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Higher Ed Professionals’ Perspectives on Online Education

The recent growth of online education has added a new dimension to college learning that was unthinkable a few decades ago. Knocking down the traditional notion of the “ivory tower” college campus, online education presents an entirely new classroom paradigm, a shift resulting in more opportunities and challenges. For insight into both, we turned to college professors and administrators who reveal the good and the bad that accompany an online college education.

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At Georgia Perimeter College, Online Teaching Has Its Benefits — Tenure

Michael T. Bradley is a full-time online- only professor. In the virtual classroom of his “World Religion and Introduction to Ethics” classes at Georgia Perimeter College, a two-year college in suburban Atlanta, Bradley employs a teaching style that both personalizes him to his students and encourages them to interact with one another.

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Making a Positive Impact in Students’ Lives

Along with implementing deliberate retention policies, hiring the right people to encourage students to persist in college is essential.

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Using Social Networking Sites as Student Engagement Tools

Facebook and other sites may serve as a better communication channel between students and professors, but there are drawbacks to consider.

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Approaching Diversity From the Top Down

Three university presidents talk about recruiting and retaining diverse populations as well as the diversity challenges that remain at their respective institutions.

Students Engaged in Extracurricular Programs Perform Better Academically, LEAP Study Reports

College students increase their likelihood to excel by participating in certain programs at their schools, according to a new report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

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Librarian shot and killed on San Antonio campus

SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A librarian at Northeast Lakeview College was shot and killed Monday by a fellow employee, college president Eric Reno said. Reno identified the man who was killed in the library as Devin Zimmerman, 37. He said the gunman, a 62-year-old adjunct librarian, sat down after the shooting and waited to be […]

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Penn State Trading Cards Highlight Researchers

Want to trade a glaciologist Richard Alley card for entomologist James Tumlinson?

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Illinois Professor Wins Poetry Prize

Paul Martinez Pompa, a faculty member in the English department at Triton College in River Grove, Ill., is the 2008 recipient of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize given by Letras Latinas, the literary program of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), university officials announced.

Building a Black Male Learning Community

A center at the University of West Georgia focused on Black male students prepares them for college success and beyond.

Tuskegee University Leader in Producing Black Vets

Ask any African-American veterinarian — anywhere in the country — where they attended veterinary school.

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New Report: Black Colleges Crucial in Grooming New Scientists, Engineers

Historically Black colleges and universities play a vital role in producing future scientists and engineers, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation.

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