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Bisk Education is proud to announce that Judith A. Dwyer, Ph.D., has joined the company in the new position of Chief Academic Officer (CAO). With this addition, Bisk expands on its ongoing commitment to growth and leadership in the field of best-in-class online higher education services. The CAO position solidifies the company’s commitment to academia, as Dr. Dwyer will work closely with industry experts and academic leaders to ensure that Bisk and associated universities stay at the forefront of current and emerging online education trends. In addition, Dr. Dwyer will create and maintain strategic partnerships with top-tier universities as Bisk continues to provide the services necessary for them to advance their mission of academic excellence and expand their enrollment.

Adam Smith Esq., a management consulting firm to the global legal industry, today announced the launch of JD Match, the first-ever online recruiting service designed to address the dysfunctional law student hiring process with a more efficient system. The service is membership based and is open to all law students, law firms and law schools in the U.S.

The new online solution uses a proprietary matching algorithm and other features to...

Opera superstars Mignon Dunn, Ruth Falcon, and Sherrill Milnes are confirmed to be the master vocalists at the Vocal Arts and Music Festival, which will be presented by the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, June 18-July 1. The Vocal Arts and Music Festival, formerly known as Viva Virginia, is in its second year at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

Vocal masters Mignon Dunn, mezzo-soprano; Ruth Falcon, soprano; and Sherrill Milnes, baritone, have performed for a collective 90 plus years on the world’s most celebrated stages, from the San Francisco Opera in California and the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Royal Opera at Covent Garden in London, the Paris Opera, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, and more. Milnes has won three Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of five times. Today Dunn, Falcon, and Milnes are in high demand as vocal faculty, artistic directors, and advisors.

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StraighterLine (http://www.straighterline.com) announced today the StraighterLine Scholarship for Working Moms. In honor of Mother’s Day, the new scholarship is designed to help working moms who are going back to school defray some of the costs of their education by starting their degree with online college classes.

scrible, Inc., the leading innovator in online reading and research technology, announced its launch today with $500,000 in additional funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). scrible released its novel web application into public beta to advance a new way of working with online information. The cloud-based service allows Internet users to richly annotate web pages in any browser and manage and collaborate on them online.