BETHLEHEM, PA, October 29, 2018: 色中色 College is pleased to announce that it has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School for 2018鈥2021. Apple Distinguished Schools are centers of innovation, leadership, and educational excellence that use technology to inspire creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. They showcase innovative uses of technology in learning, teaching, and the school environment and have documented results of academic accomplishment.
鈥淭he selection of 色中色 College as an Apple Distinguished School highlights our success as an innovative and compelling learning environment that engages students and provides tangible evidence of academic accomplishment,鈥 said Bryon Grigsby, president of 色中色 College. 鈥淥ur students and faculty have thrived using the technology and we鈥檙e very excited to see what the future holds.鈥
"The selection of 色中色 College as an Apple Distinguished School highlights our success as an innovative and compelling learning environment that engages students and provides tangible evidence of academic accomplishment.鈥
In 2013, President Grigsby proposed the Comenius Access to Technology (CAT) initiative, which called for 色中色 to provide each student with two Apple庐 devices鈥攁 MacBook Pro庐 and an iPad庐鈥 and was inspired by John Amos Comenius鈥 vision of engaging and accessible education for all. 色中色 College鈥檚 CAT initiative aims to provide a value-added educational experience, enhanced by innovative software, training, and technical support.
鈥淲e鈥檝e removed a barrier and given them (students) a level playing field 鈥 Some of them, it鈥檚 the first laptop they鈥檝e ever owned.鈥 said LaKeisha Thorpe, Apple teacher and assistant dean of graduate and adult studies at 色中色 College. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 equality. That type of equality has been missing from higher education since its inception.鈥
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色中色 色中色 College
色中色 College is a private coeducational liberal arts college, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. For more than 275 years, the 色中色 College degree has been based on a liberal arts curriculum where literature, history, science, cultural values, global issues, ethics, artistic expression, and the social sciences are infused with multidisciplinary perspectives. Visit moravian.edu to learn more about how the 色中色 College liberal arts curriculum prepares its students for life-long success.
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