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Phoenix Law Review Celebrates the Publication of Its Distinctive Law Journal–Legal Education Issue
Phoenix School of Law’s progressive law journal, Phoenix Law Review, is proud to announce the publication of its Volume III: Legal Education Issue. The journal discusses the ever-changing law student population, the necessary adjustments legal education must make in order to better accommodate those students, and the newest legal education models in practice today. - November 25, 2010 - Phoenix School of Law
HealthCare Builder Adds Health Care Interview Section
Real Health Care Students and Working Professionals Giving Insight Into the Many Health Care Careers - November 25, 2010 - Health Care Builder
Giovanni Dosi of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and Friedrich Schiller University to be Awarded a Grant From the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Dosi’s research into some of the core issues concerning the operation of modern economic systems and the building blocks for alternative economic theories - November 25, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Gerald Epstein and James Crotty of University of Massachusetts, Amherst to be Awarded a Grant From the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund professors Epstein and Crotty to peform in-depth research on issues surrounding “too big to fail” - November 25, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Amputee on Wheels Gives Positive Spin to Life
Monica J. Foster is a vibrant amputee on wheels known as The Life Beyond Limits Coach®. Monica, who is a wheelchair user and amputee and the daughter of a disabled Coast Guard veteran, is a professional life, life purpose and vision board coach focused on helping people of all abilities strip off hurtful labels that's been pinned on them by others and shed self limiting beliefs about who they are and can be in this world. - November 24, 2010 - BUTTERFLYWHEEL® Motivation, Advocacy & Consulting
Online Degree Program Launches at Jackson State University
Education Online Services Corporation expands online offerings for Jackson State University with Bachelors of Science in Childcare and Family Education Degree Completion Program - November 24, 2010 - Education Online Services Corp
American University in Bulgaria Tops First Official Ranking of Bulgarian Universities
Bulgaria’s first university ranking system compares academic disciplines in Bulgaria-accredited higher-education institutions. The system ranks programs based on more than 50 indicators. - November 24, 2010 - American University in Bulgaria
Arindrajit Dube of University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Ethan Kaplan of Columbia University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Dube and Professor Kaplan’s project to conduct research on spatial approach to macroeconomic inference. - November 24, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Top-Tier Tutoring Releases Podcast That Offers Tips for Visiting College Campuses
In his latest podcast, Mike Rivera of Top-Tier Tutoring offers tips for high school students and their parents when they visit a college campus, including scheduling, questions to ask and note taking. - November 24, 2010 - Top-Tier Tutoring, LLC
The Institute for New Economic Thinking Has Launched Its Campus Outreach Program Led by Dr. Robert Johnson and with Professors Stiglitz, Akerlof, and Eichengreen
World-renowned economists engage with students to discuss pressing economic issues, the economics curriculum, and the economics profession in the wake of global financial crisis. - November 22, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
HB Academics Manhattan NY 2010-2011 LSAT GMAT GRE MCAT SAT New Offerings
Founded by Harvard, Stanford, and HB Faculty, HB Academics is offering customized exam preparation in Manhattan LSAT GMAT GRE MCAT SAT - New Academic Year 2010-2011 - November 22, 2010 - HB Academics
Babington Group Targets Expansion in Stoke
Staff, employers and learners at Babington Business College are celebrating the opening of a new, modern, purpose-designed learning and administration centre in the city by post 16 learning provider Babington Business College. - November 21, 2010 - Babington Business College
WorldSkills Winners Receive Medals from Baroness Wilcox
Baroness Wilcox, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Business, Innovation and Skills presented three Apprentices learning at Babington Business College with their WorldSkills Bronze Medals. - November 21, 2010 - Babington Business College
Stevens Dr. Miasnikov Receives Marsden Fund Award
Dr. Alexei Miasnikov, Director of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology, recently received the prestigious and competitive Marsden Fund Award as a Principal Investigator on the project, “From automatic groups to automatic structures and beyond,” an... - November 21, 2010 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Filmmakers of "Lost Nation: the Ioway" and "Villisca: Living with a Mystery" Turn Their Lens on the Life, Death and Rebirth of the One-Room School
World premiere celebration in Des Moines on November 19 at the State Historical Building. A searchlight will guide attendees to the festivities. - November 19, 2010 - Fourth Wall Films
Baroness Wilcox in Derby to Open New Facilities for National Training Group
The independent college, which specialises in vocational skills development and Apprenticeships, is relocating from Charnwood Street and upgrading its Corporate Office and training facilities to new, spacious premises at Pullman Business Park on Pride Park. Learners and staff will enjoy light and spacious accommodation and new, state-of-the-art IT and learning equipment. - November 19, 2010 - Babington Business College
Bentley University Improves Compliance and Awareness with MOAT
Bentley University successfully implemented Awareity’s award-winning MOAT (Managed Ongoing Awareness and Trust) tools to address obligations for security awareness, risk management, privacy, compliance and more. - November 18, 2010 - Awareity
MIT OpenCourseWare Named WISE Award Laureate
Qatar Foundation selects OCW as a winner of the 2010 World Innovation Summit for Education Award. - November 17, 2010 - MIT OpenCourseWare
VERGO Interactive Introduces the New Redesigned UniversityDecisions.com
The educational resource offers a variety of new tools and features to choose a college degree. - November 17, 2010 - VERGO Interactive, Inc.
Melissa Tartari of Yale University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Tartari’s project to conduct an explorative data collection project. - November 17, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Facundo Alvaredo of the Paris School of Economics, Sir Tony Atkinson of Nuffield College and Salvatore Morelli of Oxford University to be Awarded a Grant from INET
The Institute for New Economic Thinking will fund professors Alvaredo, Atkinson and Morelli to Research the Long Run History of Economic Inequality: Income, Wealth, and Financial Crisis. - November 17, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Sophus Reinert and Francesca Viano of Cambridge University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET Grant will fund Professor Reinert and Professor Viano’s project to make historically significant economics texts available in English for the first time. - November 17, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jayant Ganguli of Cambridge University and Scott Condie of Brigham Young University be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET Grant will fund Professor Ganguli and Professor Condie’s project to examine the informational inefficiency of market prices in the presence of Knightian uncertainty or ambiguity. - November 17, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Diego Comin of Harvard University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
An INET grant will fund Professor Comin to study the drivers and consequences of technology adoption. - November 17, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
CFES School-College Partnerships Succeed in Rural Areas
A University of Michigan report found positive outcomes for rural students engaged in the school-college partnerships created by College For Every Student (CFES), a non-profit organization that prepares underrepresented students for academic success in college. - November 16, 2010 - College For Every Student
Coventry University, UK Partners Centum U for a Global MBA Degree Programme
Centum U, has announced the launch of a uniquely designed, global MBA programme in partnership with the Coventry University of UK. - November 16, 2010 - Centum Learning Ltd.
Apprentices Celebrate Graduation at Pride Park Stadium
Pride Park in Derby hosted the first of this season’s celebrations as over 50 young people from Derby-based learning provider Babington Business College received hard earned Apprenticeship qualifications. - November 14, 2010 - Babington Business College
Klohn Crippen Berger Co-Hosts Opening of the North Lecture Theatres at the University of Alberta
Members of the government, public and private sectors came together to celebrate the opening of the North Lecture Theatres at the Centennial Centre for or Interdisciplinary Science on Monday, November 8th, 2010. Klohn Crippen Berger co-hosted the event which included a cocktail reception and a... - November 13, 2010 - Klohn Crippen Berger
Antonine University Purchases the Complete UniversiTools SIS & Scheduling Software Solution by White Mountain Technologies
Université des Pères Antonins (UPA), known as Antonine University, purchased UniversiTools Student Information System (SIS) developed by White Mountain Technologies. - November 13, 2010 - White Mountain Technologies
Lori Duggan Gold Joins the Board of Directors of the Long Island Fund for Women and Girls
Adelphi University is pleased to announce that its Vice President for Communications, Lori Duggan Gold, has become a member of the Board of Directors of the Long Island Fund for Women and Girls (LIFWG). As a member of the Board of Directors, Ms. Duggan Gold will serve on the Development Committee... - November 12, 2010 - Adelphi University
33 Colleges, Universities Using CAMS Enterprise™ ERP Now Ranked in Washington Monthly 2010 College Guide
North Country Community College is ranked tops in New York state, No. 22 nationally - November 12, 2010 - Three Rivers Systems Inc.
Adelphi University Featured on Colleges of Distinction™ a Leader in Educational Excellence
Adelphi University is featured on CollegesofDistinction.com, an online guide that takes a fresh look at colleges and universities appealing to students’ unique and varied interests. Based on the opinions of guidance counselors, educators, and admissions professionals, Colleges of... - November 12, 2010 - Adelphi University
Speakers Share Experience with EMT Students
Usually emergency medical technicians are pressed for time. But for the EMTs speaking at one conference, they were pressed for information. - November 11, 2010 - UniversalCareers.org
National Awards for The Roundhouse, Derby College
Derby College’s £48 million vocational campus has been hailed as the Education Project of the Year at the 2010 LABC National Building Excellence Awards held at The Brewery in London. The awards, presented by Local Authority Building Control celebrate the excellence of building quality... - November 10, 2010 - Derby College
National-Louis University Receives $2.5 Million Innovation Grant
National-Louis is the Only Illinois University to be Awarded $2.5 Million Innovation Grant. National-LouisUniversity has received a $2.5 million investing in innovation (i3) grant through the U.S. Department of Education to expand Reading Recovery, an early literacy intervention education... - November 10, 2010 - National Louis University
Innovativ Consulting Partners Announces New Options for Evaluating Kuali Software
Innovativ Consulting Partners, a leading open source consultant and service provider for online solutions, has announced new alternatives for institutions interested in evaluating Kuali solutions. - November 10, 2010 - Innovativ Consulting Partners, LLC
Katharina Pistor of Columbia Law School to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Pistor’s multidisciplinary research to perform a series of case studies that would construct a new theory of the relationship between laws and markets. - November 08, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Steven Medema of University of Colorado Denver to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Medema’s project to write an intellectual history of the Coase theorem - November 08, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Cosma Shalizi, Mark Schervish and Daniel Mcdonald of Carnegie Mellon University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund a project to extend proven techniques in statistical learning theory - November 08, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
James Robinson of Harvard University and Steven Pincus of Yale University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Robinson and Professor Pincus’ research project relating to a new interpretation of the events causing the British Industrial Revolution - November 08, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Margaret Levenstein of the University of Michigan and Naomi Lamoreaux of Yale University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Levenstein and Professor Lamoreaux’s project to examine historically the long-term costs of macroeconomic instability in a major metropolitan area. - November 06, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Adelphi University Launches New Advertising Campaign: Success
Adelphi University's new marketing campaign, “Success,” takes a bold direction that departs from traditional collegiate advertising. With it, Adelphi establishes itself as a world-class, modern university, transforming the lives of its students. - November 06, 2010 - Adelphi University
Edward J Kane of Boston College, Armen Hovakimian, and Luc Laeven to be Awarded a Grant from Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Kane’s project to conduct a macroeconomics research project relating to systemic risk. - November 05, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Leanne Ussher of Queens College City University of New York, Sorin Solomon and Marco Lamieri to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Ussher’s project to simulate how distress and growth propagate through the real economy. - November 05, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
D. Wade Hands of University of Puget Sound to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Hands’ project to conduct the initial research and archiving work at Duke University’s Paul Samuelson archives. - November 05, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Steven Fazzari of Washington University Receives Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Fazzari’s project to develop an original model of Keynesian demand-led growth in developed economies and activities to communicate basic principles of Keynesian macroeconomics to a wide audience - November 05, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
David Weinstein of Columbia University to be Awarded a Grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Institute will fund Professor Weinstein’s project to research how the output of firms outside of the financial sector are affected by the health of the banks and other financial institutions. - November 05, 2010 - Institute for New Economic Thinking
Military Times Edge Ranks AIU in the Top 100 Colleges for Vets
American InterContinental University (AIU), a leading provider of career-focused education, has been selected as a Best College for Vets according to a list published by Military Times Edge magazine. - November 04, 2010 - American InterContinental University - AIU
Olalah Njenga, Award Winning CEO and Author, Named to Wake Technical Community College Advisory Board
Award winning CEO, Marketing Strategist and Author Olalah Njenga named as Business and Industry Services advisory committee member at Wake Tech for third year in a row. - November 03, 2010 - YellowWood Group, LLC
Mechdyne CAVE to be Featured on Discovery Science Channel Episode
The CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment integrated by Mechdyne Corporation in March 2009, at Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey, will be featured in an episode of Sci Fi Science—Physics of the Impossible airing on the Discovery Science Channel beginning November 3, 2010, at 9 p.m. - November 03, 2010 - Mechdyne Corporation