Archive for September, 2009 - Page 2
Wisconsin IT Students With Disabilities Honored at Award Night
Finding a viable path to college and a career can be hard enough on its own, but dealing with disabilities can make the process all the more discouraging. Luckily, there are organizations devoted to helping disabled students find the resources they need to make career success a reality, and AbilITy Connection is one of those… | Read More
Loyola University New Orleans offers Online Degrees in Religion
Loyola of New Orleans is a small (4,500 students) Jesuit school with an impressive range of undergraduate and graduate programs. It has operated in New Orleans for one hundred years, but also maintains a number of extensions in this country and overseas.
This week they have announced two graduate programs for master's degrees: one… | Read More
NY College Offers Certificate in Online Videos
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is one of the sixty four campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The school offers an impressive set of visual communications degrees, stressing the importance of multimedia in all forms of marketing today. Their most recent addition to the multimedia options in their… | Read More
New NBC Comedy "Community" Addresses Fake Online Degrees
Last night NBC premiered "Community," a new comedy for their Thursday prime time line-up. Interestingly enough, the premise of the show revolved around a topic very near and not-so-dear to our hearts: fake online degrees.
The show stars Joel McHale (of E!'s The Soup fame) as Jeff Winger, a lawyer trying to earn back his… | Read More
Major Student Loan Overhaul in Washington
On September 17th the House of Representatives passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, a bill that provides billions of dollars in federal spending on education and that makes a major change in the structure for student loans in this country. The omnibus bill is described in the New York Times as a… | Read More
Harvard Announces New Educational Doctorate Experiment
The Boston Globe's online publication Boston.com is carrying a story on Harvard University's innovative new doctoral degree in education. It is an Ed.L.D. (as opposed to a PhD): a program that is meant to provide the skills for actual management careers in education administration rather than the knowledge and abilities to teach and conduct… | Read More
Morgan State University Fights Online Ph.D. at Rival School
There is a predicament afoot in the state of Maryland at the moment. University of Maryland, University College (UMUC), has a new degree program in the works, and neighboring Morgan State University is none too pleased about the matter. Now, according to the Baltimore Sun, the problem is being taken to the courts and raising… | Read More
Saint Paul College Prepares For the Future With Web 2.0 Degrees
Warren Sheaffer is Saint Paul College's Computer Science Department chair, and he has some big ideas -- not least of which is the importance of Web 2.0, a piece of technology that has been dominating modern web use. According to Finance and Commerce, Sheaffer is preparing students well for the future of computing, with several… | Read More
Maryland Online Doctoral Program Sparks University Fight
The budget squeeze on public institutions of higher education has led to several developments in online education. The prospect of generating revenue has caused many public schools to crank up impressive online programs, notably Penn State and the University of Massachusetts.
Others are trying to get programs underway and are finding that often the… | Read More
A Revamped Criminal Justice Program to Include Public Safety
Mercer University in Georgia has announced the introduction of a bachelor's program in public safety that has taken the curriculum from their criminal justice degree and modified it to meet today's needs.
Program coordinator Lynn Tankersley said that the new major is the result both of requests from professionals in the public safety profession and… | Read More
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