Besides being blessed with delightfully creative names, brothers Famous and Special Kirk have recently encountered another blessing: a chance to further their education online. Among the huge devastation left in Hurricane Katrina's wake was the ruining of many schools and…

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by Claire Duffett, Journal Staff
SYRACUSE — College seniors entering the job market in 2006 are finding more jobs at higher salaries. Graduates at Syracuse University (SU) are experiencing the same trend, SU’s career-services professionals say.
In 2005, SU graduates’ starting salaries exceeded pre-Sept.11, 2001, figures for the first time, says Michael Cahill, Center for Career Services director.
Cahill believes that 2006 salaries will exceed last year’s numbers, but says it is too early to determine by what margin, he says.
In 2005, the average starting salary for an SU graduate was $36,800, up from $34,700 in 2004, Cahill says. The increase came after several years of decline, with average salaries of $34,851 in 2001, $34,705 in 2002, and $33,679 in 2003.
Students who graduate from the L.C. Smith … | Read the rest of this entry »

No other state requires home-school parents to have a college degree if they don’t want to follow a set state-approved curriculum.
BY GEORGINA STARK
March 14, 2006
After 16 years of home schooling her seven children, ages 5 to 19, Betsy White knows how to get them to read, to understand arithmetic and to research anything she doesn’t know.
But public school teachers have something White doesn’t have – a college degree.
Without a degree, the Gloucester County mom had to submit a detailed curriculum to her school district before she was allowed to teach her children.
But future home-school parents may soon be able to sidestep the extra paperwork. State lawmakers passed two identical bills that drop the requirement that home-school parents have a college degree.
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[March 13, 2006]
(Billings Gazette (MT) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Mar. 13–Talk about flexible, Connie Keogh can work just about anywhere she can carry her laptop.
She’s logged hours in coffee shops, airports and even while sitting on the beach.
“Pretty much, when I’m working, I have the laptop in front of me and I’m either on the phone or getting ready to make a call,” she said.
Keogh, an Absarokee native, is a faculty member of Western Governors University, an online university headquartered in Salt Lake City.
“We call it an education without boundaries,” she said.
Keogh is not a professor, nor does she spend much time teaching. Rather, she coordinates the orientation program and she mentors students as they work toward their degrees through the virtual university. The actual … | Read the rest of this entry »

By: Angela Blanchard
3/9/2006
Lesley Frohlich is planning to graduate in June with a 2 year degree in business management. But she has never been required to set foot in class. A majority of colleges and universities are now offering online courses. One study shows at least 2.3 million people took an online course in 2004. Online learning was originally designed for students living far from campus. Now, that`s not always the case. Frohlich lives just fifteen minutes from school, but taking online courses allows her to fit class time into her daily schedule. “I can my homework at eight in the morning or two in the morning,” she says. “It`s flexible. It fits wherever I want it to.”
Lesley is able to work … | Read the rest of this entry »

The staff at Online Degrees Today.com would officially like to welcome you to our Blog! Here we will discuss the importance of online education, announce new school launches, program changes with existing schools, and more. Stay tuned as we’ll have new information daily.
To your education,
The Online Degrees Today.com Staff

We’re getting closer and closer! For now, here’s some random Shakespeare:
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest In one of thine, from that which thou departest And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase Without this, folly, age and cold decay If all were minded so, the times should cease And threescore year would make the world away Let those whom Nature hath not made for store Harsh featureless and rude, barrenly perish Look, whom she best endow’d she gave the more Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby Thou shouldst print more, not let that … | Read the rest of this entry »