Northcentral University (NCU) (http://www.ncu.edu/elt_details.asp), among the nation’s top accredited online universities, today announced a graduate level specialization aimed squarely at the fastest growing segment of modern education — online learning. The title of the new online education program specialization is E-Learning and Teaching Online (ELT). Dr. Sue LeBeau, NCU Associate Professor of Education, developed the [...]

Mid-Plains board members heard an in-depth presentation on enrollment, marketing and public information by Chuck Salestrom, Area Director of Public Information and Marketing, Brenda Costin, Area Dean of Enrollment Management, at their meeting Wednesday on the McCook Community College campus.
The college had an overall 2.28 percent increase in enrollment for the 2005-06 term, they said, [...]

Legal Aid University, a Boston organization that provides continuing education for legal aid attorneys, received a $50,000 grant from the American College of Trial Lawyers to improve its online training program.
The money was part of the association’s Emil Gumpert Award, which honors programs that maintain or improve the administration of justice. The award recognized LAU’s [...]

The AT&T Foundation and the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships have given a $99,500 grant to Central Michigan University and its partnership with the Flint School District and others.
The grant is for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP), a federal program that aims to help low-income youth achieve a [...]

Michael Watts of Oak Park received a $5,000 scholarship in honor of Teradyne Inc. cofounder, Peter Hashem.
Watts is the son of Leah and David Watts and will be majoring in physics at UC Berkeley.
Teradyne, an electronics testing equipment company in Agoura Hills, established the scholarship to remember Hashem, who was a victim of the terrorist [...]

PARENTS of the over one hundred indigenes of Rivers State who were recently awarded scholarship to study at Kuban State University of Technology, Krasnodar, Southern Russia, have organised themselves into a formidable association known as Parents of Rivers State Students on Scholarship in Russia (PRSSSR) in order to present a united front in expressing their [...]

Fitch assigns the following ratings to the $200,000,000 Connecticut Student Loan Foundation (CSLF) Student Loan Revenue Bonds:
Ratings for New Issuance:
* $80,000,000 Senior Series 20046-1 ‘AAA’;
* $100,000,000 Senior Series 2006A-2 ‘AAA’;
* $20,000,000 Subordinate Series 2006B ‘A’.
In addition, Fitch confirms the ratings of the following [...]

Friends of late radio pioneer Ralph Epperson and his widow have donated money to a Galax-based foundation to create a scholarship in his name.
Epperson, a longtime broadcasting innovator and preserver of traditional music, died May 31 at age 85. Among the Mount Airy, N.C., man’s many radio stations was WBRF-98.1 FM in Galax.
The Earlene and [...]

College-bound Navajos have less than a week left to apply for a new scholarship designed to spare them the choice of trading military service for financial aid. Applications are due Aug. 1.
The scholarships worth up to $3,000 per student are courtesy of the Santa Fe chapter of Veterans for Peace. Their aim is to keep [...]

Oklahoma City University School of Law launched a study-abroad program this month with one of China’s most prestigious law schools. An agreement between OCU and Nankai University School of Law in Tianjin, China, culminated one year of negotiations for a “Summer Institute for International Law,” which focuses on international and comparative law.
Four OCU law students [...]