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The Commerce Department on Feb. 11 approved the expansion of the “.edu” domain name to allow usage by schools with postsecondary distance-education programs, as well as specialty and training programs such as the Connecticut Institute of Hair Design and the American Film Institute.Read the Full Article
Roger J. Benavides and Frank Elder Jr. will serve terms that run through Feb. 1, 2007. Read the Full Article
Eligibility for .edu Internet addresses will be expanded to include more postsecondary institutions than are currently eligible, EDUCAUSE and the U.S. Department of Commerce announced today. EDUCAUSE, the association for information technology in higher education that manages the .edu Internet domain, anticipates that the change will become effective around mid-April 2003. Current .edu domain name […]
Since becoming president and CEO of Apex Learning Inc. last September, Cheryl Vedoe has been studying hard. Now she’s ready with some answers for the test she faces: how to make the Bellevue-based online education company turn a profit. Read the Full Article
Denounced by conservatives in Congress when it was launched in 1997, the eRate weathered several early storms to become a vital source of funding for schools’ technology infrastructure. Read the Full Article
Concerned about the growing problem of identity theft, Joseph Simitian, a Democratic assemblyman from Palo Alto, introduced a bill (AB 46) on December 2. It would also prohibit employers from requiring employees to use their Social Security numbers except for tax purposes. Read the Full Article
Nonetheless, the President’s budget would, if enacted, seriously compromise our ability to deliver the services we are required by law to provide to the American people. Read the Full Article
Bush’s 2004 budget called for an overall increase of $2.4 billion at ED, but schools and colleges still await current-year funding as Congress continues to wrangle over the 2003 budget.Read the Full Article
Ken Meyer, a legislative liaison with the U.S. Department of Education, briefly explained the law to members of House committees dealing with education, then heard their complaints for more than an hour. Read the Full Article
In a case that surprised university officials, a total of 12 students were accused of using the text messaging functions on their cell phones to receive messages from people outside the College Park, Md., campus exam hall during a December accounting exam. Those aiding the students accessed answer keys posted on the internet by a […]