| Where would you be without them - online colleges | | Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:21:55 PM by Kate Grant | Like so many things today, colleges and universities have launched websites, to help students and future students look for information related to their studies. Essays and text books, for example, and how purchase them online, or help in finding grants, scholarships, accommodation and more. 
Directories helping you to find the best college online will guide you, the student, or your parents. You don't even have to leave your house. Nowadays you can do anything online: get an education, enroll in an online college, study online in courses designed especially for that, (Without attending classes!) get a college degree, and so much more.
It's a good thing you have to leave the house from time to time, otherwise you'd spend days in front of the computer. But you can find even more exiting information online, information of a different kind all together.
Wipe that smile of you face... We are talking about projects focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information, an array of resources designed to give the students what they're looking for the most. Better access to information.
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| | | Curtain Calls ONLINE | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:50:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | ANN ARBOR - The Improv Inferno is pleased to announce a very special "Citizen Improv" on Friday, Jan. 12, starring rap artist and star of the new VH1 show "Ego Trips: The White Rapper Show," MC Serch. Best known for his work as one half of the rap group 3rd Bass, Serch has two gold records, a gold single, and operates his own record and promotions company. In addition, Serch's "The White Rapper Show," which premieres on VH1 on Jan. 8, has received early raves from Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone, which called the show "brilliant." "MC Serch will certainly be one of the most high-profile guests we've had as our Citizen," said Inferno Owner and Artistic Director Dan Izzo. "He's a great artist from the area, and 'Citizen Improv' is all about connecting the people from this area to improv." The show was created by Izzo.... | |
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| | | Top Universities Partner to Offer Online Teaching Credentials | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:53:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | (ARA) - Ashford University and Rio Salado College have partnered to offer aspiring teachers a new opportunity in online education. Ashford now offers a bachelor's degree program designed to provide students with an accelerated way to earn their undergraduate degree and teaching certification."The partnership between Ashford University and Rio Salado College Online offers aspiring teachers an accelerated opportunity to fulfill their dreams," said Ashford University Chancellor Jane McAuliffe. "By combining a bachelor's degree and a teacher preparation program, Ashford and Rio Salado are providing students with a truly unique opportunity."This new degree program prepares students for success with courses that transfer into the Rio Salado teacher preparation program. These classes teach foundational content, methodologies, and functions performed by professionally certified teachers.Upon graduation from Ashford University, you'll complete your teacher certification course work at Rio Salado College Online.... | |
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| | | Pilot online college application program lights up Greene Central ... | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:50:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | SNOW HILL — Amid a flurry of paperwork and the glow from scores of laptop screens in the Greene Central High School media center Thursday, seven seniors huddled together comparing an impressive list of colleges they'd applied to. “This is exciting," said Crystal Sheppard, completing an application to Saint Augustine's College. “We're seniors. It's our last year here." Sheppard, who wants to be a “superstar" and major in visual arts, was one of more than 100 who participated in Greene Central's online college application day — a pilot program co-sponsored by the College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) and the Carolinas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (CACRAO). Greene Central was one of 14 high schools around the state to participate in the online application initiative Thursday.... | |
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| | | Community college gets $67 million in Navy contracts | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:49:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Florida Community College at Jacksonville has won 67 (m) million dollars in Navy contracts to provide college services for about 44-thousand sailors a year. The classes will be taught at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago and Pensacola Naval Air Station and students will have the opportunity to earn a college degree. Both contracts are for five years. Instruction will start in Chicago this month and courses for Pensacola students will start next month. Students can also use an existing federal tuition program to take online classes through F-C-C-J's Virtual College. At Great Lakes, F-C-C-J will be offering job-related programs such as diesel engine maintenance and advanced electronics. Pensacola students will be offered courses related to the field of aviation.... | |
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| | | Milestone for WGU teachers college | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:50:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Western Governors University's teachers college has received full accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. It marks the first time a nontraditional educational institution has received the designation. The nonprofit university was created by governors of 19 states in 1997. In 1999, the first students began to take classes from WGU. Last year WGU applied for NCATE accreditation after the group changed some of its criteria. Traditionally, members of the council's board of examiners visit a campus and collect data. But WGU was the exception to the norm. "Our university is national in scope," Schmidt said. "So they had to go to various parts of the country." The board still met with faculty and current students.... | |
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| | | Financial Aid goes online | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 2:54:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | The traditional Financial Aid award letters will soon go online for Albion College students. Award information will now come to students via e-mail, according to Doug Kellar, associate vice-president of enrollment. The new online interactive Financial Aid award system is already in use at other colleges and universities in Michigan. "This program is being used by other schools and it is working well for them," Kellar said. Albion students will be able to electronically access and review their financial award information and also accept and modify loan amounts, according to Kellar. All sensitive information will be stored on a secure server with user-specific password access, much like the Albion College Information System (ACIS) Albion students use now. Financial Aid hopes to pilot the program with transfer students in spring 2007.... | |
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| | | Barron's names Monmouth a 'best buy' in college education | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:55:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | MONMOUTH - Monmouth College has been selected to appear in the 9th edition of Barron's "Best Buys in College Education," which is now available in bookstores and online. The 708-page guide is designed to assist students and parents seeking a first-rate education at an affordable price. Schools covered in the book range from publicly-supported schools that are virtually tuition-free to moderately-priced ones that provide high-quality education at bargain prices.Colleges are selected to appear in "Best Buys in College Education" based on various criteria, including tuition rates and the results of a questionnaire that is filled out by the dean of students and by students. The final 247 colleges chosen represent the best combination of sound data and student satisfaction. .... | |
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| | | Pick up some tips for college | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:53:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | During a workshop in which I was teaching preteens and teens how to create a budget, I asked one 16-year-old if she was planning to go to college. ``Absolutely," her mother volunteered. And how, I asked the mother, will you pay for her college education? "Oh, we plan on her getting scholarships," the mother responded. "What if she doesn't get any scholarships or grants?" I inquired. I got a blank stare — like the look in the eyes of a deer that once ran into the driver's side of my van. The mother's look told me what she later admitted — that she didn't have a penny saved to send her daughter to college. Many parents and their children approach the college process much like that deer running into the road.... | |
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| | | Online magazine features unpublished Plath poem | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:55:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | RICHMOND, Virginia -- An unpublished sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote in college while pondering themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" has been published in an online literary journal. Ms. Plath, who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, wrote "Ennui" in 1955 in her senior year at Smith College, said Anna Journey, a graduate student in creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. Journey discovered the sonnet while researching Plath archives at Indiana University. The poem is featured in Blackbird, published online by VCU's English department and New Virginia Review. In her personal copy of Fitzgerald's book, Journey said, Ms. Plath wrote the phrase "L'Ennui" -- boredom -- next to a passage in which Jay Gatsby's love interest, Daisy Buchanan, complains that "I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." "She was observing; her notes were creative, metaphorical reactions," she said of Ms.... | |
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| | | Unpublished Plath sonnet sheds light on poet's work in college | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 10:55:22 AM by Blog57 Team | | An unpublished sonnet that Sylvia Plath wrote in college while pondering themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby appeared Wednesday in a Virginia online literary journal. Plath, who committed suicide in 1963 at age 30, wrote Ennui in 1955 in her senior year at Smith College, said Anna Journey, a graduate student in creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. While researching Plath archives at Indiana University, Journey discovered the sonnet had not been published. The poem is featured in Blackbird, published online by VCU's English department and New Virginia Review. In her personal copy of Fitzgerald's book, Journey said, Plath wrote the phrase "L'Ennui" - boredom - next to a passage in which Jay Gatsby's love interest, Daisy Buchanan, complains, "I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." "She was observing; her notes were creative, metaphorical reactions," Journey said.... | |
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