Bisk Education’s University Alliance Online division ( http://www.universityalliance.com ), the worldwide leader in multimedia education online, announced recently that it has partnered with the ROI Institute(TM) to provide a new online ROI methodology program and prestigious industry certification. Classes begin 5/1/06.
The comprehensive online master certificate program is based on the Phillips ROI Methodology(TM), a step-by-step [...]

Palm Beach Community College was recently awarded $8,608 for scholarships as part of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s (BCBSF) $2.5 million initiative to tackle the severe nursing shortage.
The money is the first distribution from an endowment seeded by BCBSF and matched by the state legislature that will be administered by the Foundation for [...]

MEMBERS OF the Caribbean Educators Association (CARE) have awarded scholarships to two graduating high school seniors of Caribbean descent, and have donated school supplies and toys to the Woodlawn School of Special Education in Mandeville, Manchester.
The scholarship recipients are Kaidero Hutchinson, a Jamaican national of Pahokee Senior High School, who intends to attend Florida State [...]

Women in Corporate Aviation, Intl. (WCA) is pleased to announce it will present several scholarships at the 2006 NBAA Annual Meeting & Convention, Oct. 17-19, in Orlando, Florida. These scholarships are open to both men and women interested in continued pursuit of a career in many job classifications in corporate/business aviation or those interested in [...]

For the sixth year, the Florida Association of Realtors is sponsoring its Scholarship/Essay Contest for High School Seniors. This allows individual students the opportunity to win up to $6,500 in scholarships.
HOW TO ENTER: Students must write a typed, double-spaced essay (500 words or less) on the topic, “How Does a Realtor professional Benefit the Community?”

First-of-its-Kind Grant from National Science Foundation Funds Scholarships for Data Center Training
ORANGE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 14, 2006–AFCOM, the leading association for data center professionals, has partnered with the Institute for Data Center Professionals (IDCP) at Marist College to award two of 30 scholarships to the IDCP’s online data center certification program for 2006, one of the [...]

In order to advance Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center’s shift to making the center a more home-like environment for its residents, Alan Dahms and Polli Talton-Dahms of Fort Morgan have donated $110,000 from their new foundation to the center and have created four scholarships for licensed practical and registered nurses.
The $110,000 was donated to the [...]

The Wachovia Foundation has established an endowed scholarship fund at the University of North Florida for students majoring in teacher education.
Wachovia will contribute $300,000 to UNF’s College of Education over a three-year period. The gift is eligible for state matching funds at 50 percent. The money will be used to establish needs-based scholarships for [...]

The federal Education Department has agreed to review requests from 20 states to alter significantly the way they measure student progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. The move comes as the number of schools across the country deemed substandard under that law grows by the thousands.
The requests, which Education Secretary Margaret Spellings invited [...]

Book That Enlightens, Empowers and Motivates Children to Get Healthy Included on the Department’s Web-Based List ‘Legal and Social Compliance Approved Out-of-Cycle Instructional Materials’
Child health advocate Merilee A. Kern, co-founder and CEO of www.KidsHealthDepot.com — a soon-to-launch online catalog offering “Solutions That Foster Healthy Children(TM),” today announced that her healthy living-themed fictional children’s book, “It’s [...]