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Walden University Receives Approval to Offer Online Bachelor of Science Degree Completion Program

MINNEAPOLIS, Sep 18, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Walden University today announced it has received approval from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to introduce online Bachelor of Science degree completion programs in business administration and information systems beginning in January, 2003. Read the Full Article

UCLA Children’s Digital Media Center Analyzes Children’s ‘Chat Rooms’; Director Warns Parents About Widespread Talk of Sex in Cyber Chat Rooms

“Sex is on the minds of many adolescents, and we are seeing this core developmental issue reflected in the chat rooms,” said Greenfield, director of a new National Science Foundation-funded Children’s Digital Media Center at UCLA. “With both sex and race, we may be seeing thoughts and feelings that, because they are considered socially unacceptable, […]

Generation Y wrestles with 9/11 in new Web video project

Funded by an outreach grant from the university’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Pinto da Silva interviewed and filmed 42 New York and Bay Area students, including four from UC Berkeley. Aged 16 to 24, the interviewees possess wildly diverse backgrounds, religions, and ethnicities. Read the Full Article

Rubric for Online Instruction

The committee was comprised of 13 faculty, 4 staff, 2 administrators, and 1 student. CEEOC met in May, 2002 to organize their work and for three full days during the summer to review materials and discuss criteria and categories for evaluating online course components. Read the Full Article

CAC updates distance learning

CAC has had a distance learning program for nine years, he said, and last year it received a U.S. Department of Agriculture technology grant to: n Move away from the analog microwave system, which is growing old and demands a lot of infrastructure. Read the Full Article

Leaving No Child Behind May Require Leaving No One Behind

On International Literacy Day, September 8, family literacy experts nationwide are asking how that goal can be accomplished while so many children’s parents cannot read well. Read the Full Article

Frugal students choosing community college

The bottom line, Buono said, was the bottom line. Read the Full Article

College Park hears details about future

As students chatted in the hallways, it was a much different atmosphere Monday night as the board of directors for College Park listened to reports from Nebraska University system representatives about the future of long-distance learning. Read the Full Article

Northark’s enrollment hits new high at 2,012

the largest number in the history of the college and the first time Northark has ever exceeded 2,000 students in a single semester. Read the Full Article

The New Digital Campus

Higher education decision makers are faced with a question that has serious organizational and monetary implications: Is it more effective to task campus IT staff with building homegrown portal applications, or is it more efficient to implement a third-party infrastructure to unite campuswide technology resources? Read the Full Article