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| Motto: | "Striving to provide a premier online education experience" |
| Established: | 1951 |
| Type: | Private For-profit |
| President: | J. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point For-profit schools are Educational institutions that are run by private profit-seeking Companies or Organizations, selling education to those who want to University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within a University, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Patrick Campbell |
| Provost: | Gary R. Provost is the title of a senior Academic administrator at many institutions of Higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent 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. In Academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit or over a specific area of concern or both The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation Verb "studēre" Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages Missouri ( or) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee The United States of America —commonly referred to as the South San Jose (cropjpg||thumb|A suburban development in San Jose California. School colors are the Colors chosen by a School to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification The term mascot – defined as a term for any person animal or object thought to bring Luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Higher education is Education that is provided by universities, vocational universities, Community colleges Liberal arts colleges Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of Higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the Pedagogy and Andragogy, technology and instructional systems design It was once called Grantham College of Engineering.
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History
The school was established in Southern California on January 2, 1951. Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January
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. New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana It began offering degree programs in the late 1990s exclusively online until Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region in August 2005. Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States 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. A satellite campus is a Campus of a College or University that is physically detached from the main university or college area [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]
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. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines Criminal justice is the system of practices and organizations used by national and local governments directed at maintaining Social control, deterring The term homeland security refers to the broad national effort by all levels of government to protect its territory from hazards both internal and external natural and man-made Computer engineering (or Computer Systems Engineering) encompasses broad areas of both Electrical engineering and Computer science. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Engineering Technology ( ET) is a field of study which focuses on the applications of Engineering and modern technology rather than the theoretical Information technology ( IT) as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA is "the study design development implementation support Information management ( IM) is the collection and management of Information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences Project Management is the discipline of planning organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives
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. Educational accreditation is a type of Quality assurance process under which services and operations of an educational institution or program are evaluated by an external body The Distance Education and Training Council (DETC is a non-profit Educational accreditation agency in the United States specializing in the accreditation of Distance education [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. Regional accreditation is a term used in the United States to refer to the process by which one of several accrediting bodies each serving one of six defined geographic [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. Established in 1918 the American Council on Education (ACE is a United States organization comprising over 1800 accredited, degree-granting Colleges Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA is a United States organization of degree -granting colleges and universities
Colleges and schools
References
- ^ a b c Grantham University website
- ^ Demanding Credit, Inside Higher Education website, dated Oct. 19, 2005 by Scott Jaschik
- ^ Tussling Over Transfer of Credit, Inside Higher Education website, February 26, 2007 by Doug Lederman
- ^ What is the Difference Between Regional and National Accreditation, Yahoo! Education website
- ^ About.com Distance Learning What You Need to Know About DETC Accreditation, Jamie Littlefield
External links
- Official website
- GU Accreditation by U. S. Dept of Education Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs.
- Distance Education and Training Council DETC
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