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Meredith Experts in the News Meredith faculty, staff and students have served as experts in a wide variety of news articles, in media outlets such as CNN.com, Salon.com, and EdTech Magazine.
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Single-gender education creates, very early on, a different level of confidence. This creates stronger leaders who will know how to work with men. They’ve honed their skills, they’re comfortable with who they are and are confident going out and leading. As a result, they are better citizens, volunteers and workers.” —President Maureen Hartford, in a profile as one of Cary Magazine’s 2010 Women of Western Wake.
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Under basic guidelines of contract law, silence is not a contractual acceptance. In other words, someone can’t send you a letter reading, “If I don’t hear from you by Friday, we have a contract” and thereby bind you. In many ways, a pre-checked purchase box is not any different in that it requires no active assent from a
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by inaction or silence—something that the law has prohibited for a very long time.” —Associate Professor of Business Jeff Langenderfer in an article in The Washington Post on opt-out travel insurance. The story also ran on CNN.com.
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The teacher’s job is to respect the role of the parents … but also to make a safe place for children to ask questions and speak. So when you’re talking about introducing this into a class, you have to think about respecting lots of family boundaries.” —Mary Kay Delaney, Associate Professor of Education and Head of the Department of Education, in a Salon.com article about talking about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with children who are too young to remember the event.
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High Percentage of Class of 2010 Studied Abroad
By standardizing on professional-grade hardware and software, we give our faculty the confidence of knowing that all students have the appropriate tools for what they want to teach.” —Jeff Howlett, Chief Information Officer, in an EdTech Magazine article about college technology initiatives.
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early 40% of the most recent graduating class had studied abroad at least once while attending Meredith College. The Office of International Programs reports that 39.34% of the Class of 2010 studied abroad, compared with 31% last year. The percentage of students studying abroad from each graduating class has increased from 7.7% in 2001 to its current level. Global education was a primary focus of Meredith’s Vision 2010 strategic plan, which included a goal of having 25% of each graduating class study abroad.
two who participated in the College’s inaugural semester program in Sansepolcro, Italy. The remaining third studied with other schools or educational organizations. Students studied a wide range of subjects including foreign language, peace and conflict studies, history, art, politics, culture, literature, business, fashion merchandising and design, education and child development among others. In addition some students completed internships or scientific research while abroad. The full list of countries visited are Australia, Botswana, Chile, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, the
The percentage of students studying abroad from each graduating class has increased from 7.7% in 2001 to its current level. The total number of students who studied abroad was 155, with 20 students completing more than one study abroad experience. Thirty-three students studied in semester programs, and one student went abroad for a full academic year. Two thirds of the students studied on Meredith faculty-led programs, including
Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Panama, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Turkey and the United Kingdom. For more information on study abroad at Meredith, visit www.meredith.edu/ abroad.