Mississippi Business Journal » postsecondary http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Board approves courses for planned JSU-Madison campus http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/25/board-approves-courses-for-planned-jsu-madison-campus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=board-approves-courses-for-planned-jsu-madison-campus http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/25/board-approves-courses-for-planned-jsu-madison-campus/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:04:03 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=70284 MADISON — The state College Board has approved 42 courses for Jackson State University’s planned campus in Madison. Board officials say that’s only the beginning of the classes that JSU will offer in Jackson’s northern suburb. The list included nine business courses, four education courses and six gerontology courses. “I don’t know if that’s the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/25/board-approves-courses-for-planned-jsu-madison-campus/feed/ 0 Virtual college to use Instructure’s Canvas as learning platform http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/19/virtual-college-to-use-instructures-canvas-as-learning-platform/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=virtual-college-to-use-instructures-canvas-as-learning-platform http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/19/virtual-college-to-use-instructures-canvas-as-learning-platform/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:06:05 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=69997 JACKSON — The Mississippi Community College Board and the state’s 15 community colleges recently selected Canvas by Instructure as the learning platform for the Mississippi Virtual Community College (MSVCC). This partnership marks the beginning of a five-year engagement with Instructure, a company in eLearning technology. Because Canvas runs in “the cloud,” MSVCC will recognize a cost savings of approximately [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/19/virtual-college-to-use-instructures-canvas-as-learning-platform/feed/ 0 Nearly 75% of Miss. workers without postsecondary degree http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/03/nearly-75-of-miss-workers-without-postsecondary-degree/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nearly-75-of-miss-workers-without-postsecondary-degree http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/11/03/nearly-75-of-miss-workers-without-postsecondary-degree/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:14:32 +0000 Ross Reily http://msbusiness.com/?p=32761 JACKSON — Almost 75 percent of Mississippi’s working-age adults do not have a postsecondary degree, according to the Mississippi Economic Policy Center (MEPC). This finding is included in a recently released study by MEPC on workforce development in the state and ways to build more seamless pathways to postsecondary education and higher wages for workers. [...]

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