Archive for October, 2009
Online Instruction from an Iraqi Combat Zone
North Dakota State University provides higher education in a state where agriculture and farming are still the economic anchors. Their catalogue of business degrees reflects the state’s economic orientation, so when an associate professor of agribusiness and applied economics was called to duty by the National Guard, she took her rostrum with her.
Cheryl J. [...]
Ashford Special Ed Dept. Rolls out New Toddler Specialization
Ashford University has expanded its online degree program in the special education field to include a specialization component focused on infants and toddlers. As early education has become a “childcare plus” concept in many facilities, professionals in the special education field need to learn about the needs, caring and educational opportunities associated with very [...]
Ashford University Announces Tuition Agreement for Police Professionals
Ashford University is an online education provider based in Clinton, Iowa where the school also has a campus facility, first opened in 1918. Today the school announced a national alliance agreement with the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA). Most police offers in cities of any size belong to a police association that [...]
University of Phoenix Opens Immersive Nurse Teaching Center
Across the street from its flagship campus, University of Phoenix is opening an “immersive learning center for nursing students. The facility is meant to provide quasi-clinical training through the use of wireless high-fidelity 3G “patient” mannequins that cry, talk, sweat, cough and breathe; and a high-fidelity baby that reacts to stimuli in the [...]
SUNY in a Dialogue on Credit Transfers
The State University of New York system operates sixty four campuses with both two year and four year campuses. Despite the fact that they are under one umbrella, the issue of transferring credits from a two year school into a baccalaureate program has been an ongoing problem.
Inside Higher Education is reporting that the committee studying [...]
Ashworth College Named as Military Friendly School
Every year GI Jobs published a list of “military friendly” schools that are being acknowledged due to their special efforts on behalf of returning veterans. This year Ashworth College was added to the list, which was announced on October 23rd.
The list was compiled through research starting last May during which G.I. Jobs polled more [...]
School Helps Grads Earn a Quick BS in Nursing
A pledge of $200,000 in scholarship funds will help Marymount University in Arlington, VA address a critical, and growing, shortage of nursing professionals, according to a story in the Sun Gazette.
Twenty scholarships of $10,000 each will be provided to students enrolled in Marymount’s accelerated (four-semester) bachelor of science in nursing program, which is designed for [...]
Research Says Most College Students will Take Classes Online by 2014
Research firm Ambient Insight has conducted an in-depth analysis of the online education market and come up with some predictions based on current trends. According to an article in Campus Technology some 1.25 million students in higher education programs take all of their classes online, while another 10.65 million take some of their [...]
Associates Degree in Healthcare Fields Lead to Jobs
The Montana State University-College of Technology is graduating students in medical training programs that are finding their services are in high demand. All of them are students who opted for an associate’s degree because it’s a program that can be completed quickly and allow the graduate to go to work.
According to the Great Falls [...]
Chicago College Cooks up New Culinary Degrees
The Chicago Tribune reports that Kendall College, a relative newcomer to the Chicago academic scene, has developed two new degrees that mesh the culinary arts with today’s most popular education and job sectors. The number one academic choice in the U.S. today is the business degree. For employment, the most opportunities today are [...]
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