Connected learning is the effort to explore the added value of distance in our programs of study, with our students acting as agents in wider communities beyond the campus ivy covered gates.

FORBES: A New Kind of Distance Learning

Up early, grooves cleaned and excited beyond belief, I pitched up at the gates of Magnolia Lane and made my way up to the clubhouse to check in, meet my caddy Travis in his traditional white overalls and head to the practice range.

CNN: The allure of Augusta: Savoring the Masters magic

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Stillwater has spent her first week in Iraq in the heavily protected Green Zone, the complicated war outside its gates still beyond her grasp.

NPR: An Activist Grandma, 'Embedded' in Iraq

He's a founding partner of African DNA, which offers African-American clients a method of tracing their history beyond 1870, the year where federal census records end in the "black hole of slavery, " Mr. Gates says.

WSJ: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on 'Finding Your Roots'