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Kaplan Higher Education Expands Office Space to Accommodate Growing Online Business and Staff

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug 15, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Reflecting the company’s plans for continued growth in its online higher education businesses, including a doubling of staff in Boca Raton over the next two years, Kaplan Higher Education, a unit of Kaplan, Inc. and a subsidiary of the Washington Post Co., has just signed […]

Fall class for teachers at San Diego State University

The College of Extended Studies at San Diego State is offering an on-line course for educators this fall semester entitled “Health Education for Teachers.” This course is the health education course required for professional multiple and single subject clear credential teaching applicants. The course will cover all topics designated in the Health Framework for California […]

UON Move to Expand Its Student Capacity

Prof James Kimani, the Managing Director of the University of Nairobi Enterprises and Services (Unes), says the new hostels will mainly accommodate students from outside Nairobi. Read The Full Article

Wired Students Prefer Campus News on Paper

That is why, as university and college newspaper editors prepare for the returning flood of students in coming weeks, most will be focused more on putting out the best paper-and-ink reports they can muster than on meeting the special demands of adapting campus journalism to the Web.

Sustainability: Cornell University’s Distance-Learning Course Makes Global Connections

Undergraduate and graduate students from the Americas, Europe, Australia and India are linked electronically in a spring semester class that examines international food issues and formulates positions on worldwide agricultural sustainability. Read The Full Article

SIUC OFFICE AGAIN OFFERING ONLINE AND VIDEO CLASSES

The SIUC Office of Distance Education will again offer online, print-based and two-way interactive video courses for fall semester 2002. Courses are offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Read The Full Article

Jim And Diane Ryan Announce Retirement Plans

Jim Ryan, vice president for outreach and cooperative extension, and Diane Ryan, executive director of the Penn State Alumni Association, have announced that they both plan to retire from the University in the summer of 2003. “These leadership positions, in both the Alumni Association and outreach and cooperative extension, are the most exciting in the […]

Northwest Approves eCollege as Enterprise-Wide eLearning Provider

Northwest Takes Advantage of eCollege’s Free On-Campus Offer DENVER – August 12, 2002 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], the leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, today announced it won the approval of Northwest Missouri State University’s Presidential Cabinet as the University’s sole eLearning provider for its distance and on-campus eLearning courses. […]

World’s Only Online Law School Proving Its Mettle

Less than four years after opening its virtual doors, Concord has become the second largest part-time law school in the country, based on the size of the first-year entering class, and is proving to be a viable model in creating access to a legal education for students worldwide via the Internet Read The Full Article

Mega-university celebrates 10 years of trouble-free financials

UNISA moved off its locally-developed general ledger system in June 1992 to become the first SA organisation to go live with the Oracle solution. Read The Full Article