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Public colleges without deep pockets can face challenges as they seek to ramp up online course offerings. For one thing, it’s not easy to quickly recruit the teaching assistants or “coaches” needed to help faculty members manage larger classes and keep students on track.
Enter Instructional Connections, a relatively new venture attempting to tap into this market. Launched in 2010, the nonprofit firm grew out of a for-profit company that offers online services to...
NEW YORK -- Travel, don't work for money, make the most of a bad job.
These are some of the life recommendations older Americans have for young Americans. What's the most important piece of advice? Get excited, because life goes by fast.
This month, college graduates will don their sheepskins and accept their diplomas in something of an anxious state.
Unemployment is rampant, with younger workers bearing the brunt of the jobless burden.
CNN reported that...
Even as the growth of student debt stirs debate on everything from whether the government should move to ease borrowers' burden to the ability to discharge obligations through bankruptcy, some banks are jockeying for position to lend to students.
The latest salvo in the fast-moving field: RBS Citizens Financial Group, the U.S. banking subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, this week said it would expand its student-lending business beyond the 12 states where it has bank...
BLOOMINGTON, Minn., May 17, 2012 -- Rasmussen College will join the nation in recognizing the service and sacrifice of U.S. law enforcement officers during National Police Week, May 13-19, 2012. Every year, an average of 164 police officers make the ultimate sacrifice for our safety. On May 15, Peace Officers Memorial Day, the names of the 163 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2011 were added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington D.C. To...
Joshua Mandelman made $454,000 in a single year as a student-loan debt collector -- more than twice the pay of the U.S. secretary of education.
His boss, Richard Boyle, chief executive officer of Educational Credit Management Corp., received $1.1 million in 2010, including commuting expenses from his ranch in New Mexico. Five other managers each took home more than $400,000.
ECMC, a Minnesota nonprofit group, owes its success to an 18-year-old agreement with the U.S. government...
