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...business management, that didn't even exist two or three years ago. The innovative topics include Internet marketing, electronic-commerce marketing, multimedia and design, computer-network management, global-marketplace strategies, client service and retention, and managing a business in the face of new competitors. "Some of the courses we offer are so specific and narrowly focused that they would not really be applicable toward a degree," says Richard Vigilante, director of the Information Technologies Institute, part of New York University's School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies. Enrollment at the institute goes up about 12% every year. Noncredit courses...
...certificate distance-learning programs available from about 900 accredited colleges, observes Karen Hansen, executive editor at Peterson's, a Princeton, N.J., education- and career- products publishing company that puts out the annual Peterson's Guide to Distance Learning Programs. Peterson's latest figures show that U.S. higher-education institutions offer distance-learning courses to more than 7 million students, according to spokeswoman Sue Brooks...
Could distance learning ever replace traditional classroom education? You don't have to wait for the next century to answer this; you have to wait only until the fall. Western Governors University, a completely virtual college based in both Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, will be offering its first courses. Started by Governors from 18 Western states and encompassing the state universities in those areas, W.G.U. will initially offer continuing-education courses and associate degrees, says Jeff Edwards, marketing director for the school. There will be a con- centration on information technology courses, although at press time the catalog...
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...Disney, which owns Miramax, to fund a new magazine, a longtime goal of his. Weinstein was already a friend and fan of Brown's, and when he read last month that her contract with the New Yorker was due to expire on July 1, he approached her with an offer. More than a year ago, according to Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, he and Brown--they too are good friends--had begun having general discussions about her joining the company in some capacity. The Miramax deal, Eisner explains, "is the culmination of two separate conversations...