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Coursera Embraces Netflix Model

This new subscription model for online learning could be a game-changer in online education. By financially incentivizing course completion, Coursera will likely boost the number of learners enrolling and completing programs in their courses and could be one step closer to realizing the original vision of MOOCS, once seen as poised to revolutionize the higher […]

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Columbia College Trains Staff to Aid Veterans

As an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Landon Miller, a 22-year-old Columbia College student veteran, said walking into a counseling center or seeking help of any kind can be a challenge for veterans. Military members often don’t want to show signs of what could be perceived as weakness, he said. To combat that stigma […]

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Veterans Reflect on Returning to School

MEDIA, Pa. — Jake Fida, an information sciences and technology major at Penn State Brandywine, does not fit the typical student mold. At the age of 18, Fida joined the United States Marine Corps, serving for four years in Djibouti, Kuwait and on a carrier before being honorably discharged from active duty in October 2015. […]

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What Do Recruiters Think of Online Degrees?

Online degrees and courses are becoming more common, with top-ranked schools now offering students the chance to hit the books, electronically, from anywhere. For busy professionals traveling the globe, studying online can be a convenient way to obtain the education level typically now required for a career in international development. And this is even more […]

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Ozark Aviation School Training Students To Work Globally

OZARK – The Alabama Aviation Center will give Connor White a chance to travel the world while making a living. White is attending the AAC to become an aircraft mechanic and with the training he receives there he will likely be able to find a job just about anywhere on the globe. “Overseas jobs with […]

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College Ranks One of Best for Veterans

Military Times has announced its Best for Vets: Colleges 2017 rankings. The eighth annual rankings factor in the results of Military Times’ comprehensive school-by-school survey of veteran and military student offerings and rates of academic achievement. Northwest Nazarene University was ranked #4 in the U.S. for private universities and #19 for four-year public/private universities and […]

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“Navigator” Helps Other Veterans in College

MOSES LAKE, Wash. —When George Turner left the Air Force, he found himself missing “meaningful work.” As the new Vet Corps navigator at Big Bend Community College, where Turner is studying computer science, he finds himself again doing something important — helping former members of the military make their way into and through college. “It’s […]

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10 Colleges Where Tuition Is Free

You might think there’s no escaping the high—and still rising—cost of college. But at some schools, the cost of tuition rings up as zilch, zero, nada. These ten colleges across the country offer free tuition. At many of the schools, students work a set number of hours in a student work program or, in the […]

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Survey: What Issues in Higher Education Are Most Pressing?

The Chronicle of Higher Education surveyed more than 250 college and university stakeholders to find out their takes on the most pressing issues facing higher education today and into the future. Several respondents indicated the rise of diversity in higher education access as a major factor, with affordability, government influence and technological development as similarly […]

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Hiram College to Offer Three-Year Degree

HIRAM, Ohio – Hiram College students will be able to graduate in three years and save money under a new program that includes summer courses. The 3-year option will be offered, beginning in fall 2017, in 19 academic programs at the private liberal arts college in Portage County. “We are responding to the public’s call […]

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Military Academies Aren’t What They Used to Be

When Zainab Salami’s parents sent her from a public school in Texas to the Randolph-Macon Academy, a 124-year-old military school in western Virginia, her only frame of reference was a Disney Channel movie. “I thought it would be like Cadet Kelly,” she said. In the 2002 film, the main character, a free-spirited artist type played […]

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“Veteran-Friendly” College Honored

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — For the second straight year, Baker College has been recognized for its commitment to veterans, service members and their dependents. The education institution was recently honored with a gold ranking for the second year in a row by the Michigan Veteran Affairs Agency’s Veteran-Friendly School Program. In its second year, the program […]

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