Archive for November, 2009 - Page 2
Further Accreditation for DeVry Project Management Programs
DeVry University and its Keller Graduate School of Management recently announced additional accreditation for several of their degree programs from the Project Management Institute's Global Accreditation Center (GAC).
The Institute recognized DeVry's MBA with concentration in Project Management and their Master of Information Systems Management. In addition, the GAC conferred accreditation to DeVry University's project… | Read More
Kaplan University Announces Five New Degree Options
Kaplan University has announced the launch of five new specializations for programs in the teaching and business job sectors. The goal with the introduction of these options is to create relevant job training for a job market that remains tight for many people with traditional training.
The new online master's in management specialization in… | Read More
Veterans Object to 2nd Class Treatment for Online Students
Four young veterans teamed up on a well reasoned, civil and straightforward article in Washington blog The Huffington Post about a fundamental inequity built into the education support component of the New GI Bill.
This legislation became law in August of this year and among the important provisions in the law is financial support for… | Read More
University of Scranton Adds Online HR Degree
The human resources profession has undergone a dramatic expansion in the scope of duties over the past twenty years. Human resource directors who were at one time simply responsible for hiring and firing personnel are now in the business of employee development, training and recruitment. As a result the opportunities for recently graduated… | Read More
A Little Site Music
I'll have to admit to more than a little skepticism when I heard about online courses in music. It seemed to me like the radio station in California I listened to years ago that picked up the broadcast rights for a short-lived professional tennis league. You could hear the constant "poing" of the… | Read More
Florida Community College an Online Innovator
Gulf Coast Community College has seen a dramatic increase in online learning, which is has developed through the gradual development of online courses now numbering over one thousand. The school is now taking the next step, enrolling students for the upcoming spring semester for six fully online degree programs.
The impressive aspect of this… | Read More
Online Enrollment Setting the Pace at Penn State
Pennsylvania State University is among the acknowledged leaders for online education in the ranks of top tier traditional universities. The University's World Campus accounted for two thirds of the increase in undergraduate enrollment this academic year, according to University V.P. for Undergraduate Education Robert Pangborn.
"Pennsylvania resident enrollments have grown very modestly," Pangborn said,… | Read More
Gates Foundation Grants Target College Graduation Rates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced $4 million in grants to the National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education and Families, and seven cities to boost college graduation rates by better coordinating the services that colleges, schools and communities provide to students. Reuters reports that, "Enrollment at the nation's 1,200 community colleges… | Read More
University of Nebraska Celebrates 100 Years of Distance Learning
In 1909 during the era of "correspondence schooling," the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL) launched its first distance learning effort with some residents in the western reaches of the state. It would have taken a student from that area days to reach the campus on horseback. One hundred years later, students in… | Read More
Tennessee Public Universities in Online Campus Collaboration
We are starting to see state university programs embrace online education technology and in the process, create some interesting academic options for their students. In Tennessee, total enrollment in distance education courses is growing an average of 30% each semester at the Tennessee Board of Regents' six universities, 13 community colleges and 27 technology… | Read More
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