Educational institutions are constantly emphasizing to students the importance of foreign educational travel. This experience can take many forms. There are full semester programs, summer programs of five to six weeks, and shorter duration programs of two to three weeks. This paper reviews the costs and benefits of the shorter programs of two to three weeks. The program under study involves MBA students, many of whom are employed full time. These individuals would likely not be available for a longer education travel program due to work commitments. The program discussed in this paper is offered by a private university located in western New York State. This is a successful educational experience that the university has offered seventeen times. This paper reviews student and faculty per...
The state of New Jersey has a better idea. The New Jersey Legislature just passed a number of bills aimed at combating recidivism. Included is the Education and Rehabilitation Act, which requires the state's Department of Corrections to ensure that incarcerated individuals attain a 12th grade education proficiency level. In other, words, people getting out of New Jersey state prisons will have a high school diploma or a GED to help them get jobs. The legislation also mandates review of vocational programs in prisons in order to meet the demands of required job skills and standards on the outside. Why isn't New York State doing this? The state has 60,000 people in its prisons and releases about 25,000 each year, the overwhelming majority of them lacking a high school diploma. The state h...
The Secretary announces the 2012-2013 award year deadline dates for the submission of requests and documents from postsecondary institutions for the Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Work-Study (FWS), and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) programs (collectively, the ``campus-based programs'').
SEATTLE -- Bringing a space shuttle to Seattle's Museum of Flight would be the keystone for educational displays and programs that include historic aircraft, research archives and hands-on flight simulators, the museum's administrators say. These are important artifacts," Mike Hallman, vice chairman of the museum's board of trustees, said Thursday of the retiring orbiters that NASA is preparing to assign for permanent display at sites across the country. "They're the Mona Lisas of aviation.
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