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What’s a Jobless Recovery?
If you have been watching the headlines parade by in recent weeks you’d think the American economy has once again surfaced, sputtering for air. It’s been record days on Wall Street, a $1 billion quarter from Ford, as well as banks (B of A) and insurance companies (AIG) who took billions in federal subsidies [...]
Tags: career opportunities, criminal justice degrees, economy, health care careers, health care degrees, job market, recession
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 [...]
University of Texas Announces New Bachelor’s Degree Completion Programs
The University of Texas (UT) says that millions of Texans have started college, but never completed a bachelor’s degree. The census statistics appear to back UT’s analysis up: in 2000 29% of the population had some college credits but no degree, or had made it to the associate’s level but not beyond. Commuting [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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University of Peking Takes Chinese Language Courses Online
In an interview recently Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a startling prediction: among the usual visionary list of faster broadband, faster computers and near-universal access he foresees came the comment that in five years, the predominant language used online will be Chinese. You can find many pieces of the picture that would lead to [...]
Grantham University Announces Four New Options in Criminal Justice
Grantham University announced today that it has added four new Criminal Justice Certificates of Learning to its curriculum. Grantham is a 100% online education institution that specializes in educating working adults; it was established in 1951. It is heavily involved in the education programs sponsored by the four military branches and has been considered [...]
Michigan State to Close Academic Departments
Michigan State University (MSU) has completed cutting the fat from its budget and is now cutting into the bone. In the wake of vastly reduced state funding, a grim fact that virtually all public universities are facing, MSU has announced tentative plans to axe not only degree programs but entire departments. The protests [...]
Five Texas Schools – One Campus
In the Dallas area sixty minute commutes are common on a good day. One of the educational options for the monster commutes in major Texas cities is the pursuit of online degrees, but many students who prefer classrooms can be frustrated by distance issues or by cost. For those who are planning to [...]
Supply Chain Management – the Hot Ticket for Business Majors
The logistics of business operations has become a field where things go a lot faster with a lot more precision than they did ten years ago. Inventory management is an area where manufacturing concerns put major emphasis on the savings that can be realized with empty warehouse shelves. Raw materials and parts that [...]
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