Tag: Continuing Education: Page 5

Health

Bringing Graduate Education to the Workplace

Paying for books and little else, company employees benefit from Webster University’s Corporate Cohort program.

July 18, 2007

Faculty & Staff

BI What’s New: Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives

Southeast Missouri State University has a new bachelor of science degree program in environmental science. The program was approved by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education and was established in response to the growing demand for environmental science professionals.

July 14, 2007

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UDC under investigation – University of the District of Columbia

Yet with enrollment up and finances stable, campus officials look optimistically toward the future

July 13, 2007

Students

New standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New York

The man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.

July 12, 2007

Health

Bringing Graduate Education to the Workplace

Paying for books and little else, company employees benefit from Webster University’s Corporate Cohort program.

July 11, 2007

Students

Transfer and dropout statistics don’t tell the whole story

Anyone who looks at transfer rates from community colleges would be well advised to be prepared for dismal reading.

July 11, 2007

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From combat to campus: GI Bill gave a generation of African Americans an opportunity to pursue the American dream – Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 Years – Cover Story

The early champions of the GI Bill probably never envisioned the far-reaching impact the landmark legislation would have on American society.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Technology: a considerable investment expected to pay big dividends – use of the World Wide Web as an educational resource

Like most American institutions of higher learning, Voorhees College is boldly embracing the future. The small liberal arts, historically Black institution in Denmark, S.C., has adopted information technology to overcome the isolation that its rural, out-of-the-way location has imposed on the Episcopal Church-affiliated school.

July 10, 2007

HBCUs

The promise and the peril – African American colleges and universities’ hotel and conference center ownership

Filling the Black Hotel & Conference Center Ownership Void: Tuskegee Has High Hopes; Clarke Atlanta Moves Slowly; Howard Throws in the Towel!

July 4, 2007

Students

Centers of attention: roles of collegiate conference centers come into focus – includes list of members of Assn. of Conference and Events Directors International for Collegiate Conference and Events Professionals – Cover Story

Twenty years ago, a college might have rented out dormitory space to church groups in the summer to keep the buildings in use and to make a little money on the side. Today, renting out space to host conferences and meetings has become a big business for colleges and universities.

July 4, 2007

Community Colleges

Graduate and Continuing Education for Community College Leaders: What It Means Today. – book reviews

edited by James C. Palmer and Stephen G. Katsinas Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, 1996 I had looked forward with considerable anticipation to the publication of Palmer’s and Katsinas’s Graduate and Continuing Education for Community College Leaders: What It Means Today.

July 4, 2007

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Governor signs pioneering tax credit law to stop ‘brain drain’

AUGUSTA Maine With applause filling his office, Gov. John Baldacci signed on Monday what’s described as the nation’s most far-reaching law to keep the state’s best and brightest from fleeing after graduation by offering tax credits to reimburse their college loans.

July 1, 2007