Category: Education

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ASU Students

ASU Students: Large Enrollment, Campuses And Dreams

With four campuses, 250 undergraduate programs and nearly 72-thousand students enrolled, Arizona State University (ASU) students aren’t finding it difficult to stick out from the crowd. In fact, they are proving countless ways to be innovative, distinct and professionally developed. … Continue reading

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ASU Announces Innovation Challenge Winners

On Monday February 13, the winners for Arizona State University’s Innovation Challenge were announced.   The ASU Student Innovation Challenge is a program designed to give undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to make a difference through social innovation. The … Continue reading

Children's Museum of Phoenix

Children’s Museum Of Phoenix Receives $150,000 Grant

Children’s Museum of Phoenix receives $150,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare. With the focus on improving the health and eating habits of young children and their caregivers, the awarded grant to Children’s Museum of Phoenix will help fund the Healthy Children Program. … Continue reading

Education Crisis

A Solution To The Education Crisis: Arizona Paving The Way

You’ve read the dismal facts and figures: only 76.1 percent of Arizona children graduate from high school. There are 90,000 students in Arizona at schools that receive D-grades – enough children to fill a stadium. These facts and figures are … Continue reading

School District

What Parents Should Look For In A School District

School districts Valleywide are often being faced with losing students to nearby districts. When this happens, a district must do what it can to keep their current students, bring in new students and bring back students that may have moved … Continue reading

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Green Schoolhouse Series Creates Sustainable Valley Schools

Thanks to the Green Schoolhouse Series, three Arizona schools will receive makeovers with sustainability in mind as part of an 18-market national tour. For 14 million American children in school today, December 1, 2011 marked a step in the right … Continue reading

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ASU Offers Sustainability Leadership Graduate Certificate To Soldiers

Online certificate — the Sustainability Leadership Graduate Certificate — custom-designed to meet US Army, Army National Guard, Army Reserve readiness objectives The design and establishment of an online graduate certificate in sustainability leadership at Arizona State University for soldiers and … Continue reading

Arizona Tax Credit, ASCT

Is Your Business Taking Advantage of the Arizona Tax Credit Program?

Is Your Business Taking Advantage of the Arizona Tax Credit Program? Did you know that Arizona businesses can redirect their entire state tax liability to scholarship organizations that help improve education in Arizona statewide?  If your business is not taking … Continue reading

W.P. Carey

ASU Business School Community Mourns The Loss Of W.P. Carey

The Arizona State University and Phoenix business communities are mourning the loss of a great benefactor, philanthropist and businessman. William Polk Carey, one of the nation’s most prominent real estate investors and the major donor behind the W. P. Carey … Continue reading

Virtual Schools, Online Education

Virtual Schools, Online Education: Is It Right For Your Student?

Virtual Schools, Online Education in Arizona: Is It Right For Your Student? As adults we know that not everyone is suited for a  9 to 5 job. Whether it is work style or other responsibilities such as parenting, social, and … Continue reading

Small Business Leadership Academy

Small Business Leadership Academy: Building High Performance Teams (Part II)

Small Business Leadership Academy: Building High Performance Teams (Part II) Ria Robles, owner of B2B Delivery LLC, was spending the lion’s share of a couple days a week checking and re-checking the complex bills she sends to customers. She reached … Continue reading

10 Re-careering Tips - AZ Business Magazine November/December 2011Arizona Business Magazine November/December 2011

10 Re-careering Tips

10 Re-careering Tips: 1. Check out the hot — and not-so-hot — fields. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gives indications of which fields expect to grow versus lose jobs, so keep that in mind when you’re deciding whether or not … Continue reading

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