Colorado State University to Open New Online College

Colorado State University is planning a new online college aimed at helping non-traditional students and college drop outs complete their degrees. The Denver Post reports:

"CSU president Larry Penley said he envisions the online school reaching those people who have been working or raising families and can't easily attend a traditional college.

"The rates for younger people to go to college are not as high as they are for people my age," Penley said. "There is a need to turn this around. . . . And we don't have the money across the country to provide the kind of bricks-and-mortar institutions to deal with all these people."

CSU Global Campus will have its own faculty who will tailor work to individual students. What makes the school unique is its emphasis on reaching at-risk populations. Courses will be timed, and tests scheduled. Degrees will be created based on the marketplace demand - like a master's in online learning."

The new online public school is planned to offer lower tuition rates than many private programs. It will primarily serve adult learners who did not attend college after high school or who dropped out before completing a degree.

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Scholar Saluted

Dr. Barbara Beyerbach, a professor of curriculum and instruction at SUNY Oswego, will be honored as one of 20 SUNY Outstanding Researchers/Scholars at a dinner April 14 at the SUNY University at Albany.(Via www.oswego.edu)

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