Do you experience sticker shock when you enter the bookstore to purchase books?  It is something that I have see time and again when I go to order books from the bookstore of my school.  Sometimes I have no choice but to purchase that book, but in these hard economic times I am always looking [...]

I mentioned earlier I would be talking about my journey to get back into school this Fall by detailing some of the steps that I have taken and the results.  At this point there really is not much to tell other than being a huge cheerleader for my alma mater Ashford University and distance learning [...]

One of the great things about technology today is the ability to disperse information in a quick fashion.  The letter below is in response to a possible ruling by the department of education to what schools can offer for both online and offline courses.  You can read more about it here.  If you would like [...]

I have decided that I will be started grad school in pursuit of my MBA with an Entrepreneur specialty at Ashford University in the Fall.  The stumbling block that I have encountered is finding some scholarship money.  Patting myself on the back for a minute, I graduated with a 3.90 GPA so I think that [...]

As an Ashford Alumni I couldn’t be more proud of my school and everything it will do to help out the men and women of the United States Army.
Ashford University has been selected by the U.S. Army for participation as a Letter-of-Instruction (LOI) school. As an LOI school, Ashford University will be [...]

This past weekend I attended the graduation ceremony in order to receive recognition of finishing my degree online from Ashford University.  Even though I received my actual diploma in the mail weeks ago attending the ceremony was more about the accomplishment than the piece of paper signifying that I complete my BA in Organizational Management.
The [...]

In Part One and Part Two of this three part series citations and parts of the overall paper were discussed.  In this final section I will cover the one area that some returning students may have the most difficulty with.  That part being the “voice” that they use while writing a college level research or [...]

Yesterday I talked about how different research papers on a college level can be.  Today I am going to go over the different elements that will make up and APA style paper.  Why APA?  The majority of papers turned in to distance learning institutions will follow the APA style.  Occasionally, on the graduate level MLA [...]

Do you remember footnotes, index cards and bibliographies?  If you do chances are the last time that you wrote a research paper was in the late 80’s or early 90’s.  During the time that most of us including me decided to work instead of going to school things changed in the way of writing term [...]

When it comes to distance learning there are many tools that can help but there are a few essential tools that even if you have a fundamental knowledge of you are virtually guaranteed success.  Just being aware that such things exist gives you a leg up.

Message boards – Think of Yahoo Groups on steroids.  Message [...]