OKCBiz.com - Education http://okc.biz/oklahoma/articles.sec-13-1-education.html <![CDATA[OCCC plans grand opening of community outreach branch - ]]> <![CDATA[UCO Small Business Development Center adds new locations in Edmond and Norman - ]]> Oklahoma City’s prime resource for small-business advisement is growing into metro-area suburbs.]]> <![CDATA[OCU names new law school dean - ]]> Judging by the pick for the new head of Oklahoma City University’s law school shows the university has a thing for judges. Already, Robert Henry, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, was lured from his post to serve as president of OCU.]]> <![CDATA[Science Museum Oklahoma receives $1 million gift - ]]> Science Museum Oklahoma is honored to announce they have received a $1 million gift from Love’s Travel Stops.]]> <![CDATA[Aisle see you - New project plans to document historic movie houses, which have been replaced by today’s megaplexes.]]> There was a time when people in Oklahoma City went to the movies seven days a week without hesitation. Jeff Moore, project director at the Oklahoma Museum of Music and Popular Culture, remembers his grandmother’s habit of jotting down what movie she had seen each day in her diary.]]> <![CDATA[Harding | Shelton offers scholarships to OKCU business students - ]]> Harding|Shelton Inc. is now offering two $5,000 scholarships to students of the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business. ]]> <![CDATA[OCU introduces graduate energy programs - ]]> Oklahoma City University’s Meinders School of Business has created two graduate programs in conjunction with local energy executives. ]]> <![CDATA[Map quest - The Oklahoma Historical Society is on a mission to scan its map collection, to preserve the many ways the state once looked]]> What did Oklahoma look like in 1492?]]> <![CDATA[$3 million granted to OUHSC - National Eye Institute provided the grant.]]> The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is the recipient of a $3 million grant from the National Eye Institute for research of blinding eye diseases. Dr. Robert E. Anderson, Director of Vision Research at the Dean McGee Eye Institute and Dean A. McGee Professor in the University of Oklahoma (OU) College of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology, serves as the principal investigator for the grant.]]> <![CDATA[Brown Mackie celebrates OKC grand opening - ]]> Oklahoma Lt. Gov Todd Lamb welcomed students to Brown Mackie College – where the average age is 29 – by telling them that he himself did not earn his law degree until later in life. No one will be leaving the college with a law degree, but one of six programs offers students the chance to earn a paralegal degree.]]> <![CDATA[Higher and higher ed - Tuition jumps for public and private colleges and universities in the metro.]]> As students return to campuses around the state, or start college for the first time, institutions will be charging more, due to high enrollment and cuts in state funding. Private universities also have raised prices in an attempt to stay solvent. ]]> <![CDATA[Creative state - Leader combines education, business in new role as president of Creative Oklahoma ]]> Susan McCalmont’s educational background is in art history. In her business life, she has lobbied on Capitol Hill. Now, after 19 years as the executive director of the Kirkpatrick Foundation, McCalmont is taking her unique skill set to Creative Oklahoma as its first president.]]> <![CDATA[Online education company to expand with 50 new hires - Advanced Academics is expanding its Bricktown presence to improve service in 30 states]]> Advanced Academics plans to expand its presence in Bricktown and add 50 jobs in the coming months. The online learning company opened more than a decade ago and occupied space in the Kingman Building.]]> <![CDATA[ACM@UCO establishes business development center and advisory board - Aims to help students find opportunities in music after graduation]]> <![CDATA[OKC campus of Brown Mackie College nearly complete - School to be housed at former Brixton Square theater]]> Renovations are nearly complete at the former Brixton Square theater, 7101 NW Expressway, which will house the first local Brown Mackie College campus.]]> <![CDATA[Kinder-care - Local group says brain drain starts early for Oklahoma workforce]]> Oklahoma´s chief executive officers are realizing that investing in early childhood education today may be the best way to get a more qualified workforce tomorrow.]]> <![CDATA[Making the grade - Two very different metro-area schools move toward eco-friendly environments]]> For two Oklahoma City schools at opposite ends of the economic spectrum, students are learning in spaces designed to be not only aesthetically pleasing, but also environmentally friendly.]]> <![CDATA[Rose State hosts free tax-based business workshops - ]]> Federal and state tax training for small businesses will take place Dec. 6 at the Rose State College Professional Training Center.]]> <![CDATA[UCO receives $400,000 grant from Inasmuch Foundation - ]]> The UTPA is a partnership between UCO and Oklahoma City Public Schools which trains teachers for high-need urban schools.]]> <![CDATA[Compass briefs: Oklahoma City University Alumni Association honors grads - ]]> Honorees included law alumnus Carl Alexandre, business alumnus Frank Bruno, music alumnus Edgar Cruz and more.]]>