Engineering Degree Online | Community College Student Leaders Drop POA

Posted by bposton on November 11th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I just heard that the student trustees of the Orange Coast Community College in Costa Mesa, CA voted the other day to drop the Pledge of Allegiance from their meetings.

The vote came after an intense meeting during which one POA supporter called the leaders anti-American radicals.

3 of the 5 trustee board members voted for the pledge to be dropped from their meetings.

One of those voting for dropping the pledge argued that the pledge inspires nationalism, violates the separation between church and state with the phrase “under God,” and is irrelevant to the business of student government.

He used a evidence for his claim a 2002 San Francisco federal appeals court ruling that the pledge is unconstitutional when recited in public schools.

Sorry my friend, but that ruling was dismissed by the Supreme Court.

There were several students attending the meeting to support keeping the pledge. One of them waved an American flag and accused the board of “radical views and anti-Americanism.”

I guess that’s just another topic that doesn’t come up in my online classes :-)

Ben

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engineering degree online : Regis University makes the Top Ten

Posted by bposton on October 30th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

If you haven’t read the OCtober 16 issue of US News & World Report, you’re missing out, because
this is the annual issue of college rankings.

What’s really important to know is that they highlighted online learning in this year’s annual ranking
and one of the top ten largestest graduate programs on their list comes from Regis University.

They had three of their online programs make the top ten, which was measured by total enrollment number and other factors such as class size and technical support.

Out of 410 institutions across the U.S., Regis is the only Colorado-based university to be ranked.

The programs that were ranked where nursing, which ranked third, business, ranking seventh and education, which ranked eighth.

Regis is a Jesuit University and Allan Service, their provost, had this to say about the ranking:

“Our high quality and extremely successful programs in online learning are one of the latest applications of the tradition of innovation in Jesuit education. Our online degree programs nicely complement the other great work we are doing with 18 to 22-year old students in our classroom-based liberal arts and pre-professional programs. We’re very gratified by this recognition of Regis University’s continuing accomplishments. We will continue to seek new and innovating ways to server the learners and leaders of tomorrow.”

Ben

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It’s a challenge - returning to school

Posted by bposton on October 15th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I saw an interested little snippet in USA Today.

It was a survey of adults who wanted to return to school and what their biggest challenge was.

Some the biggest challenges (according to this study) came down to these:

Number 5 - Attending classes regularly

Number 4 - Making a committment for how long it will take

Number 3 - Providing for a family while in school

Number 2 - Finding the money to pay for school

And Numero Uno on the list - managing other committments as well as attending school.
According to the study, 73% of adults wanting to return to school had this problem.

To me, these all sorta boil down to time and money. Mainly time.

So how do you overcome these roadblocks to getting a better education?

Well, that’s what this blog is about, and hopefully as I learn more about all the possiblities, I can impart some of this newfound wisdom to you.

Stay tuned,

Ben

 

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