Kansas Board of Regents tours KCKCC
Kansas Board of Regents member Fred Logan got an in-depth look at several of the many and diversified programs offered by Kansas City Kansas Community College Tuesday. President Dr. Doris Givens was joined by Provost Dr. Tamara Agha-Jaffar and Academic Deans Shirley Wendel, Nursing; Dr. Ed Kremer, Mathematics, Science and Computer Technology; Dr. Cherilee Walker, Humanities and Fine Arts; and Dr ...
How Many Manufacturing Jobs Can U.S. Realistically Maintain?
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio MARGARET WARNER: Now, the prospects for creating a more robust manufacturing sector in the U.S. It's a theme both President Obama and the Republican candidates are sounding this week as they talk about reviving a stronger economy. Ray Suarez explores the challenges ahead, beginning with some background. RAY SUAREZ: A conveyor belt manufacturing plant in Cedar ...
In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges
Here's a job most 27-year-olds never get: starting up a new university – from scratch. Like an Athenian at the dawn of Greece, Dhawal Sharma is converting 25 acres of farmland outside New Delhi worked by man and ox for millenniums into the kind of marble-and-grass campus that launches odysseys of the mind.
Colleges enthused as iTunes classes go live
There's a pretty high level of excitement flowing from Thursday's arrival of the iTunes U app. Harvard University is now adding its science + cooking lectures from its school of Engineering and Science for what will likely be an interesting public offering. Titles like 'Olive Oil and Viscosity' and 'Meat Glue Mania' sound intriguing. Anyone with an iPad or iPhone can use the app and access the ...
Text of Quinn's State of the State address
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn delivered his State of the State address on Wednesday at the Illinois Capitol. Here is the full text provided by the governor's office (and here is audio from WDWS of the speech): ___ read more
Leading Business Intelligence on the Middle East & North Africa
Dubai, 01 February 2012: SAE Institute Dubai, the region's leading creative media education institute has announced a host of new training and certification courses for the first quarter of 2012, led by Apple Certification Training focused on Final Cut Pro X and Apple Logic Pro.
DeVry Inc. Announces Second-Quarter 2012 Results
DeVry Inc. , a global provider of educational services, today reported financial results for its fiscal 2012 second-quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011. These results contain two
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Proposed D.C. Law Could Make College Applications Mandatory
By: Sayre Quevedo Kwame Brown, Chairman of Washington DC’s City Council, is the youngest chairman in the history of the city. As a result, Brown says...
How goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing
The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003. But, say the store's two owners, the future is uncertain as long as they can't count on safe streets, stable government and reliable electricity supplies.
Hemphill: Apple’s new idea could revolutionize education
One of the new hand grenades tossed last week into the education reform movement was the Apple announcement regarding education textbooks: They will henceforth be available on the iPad2 cheaply, they will be interactive, updated, and a student will be able to mark them up and keep them for life.