DeVry University is bringing two electronic and computer degree programs to the East Valley and has set up two high-tech labs to support the effort.

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DeVry University is offering free workshops to high school students preparing for college entrance exams. The first will be 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at the DeVry campus, 1201 S. Alma School Road, Suite 5450, Mesa. For information, call (602) 749-4571 or email cdudoit@devry.edu.

Test your strength, speed, precision and agility and observe demonstrations from Olympians and Paralympians — including bobsledder Elana Meyers and swimmer Anna Johannes — at the only Road to London Tour stop in Arizona.

While Arizona’s public universities scramble to deal with an impending flood of students over the next 15 years, private institutions eagerly await the overflow.

The North Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce held its first ribboncutting Friday, celebrating the relocation of DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management to its new home in the Scottsdale Airpark.

New legislation pushed through a House panel Tuesday would give $2,000 annual scholarships to attend private colleges to the first 4,100 students who applied.

“Amazing Women Needed for High Paying Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).” Now this is a message that grabs your attention! Exciting our future engineers, scientists and innovators is critical to the future of our economy, yet enticing women to these fields is falling behind. According to various sources, including “Economics and Statistics Administration,” women are underrepresented in these high-paying, creative fields. The numbers indicate that in the U.S., women have held only 25 percent of STEM jobs over the last decade. A 2011 report by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce found that only one in seven engineers is a female.

Arizona private colleges and universities contribute more than $516 million to the state’s economy while employing more than 18,000 people each year, an independent study conducted by Scottsdale-based Applied Economics shows.

Amy Elizabeth Barlow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Barlow of Ahwatukee Foothills, was married Saturday, Nov. 27 in St. Benedict Catholic Church in Phoenix, to John Joseph Vaughan, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Vaughan of Chandler. The Rev. Gary Regula officiated at the ceremony, which was followed by a reception at the Arizona Grand Resort Hotel. The bride graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and is employed by Northwest Mutual Financial in Phoenix. The bridegroom graduated from DeVry University in Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science degree in Project Management.

It pays to get in line — and do it quickly — if you’re planning to go to college next year at one of the state’s private schools.

It pays to get in line — and do it quickly — if you’re planning to go to college next year at one of the state’s private schools.

Two East Valley high school teams have made it through two rounds of a local TV quiz show and will compete for the championship, laptops and bragging rights.

Michael Reagan will take over today as Scottsdale justice of the peace after weeks of preparation.

When America West Airlines merges with US Airways later this year, the new company will fly under the US Airways banner because it is the better known brand in most of the United States.

As the first day of school approaches, parents of tweens and teens are busy loading up on notebooks and mechanical pencils, buying jumbo packages of lunchtime snacks, shopping for just the right clothing and filling the family calendar with concerts, practice and game dates.

In an ideal world, every undergraduate student would be interning this summer. But in the practical world of your own competing life demands, not to mention the ups and downs of the internship market and overall economy, you may well find yourself internshipless right now.

Saturday Night Live comedian Jimmy Fallon’s pompous “The Computer Guy” — that snotty high-tech computer geek who considered himself far above us low-techies — would never get a job with GC Tech Company of Chandler.

Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs gave her state of the city address Wednesday at the Glendale Chamber of Commerce’s Business Appreciation Luncheon, saying she is confident Glendale is in a good position to deal with what remains of the economic donwturn.

Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs gave her state of the city address Wednesday at the Glendale Chamber of Commerce’s Business Appreciation Luncheon, saying she is confident Glendale is in a good position to deal with what remains of the economic donwturn.

This school in Tempe doesn’t have a football team, cheerleaders or a marching band. But it does provide an unusual service in a world of high-tech education: teaching its students to provide mobile entertainment.

High school students have always participated in academic competitions. But now, teams from Arizona high schools can compete on TV for the chance to win laptop computers and money for their school.