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- Bridgepoint Education's Ashford University Enters Into Alliance Agreement With the National Sheriffs' Association
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- O'Donnell in spotlight after Del. primary victory
| Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:00 AM PDT Press Release Source: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. On Wednesday September 15, 2010, 6:00 am EDT SAN DIEGO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (NYSE:BPI - News), a provider of post-secondary education services focused on providing higher access to higher education, announced today that Ashford University has entered into an alliance agreement with the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA), one of the country's most recognized law enforcement associations. With this alliance agreement, Ashford University has become a preferred provider of online education for the 22,000 members of the NSA. Members will receive significant cost savings through waived fees, a tuition discount and a prior learning credit evaluation toward their Ashford University degree program. "The convenience and flexibility of Ashford University's degree programs make them an ideal option for working adults who are looking to further their education," said Dr. Jane McAuliffe, president and chief executive officer of Ashford University. "We are happy to partner with the National Sheriffs' Association to offer educational opportunities to thousands of law enforcement professionals across the country." "The National Sheriffs' Association is pleased to be part of this innovative partnership with Ashford University," said Fred G. Wilson, director of operations for NSA. "NSA has a long tradition of valuing education. This partnership will allow NSA members, including deputies, correctional officers and court security personnel to leverage their years of work experience along with formal education to earn a degree – this benefits both the members and NSA." For more information on this agreement, please visit success.ashford.edu/sheriffs or call 800.850.4405. About Bridgepoint Education Bridgepoint Education's postsecondary education services focus on offering associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in such disciplines as business, education, psychology, social sciences and health sciences. Bridgepoint Education's regionally accredited academic institutions – Ashford University and University of the Rockies – deliver their programs online as well as at traditional campuses located in Clinton, Iowa, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. For more information about Bridgepoint Education, visit www.bridgepointeducation.com or call Shari Rodriguez, associate vice president of Public Relations at 858.668.2580. About Ashford University Founded in 1918, Ashford University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (www.ncahlc.org). The University offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs online and at its Clinton, Iowa, campus. The University is known for its high quality yet highly affordable online and on-campus programs. For more information, please visit www.ashford.edu or call Shari Rodriguez, associate vice president of Public Relations, at 858.513.9240 x2513. About the National Sheriffs' Association Now in its 70th year of serving the nation's law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals, the National Sheriffs' Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising the level of professionalism among those in the criminal justice field. Through the years, NSA has provided programs for sheriffs, deputies, chiefs of police and others in the field of criminal justice to perform their jobs in the best possible manner and to better serve the people of their cities, counties or jurisdictions. To find out more, visit www.sheriffs.org or call 800.424.7827. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2010 05:00 AM PDT Excellence in online education is fostered through an ongoing cycle of data collection and analysis of learning outcomes, according to Dr. Frank McCluskey, PhD, executive vice president and provost of American Public University System (APUS). McCluskey shared his vision for ensuring academic quality and integrity as a featured speaker in a recent APUS webinar. Charles Town, WV (Vocus) September 15, 2010 -- Excellence in online education is fostered through an ongoing cycle of data collection and analysis of learning outcomes, according to Dr. Frank McCluskey, PhD, executive vice president and provost of American Public University System (APUS). McCluskey shared his vision for ensuring academic quality and integrity as a featured speaker in a recent APUS webinar. To promote accountability among both faculty and administrators, APUS begins with the assumption that its faculty are the experts, and undergoes a data collection process to better assist them in translating their expertise into student learning. "We want to help them free our students from fixed ideas, cloudy thinking and imprecise analysis," said McCluskey. "We want to liberate the learning already taking place." The data collection process encompasses library and learning Resources, curriculum assessment of academic rigor and external feedback from expert reviewers and the Industry Advisory Council. It also includes an analysis of faculty credentials and expertise to ensure breadth and diversity, curricular mapping and program benchmarking with similar programs and institutions. An additional core APUS best practice is to reciprocally inform both internal and external stakeholders on the achievement of student learning outcomes, added McCluskey. "One means of ensuring free and open communications is the Transparency by Design initiative, of which we are one of fourteen charter member institutions," he said. "Another is our Learning Outcomes Assessment website, which continuously documents the results of our data collection efforts." The site can be found at http://www.apus.edu/community-scholars/learning-outcomes-assessment/index.htm It's not enough to simply incorporate assessment data into decision-making processes, according to Jennifer Stephens Helm, Ph.D. associate vice-president and dean of assessment for APUS. "We use a number of nationally benchmarked tests and validated instruments to measure learner engagement, learner success, and learning outcomes," said Helm. "One such measure is the National Survey of Student Engagement, in which APUS is one of the few fully online, for-profit institutions of higher education participating." APUS also uses the Educational Testing Service's (ETS) Proficiency Profile to measure skills of college program graduates, and ETS performs a major field test for seven of its undergraduate majors upon graduation, noted Dave Becher, director of academic information analysis for APUS. "In addition, we participate in the Community of Inquiry end of course survey, which has been proven to be a reliable instrument for helping measure learning outcomes with more than half-a-million students to date." To access an archived playback of the APUS webinar, visit: About American Public University System ### American Public University System This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| O'Donnell in spotlight after Del. primary victory Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:15 PM PDT DOVER, Del. – She has used campaign contributions to help pay the rent, taken more than 20 years to get her bachelor's degree and equated masturbation with adultery. And she just stunned the GOP establishment by beating a nine-term congressman and two-term governor in Delaware's U.S. Senate primary election. Now Republicans across the country and even many Delaware residents want to know: Who is Christine O'Donnell? "I'm an average, hardworking citizen," the 41-year-old said Wednesday. The conservative activist's win Tuesday highlights the power of the tea party movement that championed her, the vulnerability of longtime officeholders and a tricky calculus for Republicans hoping to gain congressional majorities in November. Much of the cheering after her victory over Rep. Mike Castle came from Democrats who consider O'Donnell a weaker opponent who will alienate moderate Republicans. "That creates opportunities for us," Democratic National Committee chief Tim Kaine told NBC's "Today" on Wednesday. Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, who is now trying to fashion GOP majorities in Congress, said much the same thing on Fox News: "This is not a race we're going to be able to win." Castle said through a spokeswoman he does not intend to support O'Donnell. But other Republicans including Sarah Palin and Texas Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, rushed to O'Donnell's defense, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sent $5,000 from his political action committee for her campaign. Those who think she isn't electable should "buck up," Palin, who had endorsed O'Donnell, told Fox News. O'Donnell accused critics within her party of "Republican cannibalism." "We have to rise above this nastiness and unify for the greater good, because there's a lot of work to be done and there are a lot of people who want to get involved if the Republican Party would," O'Donnell said in an interview with The Associated Press. For many Delaware residents O'Donnell remains a mystery, even though more than 30,000 of them voted for her Tuesday. "I've seen the name, but I haven't heard much about her," Annette Carney, a Cheswold resident in her 50s who works in child care, said Wednesday. "I'm surprised that she won against Castle," added Carney, who did not vote in Tuesday's primary. "He's been around forever." O'Donnell first stepped into the political spotlight in the mid-1990s as a conservative activist and cable TV commentator, focusing on issues such as abortion, homosexuality and premarital sex. According to Catholic Outreach, for which she once served as a spokeswoman, O'Donnell was described in one magazine as blending "the King James Bible with Cosmopolitan." She took opposition to premarital sex a step further than usual in a 1996 video aired on MTV that is getting renewed attention. "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust," she explained. O'Donnell's 2006 resume showed that she worked about 18 months as a marketing coordinator for the Republican National Committee, beginning in December 1993, before spending a year as a press secretary for Concerned Women for America, a group that says it works to "bring biblical principles into all levels of public policy." O'Donnell founded and led a group called the Saviors Alliance for Lifting the Truth before taking a job in 2003 with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative think tank based in Wilmington. O'Donnell filed, and later dropped, a sexual discrimination lawsuit against ISI after she was fired less than a year into the job. This is O'Donnell's third Senate campaign in four years. She finished third in a three-way primary race in 2006 and got 35 percent of the vote against then-Sen. Joe Biden in 2008 after winning the GOP nomination at the state party convention. This year, she's running for the seat Biden left to become vice president. She has not had a steady job in years, and former campaign staffers have suggested she has lived off campaign contributions. Finance reports show that political contributions have helped pay her rent because her townhouse has served as her campaign office. O'Donnell denies misspending, saying she has "sold just about every asset I have" and that "I cashed it all out, but I have savings." She added that her financial struggles could actually be an advantage in connecting with voters. "I can relate to what they're doing in terms of wondering where your next paycheck is coming from," she said. Castle and the state GOP accused O'Donnell of lying about her education and leaving a trail of unpaid bills that included unsettled campaign debts, tax liens and a default on her mortgage. After being accused of lying about her college degree, which she had claimed she received in 1993, O'Donnell explained that her diploma was withheld because of outstanding education bills. She finally received her degree this month. O'Donnell, who is single, believes her views on social issues dovetail with her philosophy as a Senate candidate opposed to big government. "As I was in Washington, D.C., advocating for the social issues, I realized that they're all connected, that your approach to protecting the human dignity and protecting the individual definitely reflects in your fiscal policy, and that's why I'm a fiscal conservative," O'Donnell explained Wednesday. "I believe that every individual has a unique, unrepeatable preciousness, and that our fiscal policy should be one that encourages and empowers the individual creativity," added O'Donnell. O'Donnell's Democratic opponent in November election, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons, hopes to cast her as too conservative for Delaware, where Democratic voters far outnumber Republicans. "As best as I can tell, much of Ms. O'Donnell's public life has been dedicated to promoting a very narrow social agenda," Coons said. O'Donnell says her career has been "pretty much as an advocate, taking on nonprofit clients and nonprofit causes for nearly 20 years," O'Donnell said. "I think that's exactly what prepares me for the U.S. Senate, to be an advocate for folks here in Delaware who have been shut out of the political process." ___ Online: ___ Associated Press Writer Sarah Brumfield contributed to this story. 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