Author Archive for Veronica Hawkins

A sociology professor at California State University at San Marcos turned to advanced mapping technology to help her students learn about themselves and their communities, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Hoping to prod her students into reflecting on how racial and ethnic identities shape their lives, associate professor Theresa Suarez taught them to superimpose demographic data about race and ethnicity onto maps of their local communities. Using digital pushpins, they then marked the places where they shopped, worked, went […]

Although online education knows no borders, some countries have taken to it more quickly than others. Australia’s University of Southern Queensland has launched a fully online specialized degree program in education that it says is the first in the nation.

“Students can study on-campus at Toowoomba, Fraser Coast or Springfield, or study externally from anywhere in Australia or overseas,” said Associate Professor Ken Edwards of the new Bachelor of Education (Sport, Health and Physical Education) program. The program will make […]

Osama bin Laden may be dead, but as President Obama made clear, U.S. involvement in the Middle East and other areas with radical Muslim factions is far from over. This means that Arabic, already the fastest-growing foreign language for U.S. university study, according to the Modern Language Association, will likely continue to be in high demand. Recently, Pennsylvania launched an innovative effort to develop an online bachelor’s degree program in Arabic for its 14 state colleges and […]