Grantham University

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Grantham University (GU)
Motto: "Striving to provide a premier online education experience"
Established: 1951
Type: Private For-profit
President: J. Patrick Campbell
Provost: Gary R. Sutter, PhD
Dean: Greg Garcia, PhD
Students: 9,000
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Campus: suburb
Colors: Yellow and blue
Mascot: Fighting Eagles
Website: Grantham

Grantham University is a higher education institution based in Kansas City, Missouri, that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in technology related fields, primarily by distance education. It was once called Grantham College of Engineering.

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[edit] History

The school was established in Southern California on January 2, 1951.

Grantham's developed distance education programs and as demand for distance education increased, it consolidated its residential campuses into one location just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1991. It began offering degree programs in the late 1990s exclusively online until Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region in August 2005. Katrina destroyed over eighty percent of Grantham University’s buildings. Grantham University had been planning to open a satellite campus in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to Kansas City seven days after the hurricane hit. [1]

Grantham University is located on 30,000 square feet in a suburb of Zona Rosa. Total enrollment in 2006 was 9,000 (undergraduate and graduate) students. Grantham University’s Library Resource Center provides Grantham students 24/7 access to the full text of over 33,000 books and 2,500 journals.[1]

[edit] Academic programs

Grantham’s programs include Business Administration (MBA), Criminal Justice, Homeland Security, Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Electronics Engineering Technology, General Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies, Information Technology, Information Management, and Project Management.

[edit] Accreditation

Grantham University is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council to give degrees for both undergraduate and graduate programs. [1] Because Grantham University does not have regional accreditation, some regionally accredited schools may be reluctant to accept Grantham's credits in transfer or recognize their degrees for entry into graduate programs.[2][3][4][5] Grantham University is a member of the American Council on Education (ACE) and a member of Council for Higher Education Accreditation(CHEA) and has several other affiliations of Higher Education including: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRO), United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) and Servicemembers Opportunity Consortium SOC.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Grantham University website
  2. ^ Demanding Credit, Inside Higher Education website, dated Oct. 19, 2005 by Scott Jaschik
  3. ^ Tussling Over Transfer of Credit, Inside Higher Education website, February 26, 2007 by Doug Lederman
  4. ^ What is the Difference Between Regional and National Accreditation, Yahoo! Education website
  5. ^ About.com Distance Learning What You Need to Know About DETC Accreditation, Jamie Littlefield

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