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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Some Students Displaced by Katrina Say a Special Distance-Education Program Was Academic Lifesaver - JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Chronicle of Higher Education
Within days of the storm's devastation, a catalog of courses was up and ready for registration, through the leadership of the Southern Regional Education Board, which has 16 member states, and the Sloan Consortium, which promotes standards for online learning (The Chronicle, September 6). The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave $1.1-million to support the project. Many of the participating colleges had to make emergency pleas to their governing boards to let them waive tuition for the online programs. The courses were delivered on an accelerated schedule that began on October 10 and is scheduled to end on Friday.... "You know how much delay can side-rail a career," said Shari McCurdy, associate director of the office of technology-enhanced learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield, who taught one of the Sloan Semester courses. "You get interrupted, and you don't get back to it, or you find it harder to go back each time it's interrupted." "I think it's the role of higher education," she says, "to step in and take on the challenge and meet the needs of these students."
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