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Professors at online colleges can be an anonymous, itinerant bunch, moonlighting as adjuncts from far-flung locales and often struggling to cobble together a teaching load that can pay the bills.
Breaking this mold are 98 newly minted online faculty members at Grand Canyon University. The for-profit Christian university hired them as full-time employees, and they get standard benefits packages that are not available to part-timers. The group works weekdays from noon to 8 p.m.,...
This spring, wild glasses frames are a popular look for creative executives with a gift for flamboyance. Oh, and granting national television journalists unrestricted access to your business dealings and conference calls taken via beach chairs at your seaside home headquarters is another way to show your dynamism, too.
These were just two sideline tips I took away from last night's PBS FRONTLINE documentary on for-profit education, called "College Inc." The hour-long show...
The climate for career training-oriented schools within certain higher education circles could be changing faster than Al Gore can say "polar ice caps".
Something that feels like respect might be quietly beginning to build in certain segments of the four-year school realm, though it's too early to label it such. (Far be it from me to put a name to it so early on. Someone who needed five years to complete a pretty standard communications degree -- with a minor in political...
On Tuesday, the Obama administration introduced Howard A. Schmidt as its selection for the government's Cybersecurity Coordinator position. As government agencies are prone to do, the administration made its new hire's biographical information available to the press, most of whom probably glanced over it with the usual monotony applied to hand outs.
This is a common occurrence on Capitol Hill, with so many government bodies and committees, lobby and special interest groups, and...
Control over what articles get posted to this site was handed over to me last week. Our website manager, Beth Neely, has moved on to another position within our organization and the keys were passed to me and our assistant editor, Jenni Valentino.
Beth did a tremendous job with this site since its launch three years ago. She helped advance it from its original state – nothing more than a stock watch and random news feed, usually not pertaining much to actual career college news –...
