HURON TOWNSHIP BGSU Firelands will offer its associate of arts degree totally online starting in the fall semester.

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BGSU Firelands to offer arts degree online

UTICA, June 17, 2010 — In an effort to stimulate the regions economy by connecting employers with job seekers, four area colleges have combined efforts to create a consortium agreement, the Central New York Recruiting Consortium (CNYRC), which is designed to connect these two groups.

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MVCC joins area colleges to link employers with potential workers

Public universities in Virginia and Maryland are drawing unprecedented numbers of students from community colleges, building a transfer pipeline that is changing the traditional path to a four-year degree. Community college – Education – United States – Colleges and Universities – Two-Year Colleges

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Community-college transfer students in Va., Md., easing into university level

There has been a huge boom in for-profit education in the past decade. Tuition is usually far more expensive than what public colleges charge and even some top-notch private universities are cheaper.

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For-Profit Colleges Can Be Costly For Students

Online public charter school students moving on to colleges, universities SIMI VALLEY, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Over the past week, the California Virtual Academies (CAVA), a network of public online charter schools serving students across the state, has graduated 230 students who have completed the high school requirements and received their diplomas.

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California Virtual Academies Graduates 230 High School Students

Drexel University Online launches new Bachelors Degree Completion Program in Information Systems allowing professionals to advance their career on their time

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New Online Degree Completion Program Opens Doors for IS Professionals

In 2000, Ohio had one online school enrolling about 2,000 students. Today, more than 20,000 students attend online schools. Online learning is an education option that more and more students are using, said Scott Blake, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education.

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Online schools growing in popularity

two of our daughters relaxing with me in Greece Here’s some of what I found interesting today: A paper on psychopaths delayed by legal foo More than 3 years after initially passing peer review and being accepted, a controversial paper addressing how to diagnose psychopathy and whether past criminal behavior is central to the condition has been published in the June issue of Psychological Assessment . How blind are you? This failure to notice what should be very apparent is something we unconsciously experience every day as our brains filter the barrage of visual information which we are flooded with.

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my readings for June 13th, 2010

Online degree programs and distance learning have truly come of age.  Once considered higher education’s stepchild, today a growing number of traditional bricks and mortar colleges and universities are developing online courses and online colleges are getting high marks for offering quality, accessible and affordable degree programs.

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What Your Online Degree Shows Potential Employers

a view coming down from Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro Here is what I am reading now that finals week is over! laser pointers and your eyes Barbara McLaughlan, campaigns manager at the Royal National Institute of Blind People, said: “Laser pointers are deceptive. They look safe but they can be very dangerous, particularly ones available on the internet which may possess a very strong beam. model of how the brain recognizes objects The model was designed to reflect neurological evidence that in the primate brain, object identification — deciding what an object is — and object location — deciding where it is — are handled separately.

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what I am reading June 10th 2010

As an online college student, you may have to work a little harder to promote school spirit and follow campus sports, if there are any. But these 10 celebrities have managed to stick with their college sports teams even after they’ve found success joining the Hollywood scene

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Celebrity Superfans: 10 Alumni Who Are Famously Loyal to Their School

For the K-12 set, summer vacation means pool and beach time, family vacations, sleeping late, the absence of routine and maybe a laid-back summer job at a camp or the grocery store. But for college students, summers can quickly turn into study abroad opportunities, internships, and research apprenticeships on campus.

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The Summer of Goals: How to Spend Your Vacation Wisely

In a digital age, information of all kinds on all subjects is readily available with a few clicks of a mouse or keys typed. While there are many advantages to this, it also means that information about individuals is easily accessible to just about anyone who wants to get it– including potential employers. You will do yourself a big favor by working to manage your online reputation before it ever becomes an issue with finding a job and maybe even help the web to work with you instead of against you in your career

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Learning to Manage Your Online Reputation Is Key to Job Hunting Success

the 3rd annual San Luis Obispo Greek Festival! It is a busy week, but here is something fun to read: Cholesterol levels might be controlled by brain circuitry “When your stomach growls and you have the urge to reach for the nearest snack, it is, in a way, your tummy talking. Those signals are in part sparked by the gut-based hunger hormone ghrelin, which blocks certain receptors in the brain, telling your body when it is time to eat.” iPhone 4 “Steve Jobs’s keynote address at yesterday’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is now available in its entirety on Apple’s website.”

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reading for finals week June 8th 2010

College is a great way to improve your life but it’s not for everyone. With hard work and determination you can be successful even without a college degree .

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100 Famously Successful People Who Skipped College

“San Luis Obispo Greekfest June 2010″ Here are some of the readings I found interesting for today: Simple Urine test for Autism “The researchers behind the study, from Imperial College London and the University of South Australia, suggest that their findings could ultimately lead to a simple urine test to determine whether or not a young child has autism.” a sense of humor keeps you healthy “Intelligence Test Svebak said that it has been fifteen years since researchers first attempted to evaluate the effect of sense of humor on life expectancy.

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readings for June 6th 2010

Waiting for the Greek Festival to begin in San Luis Obispo! Here are a few intriguing stories that I found to be worthwhile reading: Judge says brain scans not acceptable for detecting lies “In the first decision of its kind, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that functional magnetic resonance imaging shouldn’t be permitted in the courtroom as a new type of lie detector. U.S

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my readings for June 5th 2010

Advanced Placement (AP) classes are designed to better prepare high school students for post-secondary education by allowing them to pursue college level classes at their schools. After completing the class, students can register and pay to take the AP exam.

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All About Advanced Placement (AP) Classes and Exams

Wonderful view of Baseball in Boston Here’s some of what I found interesting reading today: questioning coffee affects “Tests on 379 individuals who abstained from caffeine for 16 hours before being given either caffeine or a placebo and then tested for a range of responses showed little variance in levels of alertness.” Understanding Potassium Channels “Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have made a significant advance in understanding how potassium channels, which permit the flow of electric currents central to many of the body’s biological processes, control the flow of these currents.”

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reading list for June 4th 2010

“Here I am at the 'HOME” of the Boston Cream Pie!” Here are some of the things I am reading for today: X-TREME eating 2010 “With close to 30 percent of young Americans too heavy to join the military, you’d think that restaurants would at least stop introducing new heavyweight items.” What happens when we become angry? “Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine system. In addition, changes in cerebral activity also occur, especially in the frontal and temporal lobes…” Comparing income with peers causes unhappiness Researchers analysing data from a Europe-wide survey found three-quarters of those asked thought it important to compare their incomes with others

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readings for June 2nd 2010