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..The OBAMA Campaign Homepage (090208) … One click menus: put Barak Obama in Your Kindle’s browser

November 7th, 2008

Want to go visit Democratic websites in one or two Kindle clicks? Click preset Google search about Barak and Joe and Hillary and search anything else, too? Now you can! Just click this HOMEPAGE and there they all are — LIVE — the REAL places to get Obama’s latest [...]

Student Loan Network Announces First Quarter 2007 Scholarship Winners

April 24th, 2007

ScholarshipPoints.com, a free service from the Student Loan Network, has announced its first quarter scholarship winners. Chris Wendorf, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, received the first-place scholarship of $1000; Jonald Allan Gonzalez, Brigham Young University – Hawaii, received the second-place $500 scholarship; and Helen Hawkey, University of Pittsburgh, took the third-place $250 scholarship. All three [...]

New SHU program creates full-tuition scholarship

March 15th, 2007

Starting in the academic year of 2007-08, Seton Hill University (SHU) will offer a new scholarship available to incoming freshman.
This is the new “Seton Scholars” program, and four incoming freshman will be chosen to receive a full-tuition scholarship, renewable for four years, valued at $100,000 each.
One scholarship will be offered in each academic division-one in [...]

Online Fitness Industry Training Helps Students Limber Up and Graduate, Not Drop Out

December 14th, 2006

Online training provider Fitness Industry Education (FIE – http://www.fitnessindustryeducation.co.uk ) is launching several new courses through its ‘Learning Management System’ (LMS), starting in December 06.
FIE already offers high quality and affordable online distance learning courses in fitness related subjects such as Personal Training, Exercise to Music/Aerobics Instructor and Weight Management. The company is now adding [...]

2006 Finalists in Air New Zealand Inspiring New Zealanders in Fashion Scholarship Announced

September 18th, 2006

Air New Zealand has announced the four finalists in the Air New Zealand Inspiring New Zealanders in Fashion scholarship.
FinalistsAbby Van Schreven, Helen Adam and Katie-Maree Martin are all from Dunedin and the fourth finalist Sara Smeath is from Wellington.
The four finalists have been selected by Karen Walker following an online application process and the submission [...]

College officials explore new ways to attract students

July 28th, 2006

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, [...]

Look at your school loan options

April 25th, 2006

By HELEN HUNTLEY
If you borrowed money for college and haven’t paid it all back, I have a homework assignment for you:
Take a close look at your options for consolidating federal education loans.
And if you’re in the borrowing stage, be prepared to pay more. On July 1, we officially say goodbye to the era of record [...]

University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) to deliver online courses to China

April 18th, 2006

Moving forward in its efforts to enhance educational opportunities and advance technology in higher education, the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) will design a model for delivering online courses to China via streaming audio and video, discussions, blogs, wikis and other creative educational techniques.
UMC was recently awarded a $10,000 Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) grant to [...]