Thursday, September 10, 2015
Belhaven University
Belhaven maintains satellite campuses for graduate and undergraduate studies in Atlanta, Georgia, Houston, Texas, Memphis, Tennessee and Orlando, Florida, and also conducts online programs.
Belhaven teaches from a "Christian Worldview Curriculum" and defines its mission as preparing "students academically and spiritually to serve Jesus Christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Carrington College (US)
Carrington College offers career training in medical, dental, veterinary, and criminal justice fields. The company is a division of DeVry Education Group.[2]
The school's colors are blue and gold and the Carrington College mascots are two animated birds named Blue and Goldie
The institution was originally founded in 1967 in Sacramento, California, as the Northwest College of Medical Assistants and Dental Assistants. The college was established to meet the education needs of the local healthcare community.
In 1969, the College was purchased and underwent its first name change, to "Western College of Allied Health Careers – A Bryman School." The Education Corporation of America ("EdCOA, Inc.") purchased the college in 1983 and changed its name to Western Career College (WCC). In 1986, WCC opened a second campus in the Bayfair Center in San Leandro, California. The third campus opened in 1997 in Pleasant Hill, California.[5]
WCC earned regional accreditation by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in June 2001.
In December 2003, U.S. Education Corporation, a California-based company, acquired Western Career College. The U.S. Education Corporation also acquired Apollo College, which was founded by Margaret M Carlson in 1975 in Phoenix, Arizona to prepare graduates for careers in skilled professions. The U.S. Education Corporation was led by president and chief executive officer George Montgomery from 2002 to 2011. The college expanded in August 2005 by incorporating the operations and programs of Silicon Valley College (SVC).
In September 2008, U.S. Education Corporation became a division of DeVry Inc. In 2010, Western Career College changed its name to Carrington College California and Apollo College changed its name to Carrington College.
President Montgomery retired at the end of 2011 and was succeeded as president of the group by Robert Paul, DeVry University's vice president for metro operations. In 2012, under Paul's leadership, the institution's mascots, Blue and Goldie, were developed. In 2014, Paul succeeded David Pauldine as president of DeVry University and was succeeded as president of Carrington College Group by Jeff Akens. Previously, Akens had served as president of Carrington College California from 2007 to 2014 and had been with the institution since 1993.
In 2014, Carrington College California received approval under the ACCJC/WASC accreditation to add the Carrington College campuses to its existing network, resulting in one consolidated institution called Carrington College.
Western Governors University (WGU)
History
Western Governors University Administration Building in Salt Lake City, Utah
WGU was officially founded in 1997 in the United States by the governors of 19 U.S. states. It was first proposed by then-governor of Utah Mike Leavitt at the annual meeting of the Western Governors Association in June 1995. It was formally proposed the following November and officially founded in June 1996, with each signing state governor committing $100,000 toward the launch of the new competency-based university. While the seed money was provided from government sources, the school was to be established as a self-supporting private, nonprofit institution. In January 1997, 13 governors were on hand to sign the articles of incorporation formally beginning the new university.
In 2001, the United States Department of Education awarded $10 million to found the Teachers College, and the first programs were offered in Information Technology. In 2003, the university became the first school to be accredited in four different regions by the Interregional Accrediting Committee. In 2006, the fourth college, the College of Health Professions, was founded, and the school's Teachers College became the first online teacher-preparation program to receive NCATE accreditation. In 2010, the first state-established offshoot WGU Indiana, was founded by Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, and the school reached 20,000 students for the first time. In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided $4.5 million for WGU Indiana and the creation of WGU Texas and WGU Washington.
On January 8, 2013, Bill Haslam, governor of Tennessee, announced the creation of the state-affiliated WGU Tennessee. On January 28, 2013, Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri, in his annual State of the State address, announced the founding of WGU Missouri, creating the fifth state-affiliated campus. And on June 16, 2015, Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada launched WGU Nevada, the sixth state-based WGU. The state-affiliated offshoots of WGU share the same academic model, faculty, services, accreditation, tuition, and curricula as WGU and were established to give official state endorsement and increased name recognition to WGU in those states; however, WGU has students and graduates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, parts of Canada, and on U.S. military bases worldwide.
As of July 2015, the university had grown to nearly 60,000 currently enrolled students and more than 50,000 graduates.
University of Texas at Arlington
The university operates the Fort Worth Education Center in downtown Fort Worth and the UTA Research Institute in River Bend Par in eastern Fort Worth.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Establishment (1895–1916)
1.2 Texas A&M University System (1917–1965)
1.3 University of Texas System (1965–present)
2 Campus
2.1 Surroundings
2.2 Architecture
3 Academic profile
3.1 Colleges and schools
3.2 The Library
3.3 Research and facility
4 Student life
4.1 Student profile
4.2 Residential life
4.3 Traditions
4.4 Greek life
4.5 UTA Cheer
5 Athletics
5.1 Varsity sports
5.2 Sports rivalries
6 Notable people
6.1 University leaders
6.2 Students
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
Concordia University
Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the two universities in Montreal where English is the primary language of instruction. As of the 2011-2012 academic year, there were 45,954 students enrolled at Concordia, making the university among the largest in Canada by enrollment. The university has two campuses, set approximately seven km apart: Sir George Williams Campus in the downtown core of Montreal, in an area known as Quartier Concordia and Loyola Campus in the residential district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. With four faculties, a school of graduate studies and numerous colleges, centres and institutes, Concordia offers over 300 undergraduate and 100 graduate programs and courses.
The university was ranked 11th among Canada's comprehensive universities in the Maclean's 24th annual rankings.[9] Internationally, Concordia was ranked 461-470th overall in the 2014 QS World University Rankings and is also included in Times Higher Education's list of the top 100 universities worldwide under 50 years old.[10] Nationally, the 2012 Higher Education Strategy Associates' University Rankings placed Concordia 9th in the field of social science and 20th in science and engineering. The university's John Molson School of Business is consistently ranked within the top ten Canadian business schools, and within the top 100 worldwide. Furthermore, Concordia was ranked 7th among Canadian and 229th among world universities in the International Professional Classification of Higher Education Institutions, a worldwide ranking compiled by the École des Mines de Paris that uses as its sole criterion the number of graduates occupying the rank of Chief Executive Officer at Fortune 500 companies.
Concordia is a non-sectarian and coeducational institution, with over 175,000 living alumni worldwide. The University is a member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the International Association of Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate as well as the Canadian Bureau for International Education and the Canadian University Press. The university's varsity teams, known as the Stingers, compete in the Quebec Student Sport Federation of Canadian Interuniversity Sport.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Lawsuit Challenges California Schools on Phys Ed Commitment
In a lawsuit filed last October and advancing now, 37 California school districts are being challenged to prove that their students are getting adequate amounts of physical fitness during the school day.
The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on behalf of Cal200, an organization for elementary school physical fitness headed by parent Marc Babin, claimed that the districts were “routinely ignoring the law,” specifically pointing out Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
“School districts have been routinely ignoring the law,” Driscoll said. And the Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest, “has been a particular offender. They give lip service to the idea that P.E. is important. That just plain doesn’t work. What that produces is kids who don’t get enough exercise.”
Physical education teachers in the districts under fire are being asked to show lesson plans that prove they are meeting state guidelines. The lesson plans will offer schedules pertaining to instruction, activities and classes. The records will then be compared to information submitted by education officials stating the number of hours in which students have completed physical education classes.
According to state law,students from kindergarten through sixth grade are required 200 minutes of physical education for every 10 days of class time, less than half an hour a day. This time is in addition to lunch and recess times.
Court documents suggest that for at least LAUSD, the “allegations have already been rectified,” writes Sara Hayden for The Los Angeles Times.
Chad Fenwick, district advisor for elementary physical education for LA Unified, said the program has seen improvement since he came on board in 2004.
“We’re an extremely large district, the second largest in the nation. To have everything perfect all at once, it takes time. We did have problems, but we’ve made huge gains,” Fenwick said. “It’s not an easy task. We’ve been taking a systematic approach and it’s working.”
When Fenwick started, aides, offering “glorified recess”, which did not train students about proper fitness at all, were teaching some of the PE classes. Today, the district puts aside $1.7 million of its funding to send instructors to train teachers. Schools also post their PE activities online in order to ensure they are held more accountable.
“Schools just have many competing priorities,” Mariah Lafleur, one of the authors of the study, said. “But we think allotting the time for P.E. will, as a side benefit, improve students’ attention spans and behavior so they’re able to be well-balanced kids.”
Lafleur also mentioned that due to safety concerns, many children in the area do not get the opportunity to play outside at home.
“It might be the only chance they have to be active in their day,” Lafleur said.
LAUSD is making an effort to bring down childhood obesity rates in its district. In 2005, 42.6% of students were obese. That number dropped to 41.6% by 2010, due to an increase in healthy lunch choices and elimination of sodas and flavored milk.
Meanwhile in other states, such as South Dakota, the standards for PE classes are on the rise. The state is in the process of revising the physical education standards, asking that students in each grade level master specific tasks, such as dribbling a basketball.
