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HONOLULU, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Rose Tseng, Ph.D. scholar, leader and community builder, steps down as chancellor of University of Hawaii at Hilo June 30. Chancellor for 12 years, she leaves a legacy of academic strength, expanded resources, and deep ties with the community it serves. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100521/LA09367) Donald Straney, Ph.D. of California State Polytechnic, Pomona will succeed Tseng. Few beyond Hawaii's shores realize the extent of UH Hilo's...
Leading Advocate Establishes Center To Help Transform Education In America WASHINGTON , April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Building on a distinguished 110-year history of connecting students to college success and opportunity, the College Board today announced the creation of the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center. Designed to help transform education in America and increase the number of students who earn a college degree, the Center will make critical connections between policy,...
CLEVELAND, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Steve Kerr is a business man, academic, author, advisor, and father to a six-year-old. He's also a long-time friend of Jack Welch and is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Jack Welch Management Institute (JWMI) at Chancellor University in Cleveland, Ohio. Before getting re-connected to Jack Welch through JWMI, Dr. Kerr was formerly the Chief Learning Officer at GE where he and Welch first collaborated. More recently, he is a senior advisor...
CLEVELAND, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandra Morgan, Chancellor University Trustee, has awarded two $5,000 scholarships to marketing students, Craig Harvieux, 46, and Elizabeth A. Disanto, 44. The scholarship is named after Ms. Morgan's grandfather, Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr., born in 1877, who was an American inventor and innovator in the early to mid-1900s. Mr. Morgan invented and patented a traffic signal system that is the basis for current traffic lights...
RCK Corp. and Open Text Work for and with OCTO and DCPS to Deliver First Major District Agency Web Site Upgrade WATERLOO, ON, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Complementing the announcement by Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee of the District of Columbia Public Schools' (DCPS) new Teaching and Learning Framework, RCK Corp. and Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), working for and with OCTO and DCPS, successfully completed the District's first agency Web site, www.dcps.dc.gov, to undergo...
YOKNEAM, Israel and PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 15, 2009, the Honorable William B. Chandler III, Chancellor for the State of Delaware, granted Galil Medical Ltd.'s motion for an expedited trial in Galil's recently-filed lawsuit against Endocare, Inc., arising out of Endocare's alleged breach of the Galil/Endocare Merger Agreement. The Chancellor granted Galil's motion after oral argument, and ordered that a two-day trial would be held on July 9 and 10 in Chancery...
Former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin John D. Wiley and serial entrepreneur Eric Apfelbach join the StudyBlue Board of Directors. MADISON, Wis., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- StudyBlue, Inc. is proud to announce the addition of two new members of the Board of Directors. Joining current Board members Charles S. Wallman, a Securities Analyst and primary investor in StudyBlue, and CEO Becky Splitt are former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin John D. Wiley and high tech...
Online University Aims to Improve Student Enrollment by Instantly Verifying Interested Students VIENNA, Va., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- During these tough economic times, online universities are seeing a rise in demand from unemployed workers. According to a recent report by the Sloan Consortium, the growth rate for enrollments in these institutions is 12.9 percent, far outpacing the 1.2 percent projected growth rate for the overall higher education student population. Sorting through the...
Investors will keep an eye on pending home sales and construction spending Wednesday, while keeping their ears to the ground concerning news from London. World leaders gather in Britain for a Group of 20 summit, which may make up in drama what it lacks in results. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he would walk out of the proceedings if talks do not center on concrete regulatory results. In particular, Sarkozy has been pushing for an international regulatory body, a notion rebuffed...
CLEVELAND, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- 160 year-old Chancellor University is opening its national Online Enrollment Center in Lynchburg, Virginia to support its rapidly expanding online programs. Founded in 1848, Chancellor University was one of the first business colleges in the U.S. and has now adapted to the fast-paced demanding needs of today's global educational marketplace by focusing its efforts through online education. Chancellor is currently offering degrees online at the Associates,...
