One of the higher education world’s boldest experiments began in September when 180 students from nearly 50 countries around the world logged on to their computers for their first day of school at the University of the People. At first glance, the school has many of the trappings of a modern university: a provost, department heads, even an admissions committee.
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Online Learning: Tuition-Free University Gains a Following – Alison Damast, Business Week
So what if that dude in the cubicle next to yours decides to get a masters degree, then grabs the promotion you wanted — but the degree turns out to be fake? A number of high-profile cases over the years demonstrate that some people in middle and senior corporate, government and non-profit management are not above using a bogus credential to get ahead.
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Bogus online degrees may be more widespread than you think – Beau Brendler, Wallet Pop
In these difficult economic times, you might be looking around for a good way to make a little bit of extra spending money. And really, there are a lot of ways in which you might set about accomplishing this. Of course, one of the best ways that you can make yourself a few extra dollars is by attending a few self storage auctions. Sure, this may seem a little bit complicated at first, but once you begin to get your feet wet, you are going to realize that there is not much that goes into making a few extra dollars at your local self storage auctions. Simply follow the advice that you find here, and you are going to be well along your way before you even know it.
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This article is from US News and World Report . “Online college education is expanding—rapidly. More than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online course at the start of the 2008-2009 school year.
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Study: Online Education Continues Its Meteoric Growth
Learning a new language is always helpful, even if you don’t need that skill in the immediate future. While English is the de facto standard when it comes to communicating with people around the world, the importance of other widely spoken languages like French, Spanish etc cannot be undermined. Gone are the days when learning a new language was a big hassle
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Top 20 Foreign Language Learning Tools & Resources
If they had it to do over again, some councilmen said they would not have voted to allow vinyl windows in the city’s historic districts. “I’m the first to admit I made a mistake,” said Councilman Jeff Watt, who voted to overrule the Historic District Review Commission after the commission denied requests for vinyl windows.
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Some officials rethink vinyl vote
The PharmaTrust dispensing machine is set to be deployed in Canadian hospitals in the province of Ontario, according to an Ontario Hospital Association press release : The OHA and PharmaTrust will collaborate on the installation of telepharmacy prescription-dispensing kiosks in hospitals across the province. PharmaTrust MedCentre kiosks offer live video pharmacist counseling and quick and safe 24/7 access to prescription and over-the-counter medications, dispensed under the complete control of a pharmacist
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Ontario Hospitals will Dispense Drugs via PharmaTrust Kiosks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Melissa McGowan 530-898-6105 2010 Local Government Leadership Development Program Prepares Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges The Northern California Local Government Leadership Institute is accepting enrollments for the 2010 Leadership Development Program, a newly-updated, five-course series designed to help local government employees cultivate leadership skills and become more effective and proactive leaders and managers. The Leadership Development Program, now in its sixth year, has served more than 250 local government leaders throughout California
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2010 Local Government Leadership Development Program Prepares Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
I was talking with one of my coworkers today who is in web design about what characteristics, education and experience are important in the field of web design. Fortunately, she was full of great information. In fact, she gave me so much great information in an easy-to-read bullet list, I decided not to change a thing, well, almost nothing
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What It Takes To Be A Successful Web Designer
Business degrees are popular for undergraduate students going in to college. On degree in business school that is also popular is marketing. With a marketing bachelors degree you will learn concepts that are designed to create a customer base, and how to keep the customer and to satisfy the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that marketing management is one of the major components of business management
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Top 10 Undergrad Marketing Schools
College campuses have long noticed a larger female student body than the guys. Not only have the ladies outnumbered the guys, the have also out performed them. A current study released this week shows that the gap between male and female students has stopped getting bigger. They are also evening out in enrollment in bachelor’s degree programs .
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Females still Outnumber Male Students
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Tanya Komas Concrete Industry Management program 530-898-4487 Concrete Industry Management Students Help Create 9/11 Firefighters Memorial Students from California State University, Chico’s Concrete Industry Management (CIM) program will help build a memorial next week to honor firefighters who lost their lives in the 9/11 disaster in New York City. Seventeen CSU, Chico students attending the annual World of Concrete trade show and conference in Las Vegas will help erect two eight-foot towers inscribed with the names of 56 fallen firefighters on a special reflective concrete exterior. The captain of the firehouse at 48th and 8th Streets in New York will be traveling to Las Vegas to witness the building of the memorial at the World of Concrete event.
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Concrete Industry Management Students Help Create 9/11 Firefighters Memorial
If you work full time and long to expand your education, a distance learning college may present the solution for you. As those who work full time cannot typically afford to leave work for several months at a time in order to follow a …
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Many people cannot sacrifice their lives for the chance to earn a graduate degree; however, the number of accredited online universities has allowed them to consider this time cost and time efficient alternative. ( EMAILWIRE.COM , January 28, 2010 ) Fort Lauderdale, FL Anyone that has been forced into the capitalist machine knows that in order to become a viable part of the economy and stand out from the crowd, one must receive a graduate degree from an accredited university. However, the weight of that task can cause many students to fail before they start.
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Is the Internet a Legitimate Source for Graduate Education?
An advocate for open courseware, Gates shares his favorite sources for online lectures—as well as other education musings—on a new web site. Bill Gates’ new web site reveals his thoughts on open courseware, school reform, and more. It’s no surprise, really, but it turns out Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates is a strong supporter of the open-courseware movement that has swept through higher education in the last few years.
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What Bill Gates is learning online – eSchool News
Governor Tim Pawlenty at a Jan. 15 news conference said “You’re going to have the equivalent of iTunes in higher education, where instead of buying a song for 99 cents, you’re going to be able to click on Econ 101 for probably $199 or $399,” the governor predicted
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A paradigm shift is ahead for higher education – Lori Sturdevant, Star-Tribune
Three More Colleges Join Major Distance Learning Transparency Initiative College Choices for Adults, a website dedicated to providing adult learners with unique information to accelerate and better inform their college selection process, announces publication of data for three additional providers. Ashford University, Nazarene Bible College, and University of the Rockies join the 13 Transparency by Design charter institutions, which already publish information about their program-level learning outcomes, outcome metrics and how students perform against these measures.
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Three More Colleges Join Major Distance Learning Transparency Initiative
After thirty-four minutes of speaking on everything from a new jobs bill, proposed banking fees, a spending freeze (to take effect after one year), and financial reform, President Obama finally discussed the sensitive issue of health reform in his State of the Union address. However, on his first few statements on the issue, he referred to it as “health insurance reform” instead of “health care reform”.
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Obama On Health Reform: "Let’s Get It Done"
In 2003-2005, Dick van Vlooten, a Dutch management consultant, wrote a series for Science’s Next Wave (the predecessor to Science Careers), where he drew lessons for job-hunters about networking from social science research. One of van Vlooten’s columns discussed the…
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Earning your bachelors degree in business might not seem like the best idea during and economic downturn, but some schools have students getting jobs upon graduation. Business week is ranking those schools by whether or not students were able to get jobs upon graduation. Some schools fared better than others. 1.
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Top 20 Undergrad Business Schools