Florida Community College an Online Innovator

Posted by Get Degrees Staff
November 10, 2009

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 [...]

Report Shows Two Thirds of New Jobs Come From New Companies

Posted by Get Degrees Staff
November 9, 2009

The Kaufmann Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on entrepreneurship, issued a report prior to the latest unemployment figures showing that two thirds of the jobs created in the U.S. in 2007 came from new companies. While the manufacturing sector continues to shrink and financial institutions continue to consolidate, the entrepreneurs are feeding a [...]

Gates Foundation Grants Target College Graduation Rates

Posted by Get Degrees Staff
November 6, 2009

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 [...]

Penn State Wins Award for Online GIS Degree

Posted by Get Degrees Staff
October 24, 2009

Penn State has poured a lot of effort into their online effort; as a result their World Campus is probably among the top five online education programs among the country’s top traditional universities. Recently online education foundation The Sloan Consortium recognized the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Master of Geographic Information Systems program [...]

New Approach to Snaring Cyber Hackers

Posted by Get Degrees Staff
September 4, 2009

Computer security software giant Symantec has announced a redesign of some of their computer security products that takes a proactive approach to snaring hackers. The company is the world’s largest manufacturer of anti-virus software and has been at the center of the computer security issue for many years.
Securing personal computers and corporate files has [...]

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