- Evaluating e-degrees
HEADNOTE How should HR professionals regard job candidates with online degrees? There's considerable debate over whether they're as qualified as those who lug briefcases full of books across a real campus. In many ways, Alex Zai is your typical online learner. As vice president of store operations and international development ......
- Learning, living and working experiences of
international postgraduate students at a Scottish
University.
International students have, for many years, sought higher education in the United Kingdom (UK) and other major English-speaking destinations (MESDs). Recently, a combination of government initiatives, development of the higher education sector and the changes in funding of higher education in the UK have encouraged universities to give greater ......
- Creating a land of opportunity: Northeast Ohiouniversities say student involvement in business and the community manyhelp stem the tide of young people leaving theregion.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Students attending colleges and universities across Northeast Ohio are aware of the so-called brain drain problem, a widely reported trend of young, educated people leaving the region. So how do you convince students to start and develop their careers or businesses here when they see so many others ......
- 2007 Product of the Year judges.
Mike Borel, Partner, The Context Network Walnut Creek, CA Borel is a Partner in The Context Network--a consulting firm which provides business management and strategy consulting services to the agriculture, biotechnology and food companies and government agencies. Major areas of expertise include strategy, merger and acquisition support, valuation of new ......
- Beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism: rethinkinganti-racist pedagogy in the university classroom.
Nearly forty years after student-led movements began to challenge the racism and Eurocentrism of U.S. universities and many campus struggles later, it has become fairly commonplace, though by no means ubiquitous, for universities and colleges to offer majors or minors in fields such as Ethnic Studies. However, the increased visibility ......
- JRI, JF, and the internet: coauthors, new authors, and
empirical research.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Internet has changed the work of academic researchers and addresses the question of how expanded Internet usage has affected Journal of Risk and Insurance (JRI) and Journal of Finance (JF) articles, including the shift to empirical research, joint authorship, and new authorship. Internet ......
- Businesses benefit from a vibrant 'collegetown'.
The biggest "college town" in New Hampshire is not Durham, Plymouth, Keene or Hanover, says Kathy Cook, business education coordinator for the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. While each of those communities is home to a single dominant college or university, the greater Manchester area has more than 15,000 full- ......