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 Rosa Morgan, 42, is an In School Suspension Supervisor at Lebanon Middle School in Lebanon, Indiana. She is the winner of the GetEducated.com free $1,000 online college scholarship. Rosa will use the grant toward an online Bachelors of Management at Indiana Wesleyan University.
At ten years old, Morgan moved to America from the Cape Verde Islands, located off the coast of Africa. School was challenging for Morgan, as she was placed in bi-lingual immersion classes. Without any prior experience speaking English, she struggled to keep up with her studies.
Morgan remembers, “I did not know many English words and I did not know many Portuguese words. I had come from an island that was colonized by the Portuguese, so the language in school was Portuguese, but we spoke Creole at home. My island was very poor, so school was not a high priority.”{{sponsor56}}
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Steven B. Feldman, age 60, has been accused of using a degree mill, Hamilton University, an online college which markets life experience degrees, to obtain counseling credentials and secure a job thereafter as a Saratoga County Family Court mental health counselor.
The diploma mill fraud charges were brought by New York State in June. Feldman, who resides in Saratoga Springs, New York, was paid more than $10,000 by the court system to evaluate indigents for psychological and mental status.{{RightSponsor46}} |
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 Heather Ellison, 36, works as a restaurant manager in Rodney, Minnesota, while earning a master of business administration (MBA) at Baker College Online. She is a winner of a GetEducated.com $1,000 distance learning scholarship award.
Ellison is a single mother working 50+ hours a week, so distance learning became the only option for her to achieve a higher education. She attended a university directly out of high school, but dropped out during her last semester.
After working in the restaurant industry since she was sixteen, Ellison now values the importance of a college degree. She explains, “This is not where I saw myself being, and this is not where my passions lie.”
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The University of Wisconsin System has launched a new online education portal called eCampus, http://ecampus.wisconsin.edu, to showcase information about online degree programs and non-degree continuing education programs offered by the 26 campuses of the UW System.
{{LeftSponsor46}}According to Wisconsin distance learning officials, only one in four adults in Wisconsin has successfully earned a four-year college degree. This rate is slightly below the national average. To boost Wisconsin’s economy, and improve employment opportunities, the UW System is beefing up access to online continuing education and degree programs.
The publicly-funded Wisconsin System hopes to increase the number of UW degrees by 30 percent. Such an increase would mean about 80,000 more college graduates in the state labor pool in the next 15 years.
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Education Trust, a non-profit research group that analyzes statistics on the cost and return of American higher education programs, has issued an eye-opening report on how the largest for-profit universities in America compare to their public and private non-profit peers.
Some of the largest online university systems in the USA are cited unfavorably in the Education Trust’s report, including America’s largest enroller of online students: The University of Phoenix Online.
The report faults the University of Phoenix for its graduation rate of only 5% for online bachelor degree students who enroll through the online programs of this university system. The national graduate rate average among the ten largest for profit bachelor degree colleges is about 20%.{{LeftSponsor53}}
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