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The Ameritech/SBC Faculty Development Technology Program and the Flashlight Program of The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group announce the formation of an alliance to support the continued enhancement of teaching and learning at ninety-four independent colleges and universities in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Over the past five years, the Ameritech/SBC Program has been working […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – November 14, 2001 – Academic Systems, the higher education division of Lightspan, Inc. and a leading provider of interactive multimedia instructional programs for college students, today announced widespread product enhancements designed to serve the developmental and general education learning needs of more than six million college students nationwide. The product expansion, […]
Following the lead of Dartmouth and Yale, Harvard will offer online admissions notification to Class of 2006 hopefuls.
The announcement last September seemed innocuous enough: Oxford, Princeton, Stanford and Yale Universities were each pitching in $3 million to offer a few online courses for alumni, with vague promises of a broader scope in the future.
Central Wyoming College had to shut down its computer system to rid it of several viruses.
Nellie Mae, a top originator of student loans, has unveiled a fresh, new face for its interactive Web site, http://www.nelliemae.com . This redesigned resource for college-financing information features enhanced content, simpler navigation paths and new menu bars to better serve students and schools.
What is the future of distance education? “That’s a good question, and we’re working on it,” said Don Dahlin, University of South Dakota vice president of academic affairs.
Princeton University has pulled out of the Alliance for Lifelong Learning, a partnership with Yale and Stanford Universities and the University of Oxford to deliver distance-learning courses. Officials from Yale and the alliance said Princeton’s absence would be regrettable but would not seriously affect the alliance’s operations.
New college enrollment records will be set every year during the first decade of the 21st century, according to the U.S. Department of Education (D.O.E.) Projections of Education Statistics to 2011. An increase of prospects combined with an expanding choice of traditional and nontraditional degrees creates complex marketing challenges for universities. Turnkey Marketing, an Atlanta-based […]
ayim Herring wanted to go back to school but his daily life schedule was squeezed. Herring, 43, who also is a rabbi, is the father of two college-bound children, a husband and the assistant executive director of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, where he works 50 to 60 hours a week.