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• Which Wheaton? Hate mail rekindles confusion of 2 colleges
• Negotiating the Many Definitions of Hybrid, Online Classes
• Oakland restaurateur donates percentage of sales to local schools
• 3 victims of Honduras bus crash were college students, nurse

Which Wheaton? Hate mail rekindles confusion of 2 colleges Posted: 15 Jan 2016 06:59 AM PST NORTON, Mass. (AP) — The angry emails came in a flurry to the president's office at Wheaton College, a small, picturesque campus near Boston. But they all shared one simple mistake. They were sent to the wrong Wheaton.

Negotiating the Many Definitions of Hybrid, Online Classes Posted: 15 Jan 2016 06:30 AM PST While traditional instruction requires no further explanation, increasingly the lines between hybrid and online courses have become blurred. For example, at some institutions, if a class meets in person just once, it is listed as hybrid. Other institutions use the definition of an online course originally established by the Sloan Consortium, now called the Online Learning Consortium, as the tipping point to determine hybrid or online status: that 80 percent of the content must be delivered online.

Oakland restaurateur donates percentage of sales to local schools Posted: 14 Jan 2016 05:51 PM PST An Oakland restaurant owner is donating a percentage of his sales to Oakland public schools and he's hoping other restaurant owners will follow.

3 victims of Honduras bus crash were college students, nurse Posted: 14 Jan 2016 11:05 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — The two New York college students and a nurse practitioner who died in a bus crash in Honduras while volunteering in the Central American country were bighearted, dedicated and caring, people who knew them said Thursday.

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