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Excel Award: Mark Roberts honored
— When Mark Roberts was a 20-year-old college student, he was in the hospital and thought he was going to die. That near death experience made him determined to make a difference with his life, and it produced a teacher that won the Excel Award. WHAS11′s Gary Roedemeier has more on this story. Click on [...]
Cal State University closes admission for spring 2013
LONG BEACH — In an effort to reduce enrollment, the Cal State University system will close spring admission for most of its 23 campuses next year, affecting about 16,000 prospective students, officials announced Monday. The CSU also is planning to put prospective students on a waiting list for the 2013-2014 school year pending the outcome [...]
Kathleen Fear awarded 2011 Zipf Fellowship
SI Ph.D. candidate Kathleen Fear has been selected to receive the highly competitive A. R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management for 2011 awarded by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Kathleen holds a bachelors in physics from Yale University and a masters in information, with a specialization in the preservation of information, from the [...]
Misplaced Into Remedial Courses?
One of the questions that sometimes comes up when it comes to eLearning is academic preparedness. Its sometimes suggested that some schools, often but not exclusively for profits, do not take sufficient care into whether their incoming students are where they need to be when it comes to their writing and mathematics skills. The concern [...]