Fake Students, Cleveland Tech Center, E-Learning Snow Days & More

Associate Vice President for Policy, OSU/OH-TECH
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Ohio Technology Consortium
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 9:15am (updated Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 9:30am)

Grob apprentice program grooms for manufacturing career (Lima News) Rhodes State College has partnered with Grob Machine Tools in Bluffton, OH to provide a free associate’s degree to participants of Grob’s apprenticeship program.

 

A new antidote for snow days: 'e-learning days' (USA Today) – Due to the high number of calamity days taken by schools this year, many districts are pursuing plans to use e-learning days as a way to make up for lost class time.

 

Career education classes explode in variety (USA Today) – Schools throughout the Cincinnati area are providing a range of options for high schoolers to gain technical skills ranging from veterinary skills from a local farm to manufacturing skills at a vocational school.

 

Big Data Comes To Cleveland (IdeaStream) – ByteGrid, a Virginia based company, is renovating a part of the Cleveland Technology Center to add a data center to serve private and public organizations.

 

Fake students steal college grants (The Columbus Dispatch) – Colleges nationwide are facing identity fraud scams aimed at taking federal grant money meant for tuition support, resulting in nearly $187 million lost over four years.