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CPEP Celebrates 25 Years of Serving Underserved Youth
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: Catalysts Powering Educational Performance: For 25 years, the Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program (CPEP) has been serving as a catalyst to significantly change underrepresented and underserved students’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviors toward the pursuit of education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)….
I’m First Project Launches to Celebrate and Support First-Generation College Students
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: The nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity (CSO) thinks it’s time to celebrate first-generation college students and help build the next generation students who will be the first in their families to attend and graduate from college. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan agrees and will help launch CSO’s ‘I’m First campaign’ on October 2 with his own video message….
21st Annual HTCIA International Conference Extends Special Offer to Students and School Faculty
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: Getting the training and experience needed to work in the computer forensics or network security fields can be challenging and expensive. In keeping with its proud mission of educating individuals involved with high tech investigations, the High Technology Crimes Investigation Association is uniting with the academic community to offer students and faculty alike, an opportunity to interact with and learn from the top industry experts….
UCSF Postdoc Union to Hold Panel on Childcare
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: In response to an overwhelming need to improve childcare access and affordability at the University of California, United Auto Workers Local 5810, which represents more than 6,000 postdoctoral scholars at UC, is hosting a panel on childcare resources, low-income childcare funding, work/life balance and statewide initiatives for childcare funding….
TeamF1’s F1rstHand Community Initiative Boots Up Local High School’s Robotics Team
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: TeamF1, Inc., a leader in embedded networking and security software solutions for wired and wireless applications, and a Fremont business for more than a decade, continues its tradition of community involvement this year by supporting activities benefiting local youth at American High School….
CPEP Wins National Excellence in Summer Learning Award
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: The Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program ‘Summer Gaming Challenge’ has been awarded the prestigious National Summer Learning Association’s 2013 New York Life Excellence in Summer Learning Award. Non-profit Catalysts Powering Educational Performance (CPEP, Inc.) is honored to have its STEM program recognized for the award….
Online Business Plan and Proposal Class Now Enrolling
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: The University of Utah Continuing Education department is now enrolling students for a 16-week Business Plan and Proposal writing course. The course begins August 26, 2013. Students do not need to be residents of Utah or admitted to the University in order to take the course….
National University Selects Regent Education’s Regent 8 Solution to Drive Efficiency and Service in Financial Aid Processing
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: National University is the second-largest private, non-profit university in California. With more than 23,000 students it was imperative to find a financial aid management solution that would drive automation and support their complex packaging and repackaging needs. Regent Education’s Regent 8 was selected based on its advanced packaging and automation capabilities….
Irving Independent School District Pilots Caselite Software
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: Irving Independent School District (ISD) is located outside of Dallas, and provides a comprehensive curriculum of educational services to nearly 35,000 students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The special education department of Irving ISD has decided to pilot Caselite Software with its staff of Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) during the 2013-14 school year….
A New Way to Learn: Spanish Teachers Provide Free Live Online Spanish Classes
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: Bright Spanish, an organization comprised of a small group of Spanish teachers, is offering free six-week Spanish courses online. The classes are taught live in a video conference ‘classroom,’ where students listen to the teacher and participate in real time. The group hopes to make Spanish learning more accessible by providing interactive, guided classes that anyone can take regardless of their location or budget….