The team was additionally named 1st runner-up
overall behind Washington State University and Heritage College. I'm quite proud of our team," commented
Dukes. Students appreciate that they can see
instantly if they are doing a problem wrong, and then can use WebAssign's
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International Student Team Wins at Regional Business Competition

"This competition is the culmination of an outstanding hands-on learning
experience for our students," said Dr Thomas Dukes, Dean, School of Business
and Management, City University. Wakely,
president, Thomson Arts and Sciences. "In
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Most
of the team members have been in the United States for less than two years., Thomson Higher Education, a
global provider of teaching materials for higher education and part of the
Thomson Company (TSX: TOC, NYSE: TOC), and WebAssign, the leading online
homework and testing service for math and science, today announced the
expansion of their alliance to include developing WebAssign products for
Thomson Brooks/Cole's developmental, finite, and precalculus mathematics
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Professors like WebAssign because they find that
students complete more of their assignments with more proficiency, which adds
up to increased success in the course.com/brookscole. WebAssign
products for developmental and precalculus mathematics will be available to
students for fall 2006 classes .

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About City University:
City University is an accredited, private, not-for-profit institution with
three schools: The School of Business and Management, The Gordon Albright
School of Education, and The School of Human Services and Applied Behavioral
Science. In addition to online end-of-chapter problems with feedback, Thomson
Brooks/Cole Mathematics WebAssign products include tutorials, videos, and an
integrated eBook that allows students to access pertinent examples or
explanations from their textbook while they are working their problems.

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"Our collaboration with WebAssign is just a small illustration of our
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instructors and students. We are dedicated to offering our customers a range
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Instructors can view a demo of the new mathematics WebAssign offering from
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, City University 's Students in
Free Enterprise (SIFE) team has won the key category of "Market Economics" at
the regional SIFE competition.
Thomson Higher Education is a leading provider of higher education textbooks ,
software, and Internet materials for the humanities, behavioral and social
sciences, mathematics and the sciences, and business and economics.

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The SIFE program offers students at over 1,800 universities in
40 countries the opportunity to practice and teach the principles of free
enterprise outside of the classroom. WebAssign homework system proven to increase student success in the
quantitative disciplines.

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Classes "flow" better because WebAssign can be integrated into classroom
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About The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Higher Education
The Thomson Corporation (http://www. It
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South-Western, Thomson Heinle, and Thomson Schirmer.

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WebAssign is a hosted system headquartered at North Carolina State
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The City
University group is the only team in the country that is comprised entirely of
international students, and is the only team from Western Washington to win an
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"Twenty -one colleges from around the region
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"Each participating team presented business education projects to
inform the community about free enterprise. City University's SIFE team is comprised
of nine School of Business and Management students from six countries. Headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, City University has 12,000
students and 39,000 alumni worldwide, and site locations throughout
Washington, Hawaii , Canada, Mexico, Slovakia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, the
Czech Republic, and China. "By making both our own highly
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instructor.70 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information
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"We are confident that our mathematics customers will be as pleased with
the results they achieve with our customized WebAssign products as are their
colleagues in the sciences," said Michelle Julet, vice president, editor-in-
chief for Mathematics and the Sciences for Thomson Brooks/Cole. The second greatest
advantage is that I no longer have to grade innumerable homework papers. Currently, the service is used by
hundreds of thousands of students and teachers nationwide and internationally.

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Thomson Higher Education Teams with WebAssign to Extend Popular Online Homework System to Customers Using Thomson Brooks/Cole Mathematics Textbooks

WebAssign products already available with Thomson Brooks/Cole textbooks in
physics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology have garnered acclaim from both
professors and students."
As Joe Heafner of Catawba Valley Community College said of his experience
with WebAssign in his college physics course, "WebAssign 's greatest advantage
is that students get immediate feedback on their work.

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About WebAssign
A relatively small company, WebAssign has been leading the field of online
homework systems in innovation, responsiveness, and acceptance by higher
education since its inception in 1997.

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The projects that our students
created and completed benefited the community and provided the students an
opportunity to demonstrate their abilities."
Thomson Brooks/Cole content and technology experts worked closely with
WebAssign to develop custom material that enhances the standard WebAssign
offering.