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January 2010

In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program

by Marc Parry The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects, leaving some worried about a vacuum of support for open-source ventures. Mellon’s decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a course-management

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U.S. Department of Education Issues Final Rules on Accreditation.

On October 27, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued final regulations relating to accreditation, covering key topics such as distance education, transfer of credit, accreditor disclosures to ED, substantive change, accreditors’ monitoring of institutions and programs, and due process. 74 Fed. Reg. 55,414. The final regulations implement Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) provisions pertinent

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Strategic Initiatives

“Developing Strategic Initiatives in Education and building educational institutions around the world is a cornerstone program for the Gilfus Education Group”, said Stephen Gilfus, Principal at the Gilfus Education Group, “Our team looks forward to working with various countries in developing their educational initiatives and institutions and bringing them into the 21st century.”

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