DeVry Launches Keller Center for Corporate Learning

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Learning is a powerful tool in today’s workplace. According to a recent study by Progrexion, the demand for corporate education is growing at a rate of 35 percent per year. In response to this growing need, DeVry University, its Keller Graduate School of Management and Becker Professional Review announce the launch of the Keller Center for Corporate Learning.

The Keller Center for Corporate Learning offers companies and their employees the flexibility of taking courses at a corporation’s facilities, online or at one of the more than 90 university locations nationwide. For employers, the Keller Center provides a single source of corporate education that can offer curriculum continuity coast-to-coast. For employees, the Keller Center offers the flexibility to continue their education when and how it is convenient for them by allowing employees to balance work, school and personal priorities.

The Key to Happiness

Dedicate yourself to the development of your natural talents and abilities by doing what you love to do, and doing it better and better in the service of a cause that is greater than yourself.

~ Brian Tracy

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ITT Tech: More Schools, More Students, More Jobs

ITT Technical Institute is expanding its footprint by beginning operations at its 101st college in Phoenix and 102nd college in Columbus, Ohio during this calendar year.

 82 percent of employable graduates of the school – which offers postsecondary education in six fields of study – obtained employment using skills taught in their programs of study as of April 30.

ITT Educational sees gain in students, profits

Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Nobel Lecture

Russian writer Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin’s prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, died at his home from a stroke August 3, 2008.

It is art, and it is literature.

There is a miracle which they can work: they can overcome man’s unfortunate trait of learning only through his own experience, unaffected by that of others. From man to man, compensating for his brief time on earth, art communicates whole the burden of another’s long life experience with all its hardships, colors, and vitality, re-creating in the flesh what another has experienced, and allowing it to be acquired as one’s own.

~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Nobel Lecture

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation and best-selling book, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 47.

“I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.”

~ Randy Pausch

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Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture – Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Bernard Osher donates to education and the arts

Among students over 50, Osher has had an enormous impact. About 400 lifelong learning institutes exist in the US and Canada, most of them affiliated with colleges and universities.

These noncredit, fee-based programs are often part of the community-outreach programs of universities, and thus vulnerable to cuts or even elimination during tough times. Yet Osher has made grants of more than $77 million to this field, establishing or strengthening 121 such programs across the country.

Source: Bernard Osher called the ‘quiet giver’

Fit and Trim for Life

Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.

He is a self-help author who has recorded many of his works as audio books. His talks and seminar topics include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness, and business strategy.

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Woz Knows

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak says education was a primary motivation for his inventions.

He said he always imagined that one day computers would be able to serve as virtual teachers, giving students one-on-one instruction that cannot be delivered in traditional ways.

Education Was a Primary Motivation

High Gas Prices Drive More Students Online

Online enrollment for the University of Phoenix in Houston grew 19 percent over the previous quarter.

Technology has made the classes more appealing, using podcasts, PowerPoint presentations, texting and online chat rooms.

“What initially draws them is convenience,” said Marshall Schott, assistant vice president for instructional support and outreach at the University of Houston. “They don’t have to deal with parking. They don’t have to deal with commuting, with high gas prices.”

Source: High gas prices, convenience fuel Internet boom

Lifelong Learning at ASU

ASUNews – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s slate of classes, workshops and lectures, which already spans metropolitan Phoenix from Buckeye and Surprise to Mesa and Florence, is set for further expansion. Collaboration with the city of Tempe has established “Tempe Connections” course offerings starting this fall at the Tempe Library. The Institute also has formed partnerships with Arizona Opera and the Phoenix Art museum to offer joint programming.

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“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

~ Samuel Ullman