SloanSemester.org is a website dedicated to helping college students and those hoping to attend college online find the information they need to make their dreams of a quality higher education a reality. Feel free to browse our website for detailed information about online education, online degrees and online diploma options; or to view any one of dozens of articles or videos about online learning.
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A unique event in higher education occurred in response to Hurricane Katrina (and later Rita), which struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005. Using online learning, colleges and universities from across the country responded in record numbers to help students and institutions impacted by the storms. Dubbed "Sloan Semester" the initiative provided free online courses to students impacted by the storm.
A look back at the Sloan Semester Initiative...
The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) provides a retrospective on the Sloan Semester Initiative: information about how it was established, how it worked, who participated, and the students who were served. The site includes links to an archived version of the Sloan Semester Catalog, a case study of the project, data about participants and lessons learned.
The Sloan Consortium hopes the site will serve as both an opportunity to look back...and to be thinking ahead to the next time circumstances demand our community to respond. We know, from this experience, they will again.
The Sloan Semester was a vibrant and vitally important undertaking that required the immediate attention of a group of dedicated educators. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, through its sponsorship of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), financed this worthwhile initiative that helped Hurricane Katrina—and Rita—affected higher education students continue with their education in an online modality, as their institutions were forced to temporarily close down for the Fall 2005 semester. A chain of educated decisions, along with the appropriate infrastructure and team of professionals, successfully moved this initiative forward in a quick and unprecedented time frame, "on the fly."
Learn more about the Sloan Semester initiative by visiting www.sloan-c.org.
Brief Overview of the Sloan Semester Initiative...
Sloan-C member institutions created a fully
functional "virtual" institution in 21 days.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported the
initiative with a $1.1 million dollar grant.
Sloan Semester made more than 1,350 courses
from over 150 institutions in 38 states available
to over 1,750 students at the undergraduate and
graduate levels.
It’s now Dr. Maddon
Rays manager Joe Maddon was all smiles Thursday after receiving his honorary doctor of letters degree from Lafayette College. About 200 people attended the public on-campus ceremony in Easton, Pa., as Maddon spoke about his experiences at Lafayette – where he attended and played football and baseball before going into pro baseball – and some about his methods as a manager. He did wear his…
Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. It’s not part of a sinister stratagem in the “gay agenda.” Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness. Queer elementary classrooms are those where parents and educators care enough about their children to trust the human capacity for understanding and their educative abilities to foster insight into the human condition. Those who teach queerly refuse to participate in the great sexual sorting machine called schooling where diminutive GI Joes and Barbies become star quarterbacks and prom queens, while the Linuses and Tinky Winkies become wallflowers or human doormats. Queeering education means bracketing our simplest classroom activities in which we routinely equate sexual identities with sexual acts, privilege the heterosexual condition, and presume sexual destinies. Queer teachers are those who develop curriculum and pedagogy that afford every child dignity rooted in self-worth and esteem for others. In short, queering education happens when we look at schooling upside down and view childhood from the inside out. This groundbreaking volume demands we explore taken-for-granted assumptions about diversity, identities, childhood, and prejudice. Queering Elementary Education
New dean named at Collin College
Submitted photo / Nick Young, Collin College – Abe Johnson will take over the position of dean of academic affairs of Health Sciences and Emergency Services starting this fall.
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts Subjects: Universities and colleges Education, Higher Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISCOUKSE VII. LIBERAL KNOWLEDGE VIEWED IN RELATION TO RELIGION. We shall be brought, gentlemen, to-day, to the termination of the investigation, which I commenced three Discourses back, and which, I was well aware, from its length, if for no other reason, would make demands upon the patience even of indulgent hearers. First I employed myself in establishing the principle, that Knowledge is its own reward; and I showed that, when considered in this light, it is called Liberal Knowledge, and is the scope of Academical Institutions. Next, I examined what is meant by Knowledge, when it is said to be pursued for its own sake; and I showed, that in order satisfactorily to fulfil this idea, Philosophy must be its form; or, in other words, that its matter must not be admitted into the mind passively, as so much acquirement, but must be mastered and appropriated as a system consisting of parts, related one to the other, and interpretative of one another, in the unity of a whole. Further, I showed that such a philosophical contemplation of the field of knowledge as a whole, leading, as it did, to an understanding of its separate departments, and an appreciation of them respectively, might in consequence be rightly called an illumination; also, it was rightly called an enlargement of mind, because it was a distinct location of things one with another, as if in space; while it was moreover its proper cultivation and its best condition, both because it secured to the intellect the sight of things a… The Scope and Nature of University Education
Missouri Valley College fall enrollment sets all-time record | Fall Convocation set for 10 a.m. on Sept. 2
Missouri Valley College has the largest enrollment in the college’s history with 1,476 students attending classes this fall, according to Marsha Lashley, MVC registrar.
University of Houston, partners awarded $4.2 million DOE grant for magnet energy storage research
( University of Houston ) The University of Houston and three other institutions have received a $4.2 million grant from the US Department of Energy to develop a superconducting magnet energy storage system device that could revolutionize the nation’s electrical power grid.
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Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell, who, with her husband, Lloyd Frizzell, and their four sons, set out on April 14th, of that year, from their unnamed home, not far from Ewington, Effingham County, Illinois, on the upper reaches of the Little Wabash River, on an overland journey to California. The journal records her observations and experiences from the Little Wabash, across Illinois and Missouri, to St. Louis and St. Joseph, and over the St. Joseph and Oregon Trails to the Pacific Springs, in Fremont County, Wyoming. Here, at the continental divide and at the halfway point of her journey, the journal ends, on June 26th, or the seventy-fourth day out. It was nearly seven months later, in her snowbound quarters of the Sierra Nevadas, that she busied herself with its composition from notes she had kept by the way, enlivened by her memory.
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