Considering a Career in Nursing?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services predicts the U.S. will have a shortage of more than 800,000 registered nurses by the year 2020. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor supports this finding, reporting that there will be an approximately 25 percent increase in jobs through 2016.This plus the fact that Baby Boomers […]
Starting College Early?
I recently received this picture from a colleague on the Boston campus and couldn’t resist sharing. Pictured here with two month old granddaughter Makayla is Joanne Spitz, instructor for Economics 101 Online at UMass Boston. We know flexibility is one of the reasons why students choose to study online. As you can see from this picture, […]
New UMass Study Shows Admissions Office Use of Social Media Outpaces Corporate America
Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, as well Chancellor Professor of Marketing, continues to lead the nation’s academic research of corporate and educational social media trends, adoption rates and uses across the country. We have featured her work here previously, and now have the honor […]
UMassOnline Blog To Be Spotlight of May 7th Marketing Conference
With our search engine consultants Nowspeed, who be represented by Creative Director Bob Cargill, I will be participating as a co-presenter at a May 7th session during the 2009 Annual Conference of the New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) to be held at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. The topic, “What’s Blogging Have to Do with Direct […]
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