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Online Classes Offer Convenience To Gulf Coast Students - Ayinde O. Chase - All Headline News Staff Writer
A new trend in academic education is online courses. These courses, taken by college students seeking freedom and flexibility, now prove a lifesaver for students in the battered gulf coast. Thirty-one-year-old Polita Ebanks was taking her final semester of nursing pre-requisite courses at Nunez Community College when she fled Hurricane Katrina with her husband and three children. Though her family safely evacuated, her home was destroyed. "At first I thought my plans, my hopes and my dreams were gone," said Ebanks. "But a wonderful family from a local church here in Memphis, where we have been living since evacuating, gave me a computer and I just took my first quiz online.” Sloan Semester allows students affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to continue their studies and return to their home institutions next term. The special 8-week accelerated semester offers a wide range of courses to serve the learning needs of students at the community college, university and graduate level, regardless of academic discipline.
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