The Tostitos brand crowned six die-hard University of Texas fans champions of this year’s Tostitos “Race to the Bowl” competition and awarded them $200,000 for their school’s general scholarship fund during the national broadcast of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Starting on New Year’s Eve in New York City, a team of fans from Ohio [...]
When the Gotham Book Mart closed its doors last year, the disposition of its precious contents was in question. But thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Gotham Book Mart Collection has a new home at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. A landmark cultural institution in New York City, the Gotham Book Mart [...]
Voyager Expanded Learning® announced that the number of students accessing its online reading and math programs continues to climb, particularly during after school hours and on weekends. Last week, more than 165,000 students logged on to the company’s three web-based intervention programs, Ticket to Read(TM), a K-5 online reading program, Strategic Online Learning Opportunities® [...]
Attachmate Corporation announced that the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) in New York City is using Verastream® Host Integrator software to enhance the reliability and scalability of its online student registration and information system. Faced with a growing number of complaints about the slow and frustrating online registration process, BMCC turned to Attachmate’s [...]
Kendall College Les Roches School of Hospitality Management announced that the Dean of the School, Jeffrey Catrett, will present a speech at the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show today in New York City. Mr. Catrett was selected by the American Hotel & Lodging Association to speak at the popular trade show because of his [...]
American Home Food Products, currently doing business as Artisanal Premium Cheese, announced that it is entering a new program to co-promote Artisanal Premium Cheeses at all 16 Viking Cooking Schools across the country. Seven Viking Cooking Schools have already begun scheduling classes featuring Artisanal Premium Cheeses.
Artisanal continues to offer prepaid classes at its Manhattan [...]
The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education has announced that Stanford Graduate School of Business professor David Baron is the winner of the 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award was made at a November 5 reception at Ernst & Young’s corporate headquarters in New York City.
The award was among several given at [...]
The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill (Grow) announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a series of patent claims that include Grow’s proprietary system for analyzing student assessment data. This analytical system provides educators, parents, and students with understandable and comparable topic-level scores, thus illuminating each [...]
The Humane Society of the United States and The Art Institutes announced the winners of the annual Cool vs. Cruel fur-free fashion design competition.
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In its fourth year, The Cool vs. Cruel Competition educates the future generation of designers enrolled in The Art Institutes schools fashion programs about [...]
Nicole Woolsey Biggart, dean and professor of management and sociology at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management, will receive the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education’s 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award for Institutional Impact at a reception this evening at Ernst & Young’s corporate headquarters in New York City.
The annual recognition, dubbed the [...]