Mary Lou spent almost all her entire professional career in international education, with the past 15 years focused on Africa. She lived in Madagascar for six years before she took her position as the Dean of African Studies for SIT Study Abroad. Experiences in working with a global network of knowledge producers and directing collaborative […]

Today was the last day for Terri as the Interim Executive Director. She came on board at a time when the Consortium needed to establish itself as an organization ready to take on its mission in a sustainable and scalable way. The Consortium’s membership grew by 30% in the ten months that Terri was serving […]

On the 14th of July at Macomb Community College in Michigan, President Obama announced the proposal to commit $50 million to develop open online courses for community colleges. This is a part of the American Graduation Initiative which aims at five million additional graduates in the next decade in order to equip the American workforce […]

Highlights recognized as valuable free resource for secondary educators and students CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 12 – MIT’s Highlights for High School site (http://ocw.mit.edu/highschool) has been recognized as a Landmark Website for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians.  An outgrowth of MIT’s renown OpenCourseWare program, Highlights for High School features more than […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MDC, Inc. announced today that they are awarding $16.5 million in grants to community colleges and states “to expand groundbreaking remedial education programs that experts say are key to dramatically boosting the college completion rates of low-income students and students of color” (http://bit.ly/wouV8). A significant portion of the […]