Online Education
Fine Arts Teaching Degrees from Boston University Online
Boston University is one of the traditional academic institutions in this country that has embraced online education. Their new Master’s in Art Education is an example of what a school with deep resources can do with the online experience when they try. Students who are artists or have a love of the arts [...]
Capella University Announces New Online Degrees
Capella University announced today that it has added two new online degree programs and three new specializations. The University is introducing an RN to BSN degree program, one of the most popular healthcare educational choices today. Because of the increased complexity of today’s health care environment, the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education [...]
Texas School Receives Grant to Support Hispanic Graduate Students Online
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the School of Education at the University of St. Thomas in Houston a $2.8 million Title V Education Grant to fund the Promoting Post Baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program. The purpose of the education grant is to implement programs to achieve parity among Hispanic graduate students and [...]
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 veterans [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 step [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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