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Online College Courses Your Guide to Acing Online College Classes

Published on Monday, June 6th, 2011 Dania Mallette
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Online colleges and universities have changed the face of higher education in recent years. More and more students are choosing to login to their classes instead of actually showing up. However, just because this option is much more convenient doesn’t mean it’s any easier. First-time students at an online college or university will want to [...]

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online-college-death Online Colleges Are Not The Death of Traditional Colleges

Published on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Kelly
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San Francisco, CA (San Francisco, CA)- Many have feared that online colleges will lead to the death of the traditional college campus. The people who think this way have nothing to worry about. While online learning has allowed millions of students to learn in a different method, the traditional college and the college campus will [...]

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Denver Is A Prospect for Future College Expansions

Published on Saturday, October 16th, 2010 James
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For-profit colleges have been experiencing a rapidly increasing demand. Not only for traditional college settings, but online colleges have been the most popular demand among those looking to better their lives where modern technology made it as convenient as realistically possible. There are pro’s and con’s to having for-profit colleges serve our communities.  Some of [...]

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Westwood College Forced To Stop Enrolling Students

Published on Saturday, September 25th, 2010 James
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In a previous news article, we revealed how Westwood College found themselves in a lawsuit predicament. This for-profit online college that was serving Wisconsin residents lacked the appropriate accreditation from the Department of Education. With students finding themselves overloaded with student loans to get an education from a school like Westwood College, we felt this [...]

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Can This Online College Really Help African American Students Similar to HBCU’s?

Published on Saturday, September 4th, 2010 Nohel
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An article recently published in the Chronicle touched on the topic of a current project to develop “distance-education programs—with a particular focus on allowing them to compete against for-profit colleges in enrolling minority students.”  This project is called HBCUsOnline and is designed to provide an online solution for African American students that seek online education. [...]

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Students File Lawsuits Against Westwood College

Published on Monday, August 30th, 2010 James
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You’ve probably already seen the numerous warnings about picking the right colleges. While the reasons can range from not being able to afford the tuition all the way to being fooled into participating in something that won’t mean anything in the long run.  The fact still stands that students need to be careful about choosing [...]

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No More Partnership Between California Community Colleges and Kaplan University

Published on Monday, August 30th, 2010 Nohel
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California community colleges have had mixed feelings about partnering with Kaplan University.  In some cases, Kaplan provided an opportunity for community colleges to promote various services that Kaplan offers such as test prep courses, and discounts on other products.  But most recently, the California community college system has parted from the agreement with Kaplan.  The [...]

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Changes at Capella University with New President

Published on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Nohel
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Capella University is an online for-profit college that is 100% virtual offering a variety of online college courses.  They do not have a physical campus where students can go and sit in lecture.  It was established in 1991 by Dr. Harold Abel and Stephen Shank, former CEO of Tonka.  Abel and Shank wanted to create [...]

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University of Phoenix Parent, Apollo Group, on Defensive

Published on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Nohel
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In a recent article in the Chronicle, it was disclosed that many for-profit colleges are under the microscope in Congress.  In recent news, these “institutions” of higher education have been on the defensive having to explain their bold recruiting practices and ridiculously high student-loan default rates. Most recently, the nation’s largest for-profit higher-education company, the [...]

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Popular Online College Courses Revealed

Published on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 James
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Online college courses are now one of the most popular ways to earn a degree without having to get up and head to the campus. In fact, many people who are forced to work while going to college find online colleges the most convenient and realistic option for them.  There has been a lot of [...]

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