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Updates on: NBA Cares, Hendrix College, Concord School of Law, Alameda University, Harvard University, Education for Advancement, Virtual High School Global Consortium and Chetek High School

Through NBA Cares, Cisco will work with the NBA to provide New Orleans area school districts with educational and technological resources, and will create 30 family community resource centers. — CNN

Hendrix College alumni have always been passionate about their alma mater and now, thanks to their generous donations, the college has been able to increase its current capital campaign goal to an unprecedented $100 million. — Log Cabin Democrat

The online only Concord School of Law — which has managed to grow without ABA recognition — announced a merger with Kaplan University. In terms of corporate ownership, this isn’t much of a change — both Concord and Kaplan are divisions of Kaplan Inc., a major player in for-profit higher education. But because Kaplan University is regionally accredited (which Concord is not), the merger will make Concord students eligible for federal student loans and to defer repaying their past student loans when enrolled. — Inside Higher Ed

Almeda University provides opportunities not only to students who have always intended to go to college after high school. Many of Almeda University’s students aren’t freshly out of high school, but have been working within their career track and are looking to open more doors top opportunities within their industry. Many people pursuing growth in their career tracks find that they frequently achieve a middle-level position, with responsibility and financial comfort, but soon discover that they have reached the highest level possible with their level of education. To advance in their careers, they must upgrade their education. — PR Web

E-books and “old” books. Harvard University Library’s new director called on his staff yesterday to embrace the Internet and harness it for the “diffusion of scholarship.” Robert C. Darnton ’60, who studies the history of books and taught at Princeton before coming to Harvard this year, emphasized that libraries are not “warehouses of printed paper,” but “dynamic cultural centers.” — The Crimson

Education for Advancement (EFA), a Miami based company, now offers flexible distance and online degrees in Business Administration (MBA), Finance and Marketing from the University of Leicester, a top 20 UK university. For the first time, Caribbean people are now able to do more than just obtain associates, bachelors or master degrees from UK and US universities online. Now, they can also access a range of career planning and development services from a team of experts with over 40 years in the education business. — Antigua Sun

T.K. Stone has several students signed up for online classes through Virtual High School Global Consortium, an international program where students can take online classes not offered by their high schools. This is the first year the school has offered these classes. T.K. Stone is the only Kentucky school to use Virtual High School though there are other Kentucky schools and students that take online classes through other programs. — Elizabethtown News Enterprise

The School District of Chetek in Wisconsin has always prided itself on offering a variety of opportunities for students despite being a smaller school district. One of those opportunities has allowed hundreds of students going through the system to take advantage of the learning options program (LOP). The LOP was formally implemented approximately three years ago as a way to offer programs and courses to meet the varying educational needs of the students at Chetek High School. Today, the program has succeeded in both assisting at-risk students and enriching those who want to take advantage of whatever opportunities the school can afford to them. — The Chetek Alert