Later this week, Augustana College opens its door to the entire Rock Island community and beyond for their annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  This festive event is scheduled for Saturday, January 19th, 2013 at 6PM in Centennial Hall and will feature motivational speakers, numerous local choral groups, and plenty of dancing for [...]

Bastyr University holds an annual event for faculty and students on the first day back from winter break that is certainly not for the faint at heart.  This past Monday on January 7th, 2013, about 23 people and one brave dog gathered for a brisk jog in the afternoon’s seasonably mild fifty degree temperatures to [...]

The Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) finally opened its doors last week to a 330,000 square-foot complex that formerly served as the General Tire plant off of U.S. Highway 77 in Waco, Texas.  The new facility will serve as a high technology and science park for the faculty and students at Baylor along with [...]

Coursera has quickly built a reputation as one of the most exciting educational initiatives of the year, and it is now set to take another big step in providing its students with a heads start in their professional lives; it will now be offering a Career Services program that will allow students that perform well [...]

The Hearst Foundation has given a $75,000 grant to Hartwick College so that students in need of financial aid will have a higher chance of receiving it. This funding comes at a time when tuition costs are on the rise and the job market is fiercely competitive; this means that grants have never been in [...]

Vivian Maier was a street photographer that was unknown for her amazing talents until after she passed away. The reason for her prior anonymity is the fact that during the 1950′s and the 1960′s when she was in the process of creating her best work, she was working as a nanny and she kept her [...]

Students from the accounting department of John Carroll University made the institution very proud recently when they took second place at the 2012 Deloitte FanTAXtic Regional Competition. The team did not only walk away with second place; they also received the honorable mention award for the region. Participating in the Competition About 70 different schools [...]

The International Graduate Forum has just ranked the MBA program from Jacksonville University among the 100 top accredited programs within the country; something that the establishment couldn’t be more proud of. In order to rank the schools, the forum had to go through a thorough screening process during which the reputation and effectiveness of the [...]

An exciting new development is taking place at community colleges such as Bunker Hill and MassBay; edX will be joining up with these institutions to allow students the chance to enroll for MIT and Harvard courses on campus instead of simply through the medium of the net. This innovative development will allow instructors the chance [...]

The five pre K-12 recipient schools to win the “Educator for a day” grants worth $5,000 have been announced by the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership of Walden University and the recipients are already making plans concerning how the funds will be used. While some of the funds will be used to [...]