Tag: Online Higher Education: Page 11

Students

Conveying the Black College Experience into Distance Learning

With HBCUsOnline.com, radio personality Tom Joyner ventures into ‘expanding the voice’ of HBCUs by targeting growing contingent of nontraditional students.

November 3, 2010

Leadership & Policy

For-profits Under Increased Scrutiny — This Time From Military

U.S. Defense Department proposes new rules regulating quality of online programs accessed by members of the armed services.

November 2, 2010

Students

With Record Gift to Saint Leo University, Latino Businessman Gives New Meaning to Online Donation

Online alumnus’ $4 million donation calls attention to the need for colleges and universities to tailor giving messages for online graduates who have a different experience and sense of engagement than traditional students.

October 17, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Indiana Launches Western Governors University Program

Partnership between Western Governors University and Indiana likely to improve college-degree attainment among the state’s minority students.

August 8, 2010

Students

College “Student Group” Aided by For-profit Industry

Career College Association, a lobbying group for for-profit schools, provided the organizational muscle to launch the grassroots-sounding Students for Academic Choice at a time when for-profit colleges are under fire.

June 13, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Scholars Discuss How U.S. Higher Education Can Avoid Decline

Higher education is widely viewed as an American success story during the twentieth century, but now it’s facing a series of challenges that threaten that preeminence, said one expert at an American Enterprise Institute forum on reinventing the American university last week.

June 6, 2010

African-American

HBCUs Explore Ways To Move Beyond Tuition Dependence

Historically Black college and university leaders are seeking the means to move their institutions from a model of tuition-dependency to opening alternative revenue streams that will ensure their institutions’ financial future.

April 14, 2010

African-American

HBCU Leaders Consider Partnerships Key to Remaining Competitive in Online Era

Creating partnerships to link students across campuses and offering online academic programs to students were two of the solutions presidents of some of the country’s historically Black colleges and universities say will help keep their institution competitive as more options for higher education emerge.

March 21, 2010

Students

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Removing Boundaries and Increasing Student Engagement through Virtual World Platforms

IS THE BURGEONING USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION TO BE FEARED, GUARDED, OR embraced?

November 11, 2009

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STUDY INVESTIGATES IF ONLINE EDUCATION IS KEY TO HELPING MORE LOW-INCOME STUDENTS OBTAIN DEGREES

Peter Schenk believed a college degree was the key to a more financially stable life. To that end, the 22-year-old worked two jobs to support his family and pay college tuition for himself and his wife.

October 14, 2009

HBCUs

LETTERS – October 15, 2009 Issue

Readers share opinions on recent Diverse stories.

October 14, 2009

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Streamlined State Regulation Key to Distance Education Success, Advocates Say

Distance education coalition meets to develop strategy on advocating state regulation reform of online study programs.

October 13, 2009