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Almost everyone from Minnesota has heard about the St. Paul Winter Festival and the Minneapolis Aquatennial, but sandwiched in-between the two biggies are thousands of smaller festivals held in communities all across the state. There are festivals to celebrate the potato, the carp, turtle racing, and more!
The number of students taking classes through the Web-based Kentucky Virtual University more than doubled this fall to 5,034, the Council on Postsecondary Education said Monday.
BBC education correspondent Mike Baker considers whether today’s students will come to see their university education as a good investment.
The enormous popularity among students of multimedia sharing programs has noticeably slowed the Internet in residence halls this year. Programs such as Kazaa, AudioGalaxy and Gnutella have had such an impact on the speed of Internet usage that Indiana University Information Technology Services has been forced to implement several changes including a temporary “dynamic rate […]
Princeton, NJ — Western Governors University (WGU), an online, competency-based university, has selected The Chauncey Group International® to develop additional assessment tests for WGU’s general education requirements in the area of quantitative literacy and in the area of language and communication. Under the partnership, The Chauncey Group®, a subsidiary of Educational Testing Service® (ETS®) will […]
State University of New York enrollment grew for the fifth consecutive year to 382,684 students, up 2.2 percent since last fall, according to preliminary data released today by Chancellor Robert L. King. Full-time undergraduate enrollment is the highest in the university’s history – 235,618 – up 4.4 percent from last fall. New full-time graduate/professional student […]
S. Altaf Hussain, the vice chancellor of Allama Iqbal Open University here, began his academic career in 1971, teaching chemistry at the University of Balochistan, in western Pakistan. In the early 1980s, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, but he returned to Pakistan to resume his teaching career and […]
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Quisic, a leading provider of corporate e-learning solutions, today launched The Online Bridge Program™, an adaptation of the school’s renowned Tuck Business Bridge Program®. The campus-based version of Online Bridge has successfully served as a business boot camp for top liberal arts graduates joining such blue-chip corporations […]
Vertical Alliance, Inc. recently announced an industry-leading academic initiative designed to provide graduate-level students at major U.S. colleges and universities access to real world e-business technologies that will better prepare them for the transition from classroom to boardroom. The Vertical Alliance Academic Initiatives kicks off this semester at five of the world’s leading universities — […]
Oksana Jonas, an elementary education freshman at the University of Arizona, normally waits 10 minutes or more for access to a computer in the Science and Engineering Library, but on Monday, she managed to get one after waiting for only five.