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Collegis selected as Banner implementation partner at Community College of Philadelphia

Collegis, the leading provider of comprehensive technology services to higher education, is based in suburban Orlando, Fla. Community College of Philadelphia is the largest degree-granting institution in the city, enrolling more than 40,000 students annually at its main campus, three regional centers, and more than 60 locations throughout Philadelphia. The three-year, multi-million dollar agreement focuses […]

Bogus diplomas

Higher education officials nationwide, alarmed by the expanding potential for fraud involving bogus college degrees and fake transcripts, are stepping up efforts to crack down on academic scams. Read the Full Article

UCLA and SBC Pacific Bell Launch New Multimedia Literacy Web Site

The initiative is the outcome of a $1 million gift from SBC Pacific Bell to UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. The donation is intended to allow students and educators to explore the meaning of literacy in an age of rapidly changing technologies and growing diversity. “This new site incorporates a variety of […]

USM professor receives apology

In the letter, Joseph Wood apologizes to John Broida for statements he made about a videotaped lecture by Broida that a student complained about. Read the Full Article

Agencies struggling to put ‘diploma mills’ out of business

Several state education agencies are trying to shut down diploma mills, with mixed success. Universities in Washington, D.C., have joined forces to stop one company from including their names on a Web site. Concern about cases of falsified transcripts, meanwhile, will top the agenda of a meeting next week of the Association of American Medical […]

Michigan Community Colleges: Colleges Coalesce Around eLearning Platform

WIDS, or Worldwide Instructional Design System, is a set of software and training tools developed by the Wisconsin Technical College System. It is an approach to teaching, assessment, and outcomes measurement that is now in place in 300 schools and school systems in the United States and abroad. Read the Full Article

Chinese Institutions Look Toward Distance Education

As many as 800,000 students will gain access to higher education through distance-education programs that have been authorized by China’s Ministry of Education, says Qiong Wang, an associate professor of education at Peking University, in Beijing. Read the Full Article

University Of Akron And Kent State University Create Collaborative WebCT-Based Online Learning Initiative

LYNNFIELD, MA — (INTERNET WIRE) — 10/02/2002 — Two of Ohio’s largest universities are teaming to create a collaborative online learning system that will dramatically expand their teaching and research opportunities while reducing information technology (IT) costs, WebCT announced today. The University of Akron and Kent State University are using WebCT’s academic enterprise system, WebCT […]

SCT® and Microsoft® Look to Provide Market-Leading Higher Education Solutions on .NET Technology

MALVERN, Pa., October 1, 2002 – SCT (Nasdaq: SCTC), the leading provider of e-education solutions for colleges and universities, announces plans for a global relationship with Microsoft to provide administrative, academic, personal, and community applications utilizing Microsoft .NET technology. These applications are expected to help higher education institutions increase collaboration and lower operating costs by […]

Universities and Solution Providers Showcase the Use of Sun Technology at This Years Educause Conference

“At Sun, we are firmly committed to educational technology. By focusing on network based solutions, we help our customers to reduce costs, provide technologies that enable their communities and make doing business with them easier for their customers,” said Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research for Sun. “We are very excited to […]