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WebCT (Course Tools) or Blackboard Learning System, [1] now owned by Blackboard, is an online proprietary virtual learning environment system that is licensed to colleges and other institutions and used in many campuses for e-learning. To their WebCT courses, instructors can add such tools as discussion boards, mail systems, and live chat ...
Blackboard Learn (previously the Blackboard Learning Management System) is a web-based virtual learning environment and learning management system developed by Blackboard Inc. The software features course management, customizable open architecture , and scalable design that allows integration with student information systems and authentication ...
[83] [84] Blackboard Mobile allows students to both access course materials, check grades, participate in discussions, [83] [85] [86] and to access information about campus life and services. [ 87 ] The company began providing its Blackboard Connect service in 2008, [ 31 ] for use by school districts and higher education institutions to send ...
The Hofstra Chronicle is the only student newspaper at Hofstra University. Established in 1935 and supported by the student activity fee and advertising, [57] it is published in tabloid format every Tuesday evening each semester, with additional content available online. [58]
A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.
Approximately 60 graduate students are enrolled in the various graduate programs. A co-op program initiated in the spring of 2015 offers upper level students the opportunity to work full-time for six to eight months at competitive salaries for one of over 200 high-tech companies, [ 5 ] mainly in the New York metropolitan area.
Randy Levine, Hofstra Law School, 1980; Senior Counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, LLP; President of the New York Yankees; Jen Pawol, baseball umpire; previously an All-American softball player for the Hofstra Pride softball team [6]
The Frank G. Zarb School of Business, located at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, [1] is noted for its dual AACSB accreditations in business and accounting. The school is named after alumnus Frank Zarb, '57 B.B.A., '62 M.B.A., who was the chair and CEO of the National Association of Securities Dealers and a senior partner of Lazard Freres & Co.