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Monday, June 08, 2009
Lamar University reaches thousands online
Dr. Hollis Lowery-Moore, dean of the College of Education and Human Development, said the university lost about 500 students because of Hurricane Rita in 2005, before Lamar’s partnership with Higher Ed Holdings began. The story was different when Hurricane Ike pummeled southeast Texas in 2008, when the online platform was in place. “After Ike, we had the distance learning option and those students didn’t miss a beat,” Lowery-Moore said.
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