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Efforts to quickly legalize student access fees for community college cyber-classes – fees that are banned by state law but which may be rampant across California campuses – have hit a snag in the state Capitol.SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle Read the Full Article
Online high schools have given athletes and performers a way to keep up with their studies without giving up what they love. Recently, other students have begun to give these schools a try. A new crop of university-backed, virtual high schools is changing this emerging field.SOURCE: US News Read the Full Article
Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Social Work is launching a new distance education M.S.W. program, available beginning with the fall 2011 semester. The deadline to apply is Aug. 10.SOURCE: Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRead the Press Release
Working professionals who want to advance their careers in finance can earn a master’s degree conveniently and apply new knowledge on the jobSOURCE: The Pennsylvania State UniversityRead the Press Release
The eArmyU civilian education option that has provided distance learning support services to 64,000 soldiers over the past decade will be shuttered next year.SOURCE: Army Times Read the Full Article
The Department of Justice and four states on Monday filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, charging that it was not eligible for the $11 billion in state and federal financial aid it had received from July 2003 through June 2011. SOURCE: The New York Times […]
University Park, Pa. — Penn State undergraduate students who want to expand their career opportunities now have a new online option. The homeland security minor is Penn State’s first online minor. It will enable students to acquire specialized knowledge and skills for jobs in the homeland security field, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects […]
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas signed an order today creating a new online university affiliated with Western Governors University, to be called WGU Texas. The move is the third state spinoff of Western Governors: Indiana created one last year, and Washington chartered one in April.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article
Advanced 3-D technology is allowing Ball State University educators to share history in a way that snags the attention of students who’ve come of age using the Internet and playing video games. SOURCE: Ball State University Read the Full Article
The purchase of Cloud.com has helped Citrix round out its offering of custom cloud solutions that will appeal to colleges and universities.SOURCE: Campus Technology Read the Full Article