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- DeVry reaching out to military veterans
- Yale or Podunk: Who cares?
- DeVry aids vet who served in Iraq
- Retired tech educator continues his passion
- Education At Technical Schools More Directly Tied To Workplace
- Scholarship for Sabino grad
- DeVry getting serious about video gaming
- Tech, business classes expand in valley
- DeVry University Students Display Fruits of Labor at Senior Project Fair
- Technology Ends Pointless Long Trip To Mailbox
- DeVry brings fast-tracked degree programs here
- Small-Town Canadian Opens Educational Opportunity in Memphis
- Technology: It can be her world
- A day of robots and dreams
- Middlesex, DeVry sign articulation agreement
- DeVry University in Georgia Tops List Of Universities Awarding Undergraduate Technology Degrees To Minority Students
- DeVry leads nation in granting degrees to minorities
DeVry reaching out to military veterans
POMONA - Finding ways to make the college experience more veteran friendly will be the topic of discussion today at the DeVry University here.
Representatives of the university, governmental agencies and student-veteran groups will be taking part in the discussion. Ideas produced by the panel could be implemented as part of a pilot program in Pomona as early as July, said Randy Plunkett, national director of military affairs for DeVry.
"We're pulling in all these major players to strategize," Plunkett said.
DeVry's history of working with veterans goes back to the end of World War II, Plunkett said.
As veterans return from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, they will have a chance to get a college education but they may also have special needs, he said.
Plunkett said DeVry offers a different environment than the average college campus since its students tend to be older, are more focused on academics and are preparing to enter their chosen field immediately after graduating.
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Yale or Podunk: Who cares?
By the time she reached high school, Krisanne Combs, an East Coaster by birth, knew that she was expected to attend a top college.
"I don't think it ever occurred to me that there was another option," said Combs, a 36-year old manager at REM Medical Corp. in Seattle. "I went off to the University of Virginia, secure in the knowledge that I'd been accepted at one of the top public schools in the country, but also disappointed that I didn't get into other schools I applied to."
She later earned her Master of Business Administration at Duke University - another school that would give her esteem among peers with whom the initial question, "Where did you go to school?" was standard.
But then she moved to Seattle and found that none of that really mattered much. She said she likes the laid-back attitude she finds here.
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DeVry aids vet who served in Iraq
For 11 months in 2006 and 2007, 1st Lt. Fred Nicholson planned thousands of trips in Iraq for a team of U.S. State Department and military officials attempting to teach Iraqis the principles of democracy.
.But while he was teaching Iraqis about democracy, Nicholson felt that the treatment he received from his own government was appalling.
In 2005, when the Army was looking for officers to go to Iraq to fill the PRT positions, it came knocking on Nicholson's door... he was enticed back into the Army with a promise that if he served a tour in Iraq and asked for an education waiver the Army would promote him to captain in November 2005.
.Nicholson asked for the waiver which would give him additional time to fulfill his educational requirement. But earlier this year, Nicholson was informed that his educational waiver was being denied and he'd be discharged on completing his Iraqi deployment.
In the past few weeks, Nicholson's fortunes have changed, four months after he returned to Colorado.
DeVry University - which heard about Nicholson's plight - awarded him a full scholarship. It was presented to him by Cecil Horst, president of DeVry University Colorado, on Aug. 11.
Daniel Hamburger, the national president of DeVry University, saw the Wall Street Journal article and called Horst in Denver, said Devan Barrett, the marketing manager for DeVry University Colorado.
"He told Mr. Horst to get a hold of Nicholson because he felt what the Army was doing to him was completely unfair," Barrett said. "Cecil contacted him and he was ecstatic and said 'Yes! Yes!" to scholarship offer, Barrett said.
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Retired tech educator continues his passion
After 47 years of teaching students the latest technology they need to be successful in the job market, George Dean recently retired from teaching at DeVry University's Addison campus.
But even though he has officially retired, Dean said he will continue to teach part-time because he enjoys the job so much.
"I have learned that a person must love what they do, otherwise it won't result in a meaningful career," Dean said. "Besides, I still want to teach because I have a few good years left in me."
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Education At Technical Schools More Directly Tied To Workplace
If you picture the DeVry University in Long Beach as a place people just go to in order to learn how to fix televisions and toasters, think again.
The most popular program at the school? Accounting. Second is a computer programming class for students who want to design video games or simulation programs (such as flight simulators).
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Scholarship for Sabino
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'Surprise' $64,000 DeVry award to aid career in flight simulation
When Alex Dwyer was a child, he was intrigued by military fighter aircraft and computers. Dwyer, 18, will get to pursue both interests after receiving a $64,000 Presidential Scholarship from DeVry University in Phoenix.
The Sabino High School graduate will study game and simulation programming and pursue a career working in flight simulation.
The Presidential award is given to 48 incoming students nationwide. The university has campuses in 24 states.
"It was a big surprise," Dwyer said. "I called my parents and both of them didn't believe me."
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DeVry getting serious about video gaming
DeVry University is poised to fill demand for savvy programmers in Austin's growing video game industry.
The university, best-known as the technical school that prepares graduates for 'real world' jobs, is launching Central Texas' first four-year degree in game and simulation programming.
After a two-year process, the school was granted accreditation for the bachelor's degree program and approved to start recruiting for the first class, which starts July 9.
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Tech, business classes expand in valley
The valley may soon have a new source of highly skilled workers, thanks to the recent opening of a new DeVry University center at 2160 Lundy Ave. in San Jose.
. More than 18,900 California students have graduated from DeVry and currently, more than 6,000 attend in the state.
According to Dement, one of the things that appeals to students is the opportunity to earn a bachelor's degree in less than three years and an associate's degree in about half that time, because, unlike traditional colleges, the school does not take summer breaks.
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DeVry University Students Display Fruits of Labor at Senior Project Fair
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Technology Ends Pointless Long Trip To Mailbox
ARLINGTON, VA - When John G. Ewald, a recent graduate of DeVry University's Crystal City campus saw how far his future in-laws had to travel just to get their daily mail, he decided to put his bachelor of science degree in electronics engineering technology to work to solve the problem.
"My future in-laws own a farm in Nebraska. Every day they travel 3 miles back and forth to their mail box. And that's not uncommon in rural areas. So, I wondered if I could create a mail box that could tell them if their mail had arrived, if someone picked it up, if the door was left open, or even if the flag was still up."
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DeVry brings fast-tracked
degree programs here
The for-profit university opened a center on the Southside last month.
One of the country's largest, publicly held, higher education companies has opened a center in Jacksonville, joining a host of other area post-secondary schools aimed at the working stiff.
DeVry University, the namesake subsidiary of DeVry Inc. (NYSE: DV), began offering evening classes at 8131 Baymeadows Circle West in March. The school, which has more than 48,000 students enrolled in 84 locations in the United States, Canada and online, offers associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees in business, finance and other technical fields.
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Small-Town Canadian Opens Educational Opportunity in Memphis
Not that Memphis is the largest of metropolitan communities in North America, but for Dr. Allan Ryan, it certainly dwarfs his hometown of Temiscaming, Quebec.
Ryan grew up in the small Canadian "pulp and paper town," which was founded in 1921 by Riordon Pulp and Paper Co. It was created so the company's paper mill workers would have a nice place to live.
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Technology: It can be her world
MERRILLVILLE | It's HerWorld, and welcome to it.
DeVry University, Purdue Lafayette and Purdue Calumet combined forces to put on a workshop Wednesday morning at the Radisson Hotel entitled HerWorld. The purpose of the workshop is to enlighten young women about the many opportunities that are available in the technology and business technology fields.
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A day of robots and dreams
DeVry Institute of Technology's cafeteria filled with screams on Friday, December 15 as 117 teenage girls raced to finish building robotic mice first - the winners were to receive gift cards from Best Buy.
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Middlesex, DeVry sign articulation agreement
Middlesex County College students majoring in business administration will be able to transfer seamlessly to DeVry University, North Brunswick, under an agreement struck by the two schools.
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DeVry University in Georgia Tops List Of Universities Awarding Undergraduate Technology Degrees To Minority Students
When it comes to granting bachelor's degrees in computer and information sciences to African-American students, DeVry University in Georgia leads the nation and state, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
The magazine, formerly known as Black Issues in Higher Education, named DeVry University in Georgia the top undergraduate degree producer in computer information sciences for African-Americans in its annual "Top 100 Degree Producers" report. Within the same academic discipline, the university was placed first in the state and sixth nationally for granting undergraduate degrees to all minority students.
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DeVry leads nation in granting degrees to minorities
DeVry University's California schools, which includes a campus in Elk Grove, leads the nation in granting bachelor's degrees in computer and information sciences to minority students, a higher-education magazine reports.
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