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- Kuhn earns degree from St. Joseph's
- GetEducated.com Online School Reviews to Support Project Linus Charity for Children
- Kaplan University Announces Agreement with Maricopa Integrated Health System to Provide Access to Online Degree Programs
- Wal-Mart Finds Ally in Education
| Kuhn earns degree from St. Joseph's Posted: 10 Jun 2010 09:55 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. SHIPPENSBURG -- Jane Kuhn, Shippensburg, received a bachelor's degree in professional arts, magna cum laude, through the graduate and professional studies division at St. Joseph's College of Maine in Standish, which offers online education for working adults. St. Joseph's College of Maine offers traditional, four-year bachelor's degrees to students at its southern Maine campus on Sebago Lake and online undergraduate and graduate programs to working adults throughout the country. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| GetEducated.com Online School Reviews to Support Project Linus Charity for Children Posted: 10 Jun 2010 08:15 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Online university ranking group to give donations to Project Linus for online degree reviews it receives in June. Project Linus provides blankets to needy, ill and traumatized babies and toddlers. The charity was chosen by a GetEducated employee whose child was hospitalized earlier this year. GetEducated.com is supporting charities as part of its online university reviews project, which gathers public opinion about distance learning degrees and colleges. (PRWEB) June 10, 2010 -- GetEducated.com's employees have chosen Project Linus, a nonprofit charity for sick children, to receive donations from its national online school reviews project for the month of June. GetEducated.com will donate $1 for every valid online degree review posted to its website by online college students and the general public in June. Project Linus donates handmade blankets and quilts to hospitalized, ill and needy children. GetEducated.com, a consumer group that publishes online degree rankings, supports a different charity each month as part of its online university review incentive program. The charities are chosen by the employees of GetEducated. Melissa Eubank, GetEducated's Director of Information Services, chose Project Linus as the June beneficiary. Eubank learned about Project Linus firsthand when her 18-month-old son, Xavier, became ill and was admitted to the hospital. "A nurse came in with a blanket that had race cars on it," recalls Eubank. The blanket took the place of the typical institutional, white hospital blanket. "For the two days we were in the hospital, if I took the blanket away from Xavier, he'd pull it back," says Eubank. "He wanted to be touching it. It made him feel comfortable and safe, and that made me feel better, too." Since its founding in 1995, Project Linus has given away more than 3 million homemade blankets and quilts. GetEducated is collecting online university reviews from the public and verified online students in an effort to help consumers make more informed choices about the best online schools. Other charities that GetEducated.com has supported in 2010 as part of its efforts to build a national system of online degree reviews include Doctors Without Borders and the Arbor Foundation. About: Founded in 1989, GetEducated.com is a consumer group that reviews and ranks online university degree programs along the dimensions of cost, quality and credibility. The group issues report cards on accredited online degree programs in an effort to bring transparency to the online education selection process in terms of cost, public perception and student satisfaction. CONTACT: Vicky Phillips, GetEducated.com, LLC, Essex Junction, VT. 05452. 802-899-4866. Website: http://www.geteducated.com ### GetEducated.com, LLC Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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Kaplan University today announced an agreement with Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) that provides a 15 percent reduced tuition rate and access to deferred direct billing for health system employees enrolled in the University's online degree programs. "This agreement with Maricopa Integrated Health System is designed to provide more affordable and accessible education options to help employees achieve their academic goals," said Jaime Cocuy, vice president of Kaplan University's Strategic Alliances Organization. "At Kaplan University, we offer an innovative approach to higher education that allows students to leverage their previous work and life experience to customize their degree programs. Our student-centered environment fosters success." The agreement allows eligible employees of the Phoenix-based MIHS to receive the special tuition rate on all Kaplan University online degree programs, including those offered through the Kaplan Higher Education School of Nursing, which ranks fourth among U.S. schools for graduating the most nursing students. The tuition reduction also extends to programs offered by Kaplan Continuing Education, which offers online professional certificates in IT, business and healthcare, and Kaplan Virtual Education, which offers online high school options. "The mission of our System underscores the importance of educating those who support and care for our patients and the relationship with Kaplan University underscores this commitment," said Marshall Jones, the MIHS Senior Vice President of Human Resources. In addition to its nursing programs, Kaplan University offers degrees in business, information technology, health and wellness, and education, among other disciplines. The University combines a highly supportive environment with an outcomes-driven curriculum. It offers a suite of personalized services including career counseling, one-on-one academic advising, online tutoring and success diagnostics that help students craft a course of study that maximizes their career potential. It also allows students to customize their education through universal degree plans designed to allow students to transfer in previously earned college credits, military experience and qualified life credits. Kaplan also has more than 30 student clubs, professional organizations and honor societies. For more information, visit www.MIHS.Kaplan.edu. About Maricopa Integrated Health System Maricopa Integrated Health System is headquartered in the heart of Phoenix. The cornerstone of the system is Maricopa Medical Center (MMC), a major teaching hospital with a history dating back more than 100 years. Best known for its critical care services, the hospital offers Level One pediatric and adult trauma and intensive care for adults, babies and children. Two in-patient psychiatric care centers with nearly 200 beds provide services in behavioral medicine. MIHS is also home to the nation's second largest burn treatment facility, the Arizona Burn Center as well as eleven family health centers located throughout the Valley. About Kaplan University Kaplan University offers a different school of thought for higher education. It strives to help adult students unlock their talent by providing a practical, student-centered education that prepares them for careers in some of the fastest-growing industries. Based in Davenport, Iowa, the University is regionally accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). Kaplan University has more than 125 academic programs and offerings, and serves more than 78,000 online and campus-based students. The University has 12 campuses in Iowa, Nebraska, Maryland and Maine, and Kaplan University Learning Centers in Wisconsin, Florida, Indiana and Missouri. Kaplan University is part of Kaplan Higher Education, which serves more than 119,000 students online and through more than 70 campus-based schools across the United States and abroad. Kaplan Higher Education schools offer a spectrum of academic opportunities, from certificates and diplomas to graduate and professional degrees, including a juris doctor degree. Kaplan Higher Education is part of Kaplan, Inc., a leading international provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Kaplan, Inc. is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO), and its largest and fastest-growing division. For more information about Kaplan University, visit www.kaplan.edu. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Wal-Mart Finds Ally in Education Posted: 09 Jun 2010 07:05 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. The retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, was looking for a partner to offer online college courses to its work force in the United States. Might American Public Education — which runs two Web-based universities — be interested? By January, American Public put together a team devoted to landing the Wal-Mart contract, and last week, the two companies announced an agreement. Wal-Mart committed to spending $50 million over the next three years in tuition and other assistance for employees who enroll. Since then, shares in the $850 million education company, which started 19 years ago as a provider of classes to military personnel and now offers degrees in 76 fields, have risen 11 percent, and its profile in the for-profit education field has soared. "It puts them on the map in a way they haven't been," said Trace A. Urdan, senior analyst in San Francisco with Signal Hill, an investment bank. And the partnership, in Wal-Mart's eyes, could be a tool to improve American competitiveness, American Public's chief executive, Wallace E. Boston Jr., said on Wednesday at a conference sponsored by UBS in New York. But the choice of American Public, which has about 70,000 students in 100 countries, was a surprise on a number of fronts, analysts said. The organization is best known for its 45,000 students in a division called American Military University. The operation working with Wal-Mart, American Public University, is dwarfed by competing players. University of Phoenix, the country's biggest for-profit school, has nearly a half million students at 200 locations. By contrast, American Public operates from its headquarters in tiny Charles Town, W.Va., about 75 miles northwest of Washington, with 980 employees and is solely online. In a telephone interview, Mr. Boston agreed the deal was a game changer for a school that eschews advertising and finds students primarily through word of mouth. "This partnership is getting our brand out there without us having to spend money," he said. Richard Garrett, a managing director of Eduventures, a higher education consulting company based in Boston, said the venture was ideal for Wal-Mart's broad employee base. "No single or even a consortia of brick-and-mortar schools could offer face-to-face facilities" on the scale Wal-Mart required, he said. Still, the choice of American Public might not sit well with conventional schools, said Jolene L. Knapp, executive director for the Society for College and University Planning, whose members help universities prepare for the future. "Many in the traditional higher education world will decry this partnership," she said. "But many, many changes are coming to postsecondary education. This is just one." And, she said, the arrangement could wind up transforming American Public as much as it does Wal-Mart, since it will have the opportunity to learn how the retailer operates. Wal-Mart may be willing to share its knowledge, given that it came to American Public. There was no request for a proposal from the universities it surveyed or any open bidding process, Mr. Boston said. Instead, Wal-Mart surveyed 81 institutions, including for-profits, nonprofits, online universities, brick-and-mortar colleges, and "even some of the open-source, open-platform online offerings that are out there," said Alicia Ledlie Brew, senior director of Wal-Mart's lifelong learning program. It had several criteria: a program with clear, low pricing (American Public charges $250 a credit hour, a price that has not changed in 10 years, Mr. Boston told the UBS audience); one that was accredited; a college that offered a variety of degrees and course subjects; and one that was used to dealing with adult students. In a survey of employees, more than two-thirds told Wal-Mart they preferred an online college to a physical one. Wal-Mart was specifically interested in American Public's degree program in retail management, as well as transportation logistics handling, which is among the school's 10 most popular specialties, Mr. Boston said. The university is offering students who already work in those areas at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club credits for real-world experience that will count toward their degrees. Students also are receiving a 15 percent discount in the credit-hour rate. With the credits and discount, a typical cashier would pay $11,700 for an associate degree and $24,000 for a four-year degree. (Nationally, the average tuition for a four-year degree from a public university is about $28,000, according to the College Board.) Mr. Boston and his team stressed the organization's history of offering classes to the nation's more than one million military personnel. These students are often older than conventional undergraduates, hold jobs and work shifts at various times of day in different time zones. Ms. Brew said that that background was a deciding factor for Wal-Mart in choosing American Public. Yet analysts have questioned whether it will have the resources to deal with a deluge of new students. "They can recruit counselors and faculty," Mr. Urdan, the analyst, said. "But when you have to do it at a breakneck pace, it's something altogether different." Both Ms. Brew and Mr. Boston declined to predict how many Wal-Mart employees would choose college classes once they were eligible to sign up. For one thing, Wal-Mart employees will have to determine how to juggle the demands of online classes with their job and family responsibilities, Mr. Boston said. "We don't think this will explode off the start," he said. "What we think we'll see is early adopters, and the early adopters who like it will tell others." In the meantime, the two companies are still getting acquainted. Mr. Boston said the relationship was going well, but the giant retailer — used to dealing with thousands of suppliers around the world — was still adjusting to the unusual nature of their agreement. "We had to keep reminding them in a nice way that we weren't an outsourced provider, we're a university," Mr. Boston said. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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