Unemployment for College Grads Less than Half the National Average and Improving
Here’s an interesting excerpt from a recent news report by Palash R. Ghosh of the International Business Times writing about the latest national unemployment statistics compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): …if one examines the August BLS jobs report closely, one finds something interesting — the unemployment rate for college graduates (that is, those […]
UMass Amherst’s Online Bachelor of Business Administration Scores High Marks in Recent Ranking
Recently, an organization called The Best Colleges completed its independent analysis and ranking of the best accredited online bachelor degree programs in business and business administration for 2011-2012. If you are unfamiliar with The Best Colleges, here’s part of how they describe what they do: The Best Colleges reviews publicly available data and then produces independent […]
UMass Lowell Honored for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning by Sloan-C
This September, the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, announced its 2011 Awards for Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning. Among the recipients distinguished by this Sloan-C recognition was the University of Massachusetts Lowell which was honored with the Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality […]
Magic College Dust?
[The following is a guest post expressing the opinion of from Burck Smith, the founder of Straighterline, and one of the leading voices in favor of disruptive change in higher education including new and radically different delivery and cost models. He will be presenting here at UMassOnline on October 12th, 2011, as part of our […]
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