DAYTON -- Dayton-area college officials are reaching out to China as they prepare students to live and work in a global society. Daniel J. Curran, University of Dayton president, returned this month from a two-week trip to China, where he and a group of alumni visited some of the seven universities with which UD has relationships.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Students with disabilities such as blindness and dyslexia at hundreds of colleges and universities in three states now have quicker and easier access to alternative college textbooks as the result of agreements for those states to fund access to the alternative textbooks for colleges and universities. Separate statewide agreements for colleges and universities in Georgia and Ohio, as well as 112 community colleges in the California system, have been finalized to fund memberships in the AccessText Network, a national online database of alternative college materials. The AccessText Network makes it quicker and easier for students with disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia, or physical impairments that prevent the use of traditional hardcopy textbooks...
We're still sort of doing the real basic work" on creating what is to be known as the African American Male Leadership Center, said [John Garland]. "There's not a whole lot to report [yet]. When the governor announced the effort, it was noted that only about 4 percent of the approximately 600,000 students in Ohio's public and private institutions of higher education are African-American men. While there are more Black men in colleges and universities in Ohio than there are in state prisons (though not by much), just raising the number of African-American men in colleges and, universities to the same percentage as the number of African-American men in the state's population would add an additional 12,000 Black men into the ranks of the college trained. "Quite frankly, this is something...
OCLC, originally the Ohio College Library Center, was created in 1967 by the presidents of Ohio colleges and universities. They saw that by creating a computerized system they could eliminate redundant tasks so libraries could share resources and reduce costs. In 1981, the legal name of OCLC was changed to Online Computer Library Center. OCLC is a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit organization. People in the taxpaying, for-profit world occasionally say that its not-for-profit status gives OCLC an advantage. OCLC's most valuable asset is WorldCat, a global catalog of library content and collections available free to the public through www.worldcat.org, Google, Yahoo!, and libraries. WorldCat leads a searcher to the nearest library that holds the desired item. If users do not want to go to a libra...
We're still sort of doing the real basic work" on creating what is to be known as the African American Male Leadership Center, said [John Garland]. "There's not a whole lot to report [yet]. When the governor announced the effort, it was noted that only about 4 percent of the approximately 600,000 students in Ohio's public and private institutions of higher education are African-American men. While there are more Black men in colleges and universities in Ohio than there are in state prisons (though not by much), just raising the number of African-American men in colleges and universities to the same percentage as the number of African-American men in the state's population would add an additional 12,000 Black men into the ranks of the college trained. "Quite frankly, this is something ...
DAYTON -- Applications for freshman admission this fall to four- year colleges and universities in Southwest Ohio are reaching new heights, raising the potential for wait lists and high rejection rates. Seven local institutions are seeing double-digit increases in college applications compared with the same time last year, outpacing the national average increase of 6 percent.
The Thundering Word, Marshall University's speech and debate team, finished in third place last month in the Holiday Frolic Tournament at Ohio State University. Danny Ray, Director of Forensics at Marshall, said 26 colleges and universities participated, making the tournament one of the largest in the nation. In addition to host Ohio State, Marshall and defending nation champion Western Kentucky, some of the schools participating included Ohio University, Cincinnati, Wayne State, Carson-Newman, Hillsdale, Creighton, Otterbein, West Florida, St. Anselm, Truman State, Nebraska-Lincoln and Purdue.
A program aimed at drawing military veterans to Ohio by offering them in-state college tuition has brought more than 1,300 students and $21 million in federal aid in its first year. There are more than 10,000 veterans attending state colleges and universities in Ohio. An additional 1,340 veterans relocated here in the last year to participate in the GI Promise program, according to the Ohio Board of Regents. The program is part of the federal Post- 9/11 GI Bill approved in 2009 that funds the college education of former soldiers.
Ohio's public colleges and universities have seen a 20 percent jump in students graduating with degrees in science, math and technology-related fields from 2006-2010. Better job opportunities, higher pay and a coordinated effort by educators and lawmakers across the state and the nation focused on graduating students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs have all contributed to the increase.
CLEVELAND, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cleveland Cord Blood Center (CCBC) has just received notice from the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program that it has been designated in a 3-year $2.1 million award to collaborate with Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation on the project, "Development of a Quantitative Analysis System for Stem Cells. The Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program accelerates the development and growth of Ohio's key technology sectors, including Biomedical. The Program supports major capital acquisitions and improvements at Ohio's colleges, universities, and nonprofit research institutions, which in turn will support near-term commercialization objectives of for-profit Ohio companies, develops Ohio's next entrepreneurs, and connects...
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