ITEP Prepares High School Students for Jobs of the Future with SoCal Donations

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 19, 2010

International Trade Education Programs (ITEP) has started off the New Year on the right financial foot receiving donations from four corporations to provide training for jobs of the future.

We would not be here today if we did not receive contributions from companies like the Bettina Weary Trust, Teekay Corporation, Shell Oil Company, the Watson Land Company, and the international trade industry, said Carol Rowen, CEO & Founder of International Trade Education Programs (ITEP). We are so thankful to the business and international community that supports us as we celebrate a decade of providing training programs for jobs of the future.

ITEP received $ 5,000 from Bettina Weary Trust; $ 30,000 from Teekay Corporation; $ 10,000 from the Shell Oil Company and $ 25,000 from the Watson Land Company.

ITEP programs assess the needs of high schools and the surrounding transportation, logistics and industry needs. ITEP works with schools that need to boost graduation rates, decrease the number of dropouts, and enhance standardized test scores. Students who graduate from the struggling schools rarely had opportunities or motivation to pursue further education or employment. Thats where ITEP comes to the rescue by designing programs to fulfill those needs, guiding and mentoring students on a career path of current jobs of the future. They discover a whole new world of career choices they would have never imagined, said Rowen. ITEP trains high students at various academies

The International Trade Academy (ITA) is becoming an entrepreneurial powerhouse, said Rowen. It two businesses under development one is a recycling enterprise, in collaboration with ConocoPhillips, Tesoro and SA Recycling and the other almost ready for launch is a beauty products company led by ITA Advisory Board Chair Lauren Warren. Some of the other academies training high school students and are becoming a model for the rest of state and nation include:

ITEP Prepares High School Students for Jobs of the Future with SoCal Donations

Students cant cope without media

(Vocus/PRWEB) 8 April 2011

Students around the world report that they are ‘addicted’ to media, describing in vivid terms their cravings, their anxieties and their depression when they have to abstain.

Unplugging my internet cable feels like turning off a life support system, said Bournemouth University (BU) first year Adam Fisher.

“My dependence on media is absolutely sickening,” said a student from Lebanon.

“I felt like there was a problem with me,” wrote a student from Uganda.

Undergraduates from the Media School at Bournemouth University (BU) were the only students in the UK to take part in the study, going 24 hours without media and monitoring the effects. The findings were released (link to website http://theworldunplugged.wordpress.com/ ) by the International Centre for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland.

Dr Roman Gerodimos who led Unplugged in the UK says: “These findings have profound implications not only for journalists or educators, but also for social scientists at large. The extent of the similarities in the students’ responses reveal a common media culture that cuts across geographical, economic and political boundaries.”

The study, concludes that most students, whether in developed or developing countries, are strikingly similar in how they use media – and how ‘addicted’ they are to it. If you are under 25, it doesn’t matter if you live in the U.S. or Chile or China, Slovakia, Mexico or Lebanon: you not only can’t imagine life without your cell phone, laptop and mp3 player, you can’t function without them.

“Perhaps naively, we assumed that we would find substantial differences among the students who took part in this study,” noted project director Susan D. Moeller, a journalism and public policy professor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the director of ICMPA. “After all, our partner universities come from very different regions – Chile, Slovakia and Hong Kong, for example – and from countries with great disparities in economic development, culture and political governance – for instance, Uganda, Lebanon and mainland China.

“But it quickly became apparent from looking at the student demographics and the students’ narrative comments,” said Moeller, “that all the student-responders in this study are digital natives. It was then that we realized that digital natives have no passports: if we had covered up the place name of a student’s comment we would have had no idea of the student’s nationality.”

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Students cant cope without media

Being Well Center Releases Free Screeners to Determine Likelihood of Success at College for ADD/ADHD Students

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

The Being Well Center, http://www.thebeingwellcenter.com, located in Pittsburgh PA and a worldwide leader in ADD/ADHD diagnosis and treatment, is releasing a set of diagnostic screeners that pinpoint potential barriers to success for students entering into or currently struggling in college. Available as a free resource to parents and students, the Confidence@College (C@C) screeners take into account the whole person and are rooted in The Being Well Centers philosophy that independence and success can be achieved in spite of the challenges of ADD/ADHD, temperamental extremes, learning disabilities, language disorders, and mental health problems.

Through its Confidence@College program, The Being Well Center systematically and accurately identifies all contributors to possible college failure and develops individualized success plans. Confidence@College provides ongoing long distance support to struggling college students via a team of doctors, counselors, and educational specialists who utilize innovative technologies to meet with patients throughout the semester. Download the free C@C screeners at http://www.thebeingwellcenter.com/about_service_cc.php

The Being Well Center has pioneered a treatment program, Confidence@College, tailored to college students who may struggle with new demands for independence, time/task management, social decision making, problem solving, and self-advocacy that college presents. The BWCs college screeners are a key element in the C@C programs initiative to identify and treat at-risk students before they fail or drop out of college. The screeners help parents and students identify the temperamental extremes, skill weaknesses, attentional differences, health challenges, stressors and attitudes that can pose barriers to success at college.

Parents are frustrated that nagging, pleading, and threatening just doesnt work when it comes to success at college. They lack confidence that their kids wills succeed and worry that their huge investment in their childs education will disappear down the drain. The fear and frustration is no less for the student, who may have great intentions but quickly gets behind the 8-ball and then avoids or lies about where things really stand, observes BWC founder and medical director, Dr. Craig B. Liden.

Being Well Center Releases Free Screeners to Determine Likelihood of Success at College for ADD/ADHD Students

NYIT Hosts Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium Focused On Engaging Students In The Global Century

New York, N.Y. (Vocus) March 23, 2010

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) hosted its sixth annual interdisciplinary symposium, Engaging Students in the Global Century, on Friday, March 19, 2010, at its Manhattan campus.

The symposium served as an exchange of new ideas, initiatives, and technologies in higher education. Presentations focused on addressing how to successfully engage international students in American-style education.

This symposium attracts people who are passionate about sharing ideas and information on cutting-edge technologies, curriculum, and other creative methods in higher education, said Roger Yu, dean of NYITs College of Arts and Sciences.

The symposium included a number of presentations led by prestigious leaders in education from NYIT, Columbia University, Utah Valley University, and William Paterson University. The session, Engaging Students in College Literacy: The Nanjing Experience, presented personal accounts of teaching abroad from NYIT professor Gary Stephens and adjunct professor Margaret Stacey. They shared specific successes and challenges faced when they taught students at NYITs campus in Nanjing, China. In addition, Ryan Kelsey and Ashlinn Quinn, from Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University, presented Lessons Learned from a Three-Year Curriculum and Technology Design Experiment in a Global Synchronous Course.

Technologys impact on higher education was a prevalent theme throughout the symposium, and presenters identified and discussed resources such as blogs, Facebook, and YouTube that connects campuses with one another.

For a full symposium schedule, visit http://engagingnyit.wordpress.com/schedule.

About NYIT

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in more than 90 fields of study, including architecture and interior design; arts and sciences; education; engineering and computing sciences; health professions; management; and osteopathic medicine. A non-profit independent, private institution of higher education, NYIT has more than 15,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. For more than 50 years, NYIT has been guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. To date, 81,500 students have graduated from NYIT. For more information, visit http://www.nyit.edu.

Contact:

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646.273.6008

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NYIT Hosts Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium Focused On Engaging Students In The Global Century

Web Design Jobs Program For Students Created By DjO Design Group

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 25, 2012

DjO Design Group, a Chicago web design company, today announced a program that gives students the opportunity to learn web design in a real world scenario. The program focuses on primary website design skills including content writing, graphic design, HTML, CSS and JavaScript development. More advanced subject matter like project management, marketing, search engine optimization, and server administration are also available.

Website design is constantly evolving and requires you to continuously educate yourself to compete in this industry, says Alex Delhaven, a senior member of the group. He added, What kids learn today is already mostly outdated by the time they enter the workforce. Thats why weve decided to help change that for a few lucky candidates.

The program will select a handful of students who are interested and team them up with members of DjO Design Group. Students will engage in activities that teach them the skills necessary to get a job after they graduate from school. An example of the activities include:

Web Design Jobs Program For Students Created By DjO Design Group