In addition to consistent demand--as long as there is a college, there will be students in need of housing--university areas offer a variety of diversity and cultural perks.
According to the California Innocence Project, the woman later admitted that Banks had not kidnapped or raped her during a consensual encounter at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where Banks was a middle linebacker with a scholarship offer from the University of Southern California.
But one of the participating schools, University of Cincinnati, will offer a course called Innovation and Design Thinking, which a student could use toward a degree in business or engineering.
The advent of cyberspace is less likely to destroy the university than to offer it novel ways of reaching out to more students at lower cost.
But studies of these programmes offer only lukewarm support, according to David Bell of the University of Stirling and David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College.
Finnerty, a star at Brighton High School, accepted an offer to play at the University of Toledo but transferred to Grand Valley after the 2001 season.
"We did offer, twice, " said University of Minnesota president Eric Kaler, pointing out that Minnesota graduates Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale were Democratic nominees for president.
King's College London and the University of Southampton both offer six-year degrees (a year longer than normal) to about one in ten of their medical students.
Academic credit for completed online work is a possibility at some stage, though, and The New York Times reported that the University of Washington will offer credit this autumn for its Coursera online courses.
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The other half is with some 50 business schools like Judge, Rutgers Business School and the Belk College of Business at University of North Carolina, which buy packages of mentoring hours and offer them free to students.
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Last month, the program created a partnership with the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University to offer each inmate who completes the program a certificate in entrepreneurship.
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While many offer leg support, a team from University of Pennsylvania recently took silver in an engineering competition for its TitanArm prototype, a powered upper-body exoskeleton that, as the picture above shows, allows you to out-rep anyone at the gym.
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Coursera has been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so.
To calm rural discontent, larger cities now offer more generous compensation, Joyce Yanyun Man of Peking University says.
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The University of Texas says it could offer degree credits through the online platform, with a tuition fee attached.
Earlier reports have said that the University of Washington is planning to offer credit for Coursera courses, though students will likely have to pay a fee and do extra work with a U. of W. instructor.
Some may have been lured by the siren song of Wall Street, but others may simply have concluded that it did not offer a stable career, says Hal Salzman of Rutgers University, one of the authors.
An earlier Times story noted that the University of Washington is planning to offer credit for courses from another MOOC provider, Coursera, though students will likely have to pay a fee, and do extra work with a University of Washington instructor.
For the most part, for-profit companies like Kaplan, Strayer and the University of Phoenix (among others) offer specialized degrees and certificates closely related to specific jobs.
According to a study by Rice University 40 percent of businesses would not offer another Groupon deal again and many companies have noticed that this new wave of online shopping does nothing encourage brand loyalty.
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, associations representing Catholic hospitals and schools including the University of Notre Dame didn't immediately offer a substantive response, saying they were still studying the proposals.
Not only is it labor-intensive to check references for people who might not be poised for a job offer, but Jack Harsh, adjunct professor at the University of Richmond Robins School of Business, said that many employers worry about the risk of liability in rejecting a candidate based on poor references.
A. graduate from the University of Missouri, thought when she accepted the offer to join the Peace Corps next February.
Deloitte LLP paired up with Indiana University's Kelley School of Business last November to offer a certificate in business analytics to its midlevel employees.
In the early 1990s, he got an offer from a Kansas-based networking interoperability company and dropped out of the University of Houston to take that job.
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New entrants are trying to get in on the act: Pearson, an educational publisher which owns 50% of The Economist, announced this week that it plans to offer its own degree course, accredited by Royal Holloway, part of the University of London.
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The University of Phoenix views its admissions approach as being inclusive, arguing that bricks-and-mortar universities exert a form of elitism by using grades and standardised testing as a way of restricting class size, whereas the distance-learning university can offer places to a wider student body whose priority is simply to move ahead.
It can also offer its members a pretty nice life, financing university degrees for all the children of the kibbutz, even graduate degrees for those who wish to pursue them.
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St Andrews University said it would, however, offer "a wide-ranging package of new bursaries, scholarships and financial aid".
In the UK, the Futurelearn consortium of 18 institutions, headed by the Open University, has announced plans to offer online courses from later this year.
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