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 : The newest online schools

Posted by bposton on October 31st, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

First of all - Happy Halloween!! I hope you’ll be a good little ghost tonight and get lots of candy :-)  

I’m going to take a little time today to share with you some of my research from the October US News and World Report University and College rankings. That way, you’ll get an idea of how they measured the online schools that the focused on in this issue.

In this post, I’m listing the top 20 newest schools. Each school is listed below based on year they began offering online classes. Some of these are pretty well know, such as SMU and South Carolina. Other’s…well at least I have never heard of some of them.

So here they are - drumroll please :-) …

Briar Cliff University (IA) 2006

Edison State Community College (OH) 2006

Pima County Community College District (AZ) 2006

Southern Methodist University (TX) 2006

St. Louis Community College (MO) 2006

Toccoa Falls College (GA) 2006

University of Mississippi (MS) 2006

Chatham College (PA) 2005

Cleary University (MI) 2005

Culver-Stockton College (MO) 2005

Edgecombe Community College (NC) 2005

Mohawk Valley Community College (NY) 2005

Northern Illinois University (IL) 2005

Research College of Nursing (MO) 2005

Rutgers–New Brunswick (NJ) 2005

SUNY–Plattsburgh (NY) 2005

Southern Oregon University (OR) 2005

Spartanburg Technical College (SC) 2005

St. Clair County Community College (MI) 2005

St. Edward’s University (TX) 2005

St. Vincent’s College (CT) 2005

Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (AZ) 2005

Triton College (IL) 2005

University of Mary (ND) 2005

University of South Carolina–Columbia (SC) 2005

University of Texas Health Science Center–San Antonio (TX) 2005

York Technical College (SC) 2005

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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