The projects are also expected to attract more students to study at the campus.
Rebecca Plante, a sociologist at Ithaca College, has been part of a team conducting a multi-campus interview study about sexuality.
This past fall, Wharton launched a Semester in San Francisco that allowed 55 MBA students to study at the Wharton San Francisco campus.
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During their time on campus, the fellows study with some of the world's leading scholars and experts in disciplines ranging from business to law to public policy to the natural sciences.
When Disney recruited on campus for a work-study program, Mr. Saied leapt at the chance to spend a semester at Disney World, taking evening classes on the company's approach to business.
In a separate study, female students who take leadership positions on campus score higher on measures of self-deception, based on recent research by Dr. Keating.
Students time their junior year study abroad for the fall semester so as to be on campus for basketball season in the spring.
It started with the cohort system and spread to the Thursday night pub, Wharton Follies, TalkTalk, study groups, group projects, grad student dorms, off-campus house parties and the weekend the entire class of 1990 spent at the Jersey Shore.
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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.
But on Friday, the panel said it also would study reusing a Newtown intermediate school or moving Sandy Hook Elementary to a former mental hospital campus that now includes a municipal town center and a youth academy.
Nanayang's EMBA participants can complete some study modules in the U.S. at the University of California's Berkeley business school campus as part of the Advanced Management Program.
If such a formal accreditation system could be established it would raise the prospect of online students anywhere in the world being able to study for a degree with famous universities, at a cost that is likely to be much lower than a traditional campus-based course.
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