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BY JORDAN BLUM
Capitol News Bureau
November 29, 2011
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The Southern University System will soon start offering more fully online academic programs to attract more students and to raise tuition revenues, Southern System President Ronald Mason Jr. said.
The new online project is a revenue-sharing partnership with a for-profit corporation that specializes in delivering online degree programs for historically black colleges and universities, called HBCUs.
Mason said the project — gotosouthernuniversity.com — will help Southern attract more out-of-state and older, nontraditional students who are currently the niche of more expensive for-profit universities like the University of Phoenix.
The Southern University System has contracted with Florida-based Education Online Services Corporation, or EOServe, to deliver the online degree programs using the existing offerings and faculty from the Southern campuses in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport. Mason previously teamed with EOServe, when he was president of Jackson State University.
But Mason said the new partnership will be more comprehensive than the one he helped do in Mississippi.
“We want to develop Southern University as the online HBCU brand,” Mason said. “We are a (university) system, and we can offer more courses. We’re looking at something a little broader and a little more aggressive here.”
http://theadvocate.com/home/1386156-125/su-online-program-to-expand.html
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BY JORDAN BLUM
Capitol News Bureau
November 29, 2011
0 COMMENTS
The Southern University System will soon start offering more fully online academic programs to attract more students and to raise tuition revenues, Southern System President Ronald Mason Jr. said.
The new online project is a revenue-sharing partnership with a for-profit corporation that specializes in delivering online degree programs for historically black colleges and universities, called HBCUs.
Mason said the project — gotosouthernuniversity.com — will help Southern attract more out-of-state and older, nontraditional students who are currently the niche of more expensive for-profit universities like the University of Phoenix.
The Southern University System has contracted with Florida-based Education Online Services Corporation, or EOServe, to deliver the online degree programs using the existing offerings and faculty from the Southern campuses in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport. Mason previously teamed with EOServe, when he was president of Jackson State University.
But Mason said the new partnership will be more comprehensive than the one he helped do in Mississippi.
“We want to develop Southern University as the online HBCU brand,” Mason said. “We are a (university) system, and we can offer more courses. We’re looking at something a little broader and a little more aggressive here.”
http://theadvocate.com/home/1386156-125/su-online-program-to-expand.html
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