| Little known school has big mission
As a Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi student, Allie Christensen didn't notice the building on the northeast corner of Ward Island, which is almost entirely occupied by the university. The 21-year-old from Iowa had long wanted to do missionary work; she said she asked God where she could go for a seminary education. Soon after, a fellow A&M-Corpus Christi student pointed her to that building in the corner of the island, and this spring she enrolled in the school. "I think a lot of people don't know what it is," Christensen said. "Or they think it's part of A&M-Corpus Christi." That building is the growing South Texas School of Christian Studies, a host institution for both Howard Payne University in Brownwood and Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene that plans to offer classes in McAllen next fall.
Hands-on: VGCC-MPMC project educates nurses in hospital space
Nursing students and faculty members of Vance Granville Community College passed through the doors of the new Allied Health Sciences Simulation Center last January at Maria Parham Medical Center. They stepped into the frontier of nursing education in a 3,000-square-foot realistic learning environment comprised of eight rooms, each with a bed where a “person" lay awaiting care and treatment. The future of clinical training is now here, made possible by a N.C. Community College grant worth $153,565 and the innovative thinking of Cindy Faulkner. “When I became aware of VGCC's need for space, it was only natural that Maria Parham would want to help in any way we can," said Faulkner, the hospital's vice-president of patient care services. Faulkner, herself a VGCC nursing graduate, was encouraged to pursue the project by two members of the medical center's board of directors, Ray Meeks, current chairman, and Leo Kelly Jr.
Smart Card Training Made Easier With Online Course From Smart Card ...
PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/05/07 -- Smart cards are becoming commonplace around the world, used in financial, healthcare, identity, security, transportation and telecommunications applications. As such, it's important for individuals who provide products and services or who may become users of smart cards in these industries to be grounded in the basic fundamentals of this emerging and evolving technology. To provide this foundation, the Smart Card Alliance has introduced a new online course, Fundamentals of Smart Card Technology, available at http://www.smartcardtraining.com. The course has evolved from years of classroom instruction developed by leading industry experts for the Educational Institute operated by the Alliance. It provides a thorough overview of the basic components of smart card technology and the many security and payments applications for which smart cards are used throughout the global marketplace.
Break the Barriers Awarded $1.5 Million Grant to Support Physical ...
FRESNO, Calif. (FV Newswire) - Break the Barriers, Inc., the nation's premier sports-arts center uniting the able and disabled, today announced that it will receive $500,000 per year for the next three years from The Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP). The PEP funds will be used exclusively to improve and expand the physical education and afterschool programs in the Fresno, Clovis, Madera, Kings Canyon, Fowler and Golden Valley Unified School Districts. Program partners include CSU Fresno, Fresno and Madera County Offices of Education, Kids Kan, Inc. and, Joe Herzog, Region 28 chairman for the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAPHERD).
The Carol M. White Physical Education Program is part of the U.S. Department of Education that provides grants to initiate, expand, and improve physical education programs for K--12 students in order to help them make progress toward meeting state standards for physical education.
National Center Focuses on Improving Quality of Early Childhood ...
MIAMI-(Business Wire)-February 16, 2007 - Positive physical and mental stimulation in a child's first years lays the foundation for success in school and beyond. With three out of four American children cared for outside the home by age four, clearly the quality of those early learning experiences is critical. However, experts say the vast majority of children currently receive low-quality care in poorly designed programs with inadequately trained staff. United Way of Miami-Dade is committed to elevating the quality of early childhood education for all children, through a new, comprehensive approach to early learning. .
EDITORIAL: Faculty, staff lend expertise to education
Art and graphic design students have a unique opportunity this week to take in their instructors' creative genius by visiting the faculty art exhibit in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. This faculty-created art demonstrates the innovation and method presented in class in a tangible way.
Similar presentations of talent by educators are available through faculty dance concerts and musical recitals during the year.
Students benefit further from this personalized student-teacher relationship when faculty and staff incorporate their specific expertise into a class.
The opportunity to learn from the experiences of faculty and staff is not limited to creative studies, however. The Journal encourages students to take advantage of their educators' knowledge and backgrounds.
$200000 Grant to Provide Computer Skills for Juneau's Public ...
ANCHORAGE, AK -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/05/07 -- A $199,905 grant from the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development will serve economically and educationally disadvantaged adults who lack the technology skills needed to be successful in the workplace. The grant to Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) under HUD's Public Housing Neighborhood Networks program will target tenants in Juneau's Cedar Park and Geneva Woods public housing developments, along with those in the Mountain View elderly/disabled complex. Under a three-year contract with AHFC, Southeast Regional Resource Center will provide services for adult basic education and computer skills instruction, and after-school homework and literacy support for children, including literacy skill development, academic enrichment, and supervised computer labs using educational software and activities.
Medics cry foul against govt order in Kashmir
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is witness to a major row over the government's fresh order making two years service in rural areas mandatory for doctors intending to go for higher studies. Under it, all in-service doctors should be eligible for post-graduation and other special courses only when they have served in rural areas for at least two years. The order is issued in a bid to resurrect the derelict rural health sector. Most of the doctors, who complete their MBBS, prefer to serve in the city hospitals citing poor infrastructure in the rural areas. The new law will provide big relief to the rural people. We are also planning incentives for doctors who will serve in the rural areas. Fifteen bonus marks will be awarded to doctors intending to go abroad for higher education for each year's service in the rural sectors, said KB Jindial, secretary health and medical education.
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