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The Open University Business School (OUBS) Celebrates First South African MBA Graduates

Their studies were made possible by a partnership between the Open University Business School (OUBS) and the University of South Africa’s School of Business Leadership (UNISA SBL). The partnership, launched in 1997, brings together the largest business school in Europe and the largest business school in the Southern Hemisphere to offer an internationally accredited MBA, […]

National U. Creates a For-Profit Company to Run Growing Online Programs

The decision reflects the 31-year-old nonprofit university’s effort to build on its success in operating another for-profit entity, the College of Oceaneering, which the university purchased about a year ago. Read the Full Article

Alumni Build Community by Bringing Stories of NYC Teens to National Public Radio

But it wasn’t until she enrolled in Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and discovered radio that she stumbled onto what she believes is the perfect formula for teenagers to tell their stories. Read the Full Article

U.S.:Colleges Play Internet Traffic Cop

Although no one has threatened legal action yet, recent letters from the entertainment industry to college and university officials were blunt: “Copyright infringement is theft. ‘Theft’ is a harsh word, but that it is, pure and simple.” the letters said. Read the Full Article

CSU adds $254 million to economy, study finds

The answer surprised even President Michael Schwartz. Read the Full Article

Collegis signs five-year technology management agreement with Seattle University

(Maitland, Fla. and Seattle, Wash. — November 25, 2002) — With a pledge to extend its Jesuit mission for teaching and student learning, Seattle University has agreed to an investment in technology to help enhance and support the quality of its academic and administrative systems. The university has selected Collegis, the leading provider of comprehensive […]

Harrisburg Area Community College’s WebCT-powered distance-learning program propels school to record enrollments

LYNNFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25, 2002 – Harrisburg Area Community College’s WebCT-powered distance-learning program has helped generate record enrollments this fall, WebCT announced today. Total enrollment at the four-campus Pennsylvania community college is up 13 percent, but distance-learning enrollments are up almost three times as much, or 37 percent. The school also increased the average enrollment […]

100 Computers of U.S. Midshipmen Seized

School officials confiscated the computers when students were in class on Thursday, an academy spokesman said yesterday. Students found to have downloaded copyrighted material could face penalties ranging from loss of leave time to court-martial and expulsion. Read the Full Article

Distance education to help graduate students

Virginia Moxley, associate dean of the College of Human Ecology, and Sue Maes, senior development officer in the Regents Educational Communications Center, have helped to develop the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance, or GPIDEA. Read the Full Article

Ratonian on incoming governor’s higher-education review panel

Davidson, who heads the board of directors of the Northeastern New Mexico Educational Foundation in Raton, had spoken with Richardson during his campaign about the need to bolster higher-education opportunities in rural areas throughout the state, particularly in the northeast quadrant. Read the Full Article