...IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION HEATHER PERROW, Plaintiff, v. GRAND CANYON EDUCATION, INC., and GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY, INC., Defendants. : : : : : : : : : : : Case No. 2:09-cv-670 JUDGE MARBLEY Magistrate Judge Kemp OPINION AND ORDER I. INTRODUCTION This matter is before the Court on Defendant Grand Canyon Education, Inc.’s (“GCE”) Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction (Doc. 4) and Renewed Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction (Doc. 21), and Defendant Grand Canyon University, Inc.’s (“GCU”) Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction (Doc. 6) and Renewed Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction (Doc. 22). For the reasons stated below, Defendants’ Motions are DENIED. II. BACKGROUND A. FACTUAL BACKGROUND GCE is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Phoenix, Arizona. GCU is an online university also based in Phoenix. GCE is the owning and operating entity of GCU. Plaintiff Heather Perrow enrolled in online courses offered by GCU after conducting an online search for web-based degree programs. (Perrow Aff. at ¶ 5.) Perrow got in touch with an enrollment counselor, Mr. Brand, who assisted her in filling out the requisite forms for enrollment and financial assistance. (Id. at ¶ 7.) Perrow was informed that the program she had selected, the Master of Arts in Teaching Program of Study, was the appropriate program for her educational background. (Id.) Perrow was assigned a username, password...
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...Midwestern University decides to enforce its alcohol policy against A & B? To begin my analysis of this case I would first like to point out the fact that A, B, and C have all violated the state laws of Ohio in regard to underage drinking as the legal age to drink in Ohio from my knowledge and the case facts are 21 years of age. The alcohol policies at institutions of higher education mimic the state law of its location. At a minimum, the law requires colleges to: • “Provide students with information about the laws regulating alcohol and drug use, • Institute penalties for breaking local, state, federal, and campus rules, • Publicize the health risks associated with the abuse of alcohol, and • Make counseling, treatment, or rehabilitation programs available to the students” (FindLaw)...
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...Assignment 2: Public University Analysis Professor JoEtta Malone Course Title ACC410006VA016-1126-001 September 3, 2012 One benefit that many employees either have or wish they had is contribution into a pension or retirement plan. From an accounting view point, there are many guidelines that need to be followed for companies or universities with these plans. The GASB has proposed changes recently that will affect the pension liability on the financial statements of universities and other non-profits. I have looked at the financial statements of the Ohio State University. The Ohio State University has two basic retirement plans available to their employees. The most popular plan is “covered by the Public Employees System of Ohio (OPERS)”. Their second plan is one in which the employee can “participate in” an “Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP)”. The major difference between the two is the OPERS is a defined benefit plan which includes contributions made by the employee, contribution matches made by the university and also other fringe benefits offered to their members. The ARP is a defined contribution plan that only includes contributions made by the employee and contribution matches made by the university. GASB has provided guidelines for Statement No. 67 and Statement No. 68 which make universities and non-profits account for future obligations...
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...starting a new student organization on the Kent State campus this year. This student organization is called a HPAC. A HPAC is a Health Professionals Affinity Community. The Health Professions Affinity Community (HPAC) is a newly designed pipeline program to engage students and advance their academic and career progress toward health professions. The program relies on existing community assets and bundling them in a manner that further supports student success. Students from varied circumstances can benefit from opportunities to apply academic learning in real-world circumstances and from learning how to employ existing and at times hidden personal and community resources to improve their community. The goals, strategies, and methods reflected in the HPAC program are consistent with finding ways to better meet the vast needs of the region, of finding and supporting qualified “Ohio” grown students from diverse backgrounds desiring to enter health professions. The key principle of the program is that students increase their academic scholarship, understand the value of research, further engage in the community, and become well prepared young adults who are able to achieve a level of preparation compatible with their health career aspirations. The mission of HPAC is advancing the health and success of students and their communities through mutual learning and engagement enriched by health professions education, workforce, and community partnerships. As a new student organization,...
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...1% Student Papers: N/A include quoted include bibliography exclude small matches download refresh print mode: 1% match (publications) Kim, S. H., A. Yu, J. H. Jung, Y. J. Lee, and E.-S. Lee. "Incidence and Risk Factors of 30-Day Early and 90-Day Late Morbidity and Mortality of Radical Cystectomy During a 13-Year Follow-up: A Comparative Propensity-score Matched Analysis of Complications Between Neobladder and Ileal Conduit", Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2014. Calene Roseman NUR / 544 Nursing Research Utilization Project August 18, 2014 Dr. Margarret Colucceillo 2 Nursing Research Utilization Project Proposal Clinical issue: The improvement of morbidity and improved recovery for patients with bladder cancer. Undergoing radical cystectomy with ileal conduit (Castle. & Pruthi,2013) The problem that I identified and needs a solution is the improvement of post-operative outcomes and morbidity for bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy with ileal conduit (Kim.Yu.Jung.Lee.& Lee.2013)With the aim to discharge patients using fast track and clinical pathways and improve quality of life and morbidity. Radical cystectomy is a serious and extensive surgery not without risk and complications, hence the fact that complications occurs frequently. (Kulkarni. 2011) the standard care for bladder cancer is cystectomy. (Kulkarni.2011) During this major surgery the bladder is removed along with seminal vesicles, the prostate and lymph nodes (Ohio State University...
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...Zero-Tolerance Team Feasibility Study: Lowering Drug Violations On Campus Kelsey L. Jones Feasibility Study: Lowering Drug Violations on Campus Technical Communications Joyce Gorgan March 26, 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................4 Introduction.................................................................................................................................5 Research Methods.......................................................................................................................6 Results.........................................................................................................................................8 Criminal Background Check Process..........................................................................................8 Cost.................................................................................................................8 Effectiveness...................................................................................................9 Legality...........................................................................................................9 Undercover Police Officers.........................................................................................................9 Cost...................................................................................................
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...legislators do not address the impacts to organizations, leaving the actual implementation to the end user (i.e., public and private schools). In this particular case, Wittenburg University (WU) is faced with the decision of whether to develop and deliver a Master of Arts degree in classroom leadership. 1.) Build the management-research question hierarchy for this opportunity. The initial step in the research is the creation of a management-research question hierarchy, to formalize the process. For this case study, the management-research hierarchy is presented in Appendix A. The purpose of this hierarchy is to examine the various stages of the research question and present a logical sequence of increasing focus that will allow the development of a survey instrument that can be delivered to potential program applicants. The initial stage is to identify and state the management dilemma, which in this case is the impending new legislation. The State of Ohio intends to require all licenced teachers to have, or complete, a master’s degree before obtaining their second licensure to teach. Given that this is new legislation and WU is not obligated to offer a program, the “management dilemma” actually presents an opportunity for WU to develop a new degree program, thereby increasing revenue for the university. The second stage of the process is to identify the management questions. In this case, WU needs to decide what purpose would the new program serve?; would this program duplicate...
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...INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT: TERM PAPER (20 MARKS) 1.1 Term Paper Topic The students for this course are required to write a term paper on Management and Leadership. Suggested topics: a. Functions of Management b. Leadership versus Management c. Contingency Leadership theories d. Social exchange theory and strategic contingencies theory e. Transformational Leadership f. Transactional Leadership g. Charismatic Leadership h. Servant Leadership i. The mirror or the window: Level 5 leadership j. Strategic Leadership k. Ethical Leadership l. Leader Member Exchange (LMX)Theory m. Values based leadership n. Leadership and Ethics o. Leadership and Governance p. Leadership and Motivation q. Leadership and Gender r. Leadership in Family owned businesses s. Leadership and Management of Change t. From Change management to change leadership u. Team Leadership v. Performance management w. Impact of effective leadership and management behaviour of employees x. University of Iowa leadership styles y. University of Michigan and Ohio State University leadership models z. Ohio State University leadership model and the leadership grid aa. Power, Influence, Politics, Networking and Negotiation bb. Cross cultural Management cc. Team Leadership dd. Diversity at the workplace ee. The learning organization ff. Conflict gg. Coaching and mentoring at the workplace 1.2 Term Paper Structure The term paper structure and format should include the following: EXECUTIVE...
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...Funding for Colleges and Universities: Overcoming the Lack in State Appropriations Emilee Sides Arkansas State University Abstract As higher education enrollment increases, the ability for states to provide sufficient funding to their institutions decreases. This paper will examine a variety of practices that colleges and universities can use to offset the shortage of appropriations. These courses of action include tuition increases, attempting to increase enrollment through out-of-district campaigning, finding additional charitable donations, partnering with private companies, and looking at unconventional bond issuing. Each method of fund-raising has its own advantages and disadvantages. All of these methods, along with their benefits and drawbacks will be discussed. According to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (2012), enrollment for colleges and universities has experienced an overall growth of 16.9 percent since 2006 and an overall growth of about 33 percent in the last ten years (p 19). While this should be good news for higher education, unfortunately, state appropriations have not matched this exciting growth in enrollment. According to the report, appropriations per FTE dropped from an all-time high in 2001 of $8,316 to $6,290 in 2011 – lower than any year since 1980. This data indicates that while school must serve a growing number of students, they have fewer resources with which to serve each individual. Obviously...
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...called Jeni’s Ice Cream is not bound to these, for they have a line out the door every night even when it is below freezing outside. The rapidly expanding business has stores in over for states from the Midwest to the Southeast. The company prides itself on its diversity, organic, local atmosphere, and cultured characteristics, boasting that, “We create ice creams we fall madly in love with, that we want to bathe in, that make us see million-year-old stars. We devour it out of Mason jars, coffee mugs—whatever we can get our hands on. Handmade American ice cream = Bliss with a big B. Every single thing we put in our ice cream is legit. Generic chemist-built ice cream bases and powdered astronaut-friendly gelato mixes? No, ma’am. We build every recipe from the ground up with luscious, grass-grazed Ohio milk. With that exquisite base, we explore pure flavor in whatever direction moves us at any moment, every day, all year.” For our industry analysis, we will discuss the history of Jeni’s Ice Cream, what makes the company so unique from other competitors, a macro analysis of their stores and distribution, as well as the ice cream industry as a whole, and the future of this highly successful entrepreneurial firm. The company was founded by Jeni Bauer, a former student of The Ohio State University, started her famous ice cream franchise in 2002, and opened her first official parlor in 2006. Bauer has spent over a decade perfecting her legendary recipe and the franchise along with...
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...African-Americans who had grown angry and frustrated over the slow rate of their social and economic progress. They were now finally prepared to realize their potential force in order to exercise a decisive measure of political control over their own lives. Consequently, several African-American mayors of major cities, especially in the industrial North, were elected opening the floodgates of other African-American elected officials throughout the nation, including city council-members, aldermen, school board members, governors and presidents. After winning the primary and the general election with 95 percent of the African-American vote (At the same time, Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio), Richard G. Hatcher became the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana, and the first in the state of Indiana. He was elected in November 1967 and inaugurated in January 1968. Hatcher served an unprecedented five terms and as one of the beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Movement, he set the tone and was used as the standard by which many African-American mayors, that came after him, throughout the nation, were evaluated or criticized. Hatcher broke the racial glass ceiling for a host of African-American mayors who followed him. In the light of this watershed moment, it is the purpose of this paper to analyze how Richard Gordon Hatcher became the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana. For this critical examination, the 1967 Mayoral election has been selected. This historic...
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...analyzed the article titled, “Technology could ease textbook costs: Studies show students are slow to embrace new methods of learning” by Christopher Magan, 2010. This article explains how advances in technology are not as welcomed, as it should. In the analysis of this article, I will determine the research and purpose of the article, as well as discuss the complications under examination, the used methods of inquiries, and the completion of the research. An association professor of communication at Wright State University, Lynn Disbrow, received an award recently by the Ohio Board of Regents (Magan, 2010). This award was in recognition for her digitally making speaker notes, which reduced the cost of materials from $90 to $35. That enabled students the same supplementary material at a much cheaper price. The reality of the textbook market is that with the invention of tablets and net books, traditional textbooks will lose some market share to digital print. Many universities have already begun this transition. For as quickly as students accept technology trends such as social networking, studies show that students are slower to transition to digital textbooks. The Student Watch put together a study in 2010 which revealed seventy-four percent of students would rather use printed textbooks. As many as 60% of students were unaware that their textbooks were available to them digitally. Students use printed textbooks from the onset of primary education; this thought process stays...
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...ENI’s Turnaround & Transformation Model INTRODUCTION Since 1973, Evans Newton Incorporated (ENI) has partnered with educational agencies to provide custom educational solutions that improve student achievement. Designed in 1988, the TargetTeach* Five-Step Process has been continually adapted to the instructional innovations and performance requirements of the U.S. educational system. Today the theoretical and empirical bases of the TargetTeach design are established by independent research and program evaluations that demonstrate its capability to provide the support that schools need as they struggle to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). These evaluations and research verify that TargetTeach negates the socioeconomic and subgroup challenges that schools face in making AYP. THEORETICAL BASE OF ENI’S TURNAROUND & TRANSFORMATION MODEL The TargetTeach Five-Step Process is a design-based intervention program built upon “a „logic model‟ that describes the „theory of action‟” that determines each implementation (Rowan, Correnti, Miller, & Camburn 2009): TargetTeach Five Step Process instructional practice instructional leadership student achievement TargetTeach focuses on both the short-term and long-term results that ENI customers seek as outcomes of their school reform endeavors. A school‟s instructional leadership interrelates with its patterns of instructional practice to comprise a system of transformation...
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...Advances in Metal Forming Research at the Center for Precision Forming - Industry/University Cooperation – T. Altan, P. Sartkulvanich, N. Kardes The Center for Precision Forming (CPF), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Abstract The demand for application for lightweight materials such as Ultra/Advanced High Strength Steels (U/AHSS), aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and boron steels in automotive industry is increasing to reduce vehicle weight and increase crash performance. The use of these relatively new materials requires advanced and reliable techniques to a) obtain data on material properties and flow stress, b) predicting springback and fracture in bending and flanging, c) selecting lubricants and die materials/coatings for stamping and forging and d) designing tools for blanking and shearing. In addition, designing the process and tooling for a) hot stamping of boron steels, b) warm forming of Al and Mg alloys, and c) optimizing the use of servo-drive presses require advanced Finite Element based simulation methods. CPF is conducting R&D in most of these topics and also in many hot and cold forging related topics. This paper gives an overview of this research and discusses how the research results are applied in cooperation with industry. Keywords: Metal Forming, Sheet metal, Forging, FEM 1 INTRODUCTION The Center for Precision Forming (CPF) has been established with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a number of companies (www.cpforming...
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...percent of employers planned to hire business school graduates with this degree. Full-time master in accountingprograms usually take one year to complete and accept students fresh out of undergrad. The job hunt for many of these students begins before they step foot on campus. "We can connect with the students that have been accepted into the program – immediately – and start working with them and preparing them for fall recruiting," says Andy Rabitoy, director for undergraduate career services at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, which also works with students pursuing a master of professional accounting. His office helps students with several job-related needs such as interview preparation and fine-tuning their resumes. Incoming graduate accounting students at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University are put in touch with the career services office over the summer to sharpen their cover letters and perfect other skills that may help secure a job, says Stephen Singer, director of career management and corporate relations at Fisher. Classes begin Aug. 27 and on-campus recruiting begins the first week of September. "It's a very robust recruiting cycle," he says. Two-thirds of recruiting for students in the program takes place in the fall, he says. Most of these students are gearing up to work within one of two career paths at a public accounting firm such as KPMG or Deloitte; a small percentage will go work in other areas that leverage...
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