from two potential love interests: childhood friend and next-door neighbor Sebastian, who unfortunately already has a beautiful girlfriend, and handsome Henry, who has a reputation for being a player. Part steamy romance, part comedy of manners, the story effectively mirrors Austen's writing style with its sharp-witted dialogue and gentle pokes at society. [Extracted from the article]

MacDonald's offbeat debut introduces 21-year-old Zelda, a Viking-obsessed young woman with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, who lives with her gruff, tattooed older brother and guardian, Gert. While he attends college on a hardship scholarship, Zelda enjoys spending time with Gert's feisty ex-girlfriend AK-47 and at the community center with her friends. Money is tight, and when Zelda discovers that Gert has resorted to some possibly illegal money-making methods, she decides to help, because helping the tribe is what a Viking warrior does. [Extracted from the article]

The article report on the Association of Old Crows continues to support its community, and the Patriots' Roost Chapter, located in Burlington, presented a scholarship to one of the graduates of the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF). It mentions that the TSgt Yaseni Benjamin was awarded a scholarship to help defray costs to continue her studies at the university level.

This article discusses Latin American history professor Richard E. Greenleaf's financial endowment to the Latin American Library at Tulane University in New Orleans. The fellowship will allow yearly visits from scholars in Latin America. It will also restore or replace materials damaged by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.

The article reports on the 1 million dollars endowment fund given by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Borlaug International Scholars Fund in Texas. The fund will help the Texas A&M University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences on training future agricultural leaders. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Agricultural Development initiative program officer Don Doering states that the fund will allow students with commitment on finding solutions for global hunger to continue their education.