Western Governors University
Western Governors University (WGU) is a private, not-for-profit, online American college situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. The college was established by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the thought was detailed at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association. The college utilizes a competency-based learning model, with understudies working on the web. Robert Mendenhall is the present college president. Its accreditation is through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
History
WGU was authoritatively established in 1997 in the United States by the governors of 19 U.S. states. It was initially proposed by then-legislative head of Utah Mike Leavitt at the yearly meeting of the Western Governors Association in June 1995. It was formally proposed the next November and authoritatively established in June 1996, with every marking state senator submitting $100,000 toward the dispatch of the new competency-based college. While the seed cash was given from government sources, the school was to be built up as a self-supporting private, not-for-profit foundation. In January 1997, 13 governors were close by to sign the articles of fuse formally starting the new college.
In 2001, the U S A administration of Education recompensed $10 million to establish the Teachers College, and the primary projects were offered in Information Technology. In 2003, the college turned into the principal school to be certify in four unique areas by the Interregional Accrediting Committee. In 2006, the fourth school, the College of Health Professions, was established, and the teachers College turned into the main online instructor readiness system to get NCATE accreditation. In 2010, the primary state-built up branch WGU Indiana, was established by Mitch Daniels, legislative head of Indiana, and the school achieved 20,000 understudies interestingly. In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $4.5 million to WGU Indiana and the production of WGU Texas and WGU Washington.
On January 8, 2013, Bill Haslam, legislative leader of Tennessee, reported the formation of the state-partnered WGU Tennessee. On January 28, 2013, Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri, in his yearly State of the State address, reported the establishing of WGU Missouri, making the fifth state-partnered grounds. Furthermore, on June 16, 2015, Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada dispatched WGU Nevada, the 6th state-based WGU. The state-partnered branches of WGU offer the same scholarly model, workforce, administrations, accreditation, educational cost, and educational module as WGU and were set up to give official state support and expanded name acknowledgment to WGU in those states; in any case, WGU has understudies and graduates in every one of the 50 expresses, the District of Columbia, U.S. domains, parts of Canada, and on U.S. army installations around the world.
Starting July 2015, the college had developed to almost 60,000 as of now enlisted studentsand more than 50,000 graduates.
History
WGU was authoritatively established in 1997 in the United States by the governors of 19 U.S. states. It was initially proposed by then-legislative head of Utah Mike Leavitt at the yearly meeting of the Western Governors Association in June 1995. It was formally proposed the next November and authoritatively established in June 1996, with every marking state senator submitting $100,000 toward the dispatch of the new competency-based college. While the seed cash was given from government sources, the school was to be built up as a self-supporting private, not-for-profit foundation. In January 1997, 13 governors were close by to sign the articles of fuse formally starting the new college.
In 2001, the U S A administration of Education recompensed $10 million to establish the Teachers College, and the primary projects were offered in Information Technology. In 2003, the college turned into the principal school to be certify in four unique areas by the Interregional Accrediting Committee. In 2006, the fourth school, the College of Health Professions, was established, and the teachers College turned into the main online instructor readiness system to get NCATE accreditation. In 2010, the primary state-built up branch WGU Indiana, was established by Mitch Daniels, legislative head of Indiana, and the school achieved 20,000 understudies interestingly. In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $4.5 million to WGU Indiana and the production of WGU Texas and WGU Washington.
On January 8, 2013, Bill Haslam, legislative leader of Tennessee, reported the formation of the state-partnered WGU Tennessee. On January 28, 2013, Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri, in his yearly State of the State address, reported the establishing of WGU Missouri, making the fifth state-partnered grounds. Furthermore, on June 16, 2015, Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada dispatched WGU Nevada, the 6th state-based WGU. The state-partnered branches of WGU offer the same scholarly model, workforce, administrations, accreditation, educational cost, and educational module as WGU and were set up to give official state support and expanded name acknowledgment to WGU in those states; in any case, WGU has understudies and graduates in every one of the 50 expresses, the District of Columbia, U.S. domains, parts of Canada, and on U.S. army installations around the world.
Starting July 2015, the college had developed to almost 60,000 as of now enlisted studentsand more than 50,000 graduates.
Scholastics
WGU involves four universities, every offering unhitched male's and graduate degree programs: the College of Business, the College of Information Technology, the Teachers College, and the College of Health Professions, which incorporates degrees in nursing. As of October 2014, 55 bachelor's, master's, and post-baccalaureate degree programs, and in addition educator underwriting arrangement projects, were offered among the four universities.
Terms comprise of six-month "moving" semesters, which begin for individual understudies on the first of consistently. Classes are relegated remarkable terms enduring six weeks however understudies might continue at their own pace. Numerous classes have "partners," or understudies working in the same general time span, to encourage online gatherings and discourses, however understudies in any given companion advancement to the following course when they can demonstrate their insight. Course tutors give both gathering and individual guideline and in addition directing online talks.
Rankings
WGU is unranked by US News and World Report's 2016 version of best universities. In 2015, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) evaluated WGU's auxiliary showing program its #1 best esteem in educator education[11] and the National League for Nursing named WGU's College of Health Professions a Center of Excellence. In 2014, US News, in its scholastic rankings of educator instruction programs in conjunction with NCTQ, positioned WGU #1 in the country for auxiliary instructor training among both online and customary colleges. In 2013, WGU was named one of the 50 most imaginative organizations in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies Issue, positioning #28 among driving organizations including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Target alongside such rising newcomers as Square, Fab, and Tumblr. As of late, WGU has been the country's top maker, as far as quantities of licensure graduates, of science and math teachers.WGU has additionally gotten the 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning from the United States Distance Learning Association quite a while running, among numerous different acknowledgments.
WGU involves four universities, every offering unhitched male's and graduate degree programs: the College of Business, the College of Information Technology, the Teachers College, and the College of Health Professions, which incorporates degrees in nursing. As of October 2014, 55 bachelor's, master's, and post-baccalaureate degree programs, and in addition educator underwriting arrangement projects, were offered among the four universities.
Terms comprise of six-month "moving" semesters, which begin for individual understudies on the first of consistently. Classes are relegated remarkable terms enduring six weeks however understudies might continue at their own pace. Numerous classes have "partners," or understudies working in the same general time span, to encourage online gatherings and discourses, however understudies in any given companion advancement to the following course when they can demonstrate their insight. Course tutors give both gathering and individual guideline and in addition directing online talks.
Rankings
WGU is unranked by US News and World Report's 2016 version of best universities. In 2015, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) evaluated WGU's auxiliary showing program its #1 best esteem in educator education[11] and the National League for Nursing named WGU's College of Health Professions a Center of Excellence. In 2014, US News, in its scholastic rankings of educator instruction programs in conjunction with NCTQ, positioned WGU #1 in the country for auxiliary instructor training among both online and customary colleges. In 2013, WGU was named one of the 50 most imaginative organizations in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies Issue, positioning #28 among driving organizations including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Target alongside such rising newcomers as Square, Fab, and Tumblr. As of late, WGU has been the country's top maker, as far as quantities of licensure graduates, of science and math teachers.WGU has additionally gotten the 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning from the United States Distance Learning Association quite a while running, among numerous different acknowledgments.
System
WGU has competency-based projects for finishing degree and testament prerequisites. Competency-based projects permit understudies to exhibit through appraisals that they have procured the arrangement of capabilities (levels of learning, aptitude, or capacity) required for a specific degree or declaration. WGU is the initially licensed school to utilize the competency-based methodology, driving a developing pattern toward competency-based advanced education. Previous United States Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan has expressed, "While such projects [like WGU] are currently the exemption, I need them to be the standard."
All angles (except for exhibit instructing for instructor licensure programs and clinical encounters in the pre-licensure program for attendants) are finished completely on the web. The college expresses that "learning assets arrive in an assortment of structures, including reading material, electronic instructional exercises, reenactments, [and] online classes." The college doesn't build up its own particular courses, yet rather licenses course modules from business suppliers, for example, Pearson and McGraw-Hill.
Execution based evaluations are regularly finished by submitting composed assignments through an online administration. These entries are checked for honesty by looking at them for novel substance crosswise over a huge number of different records submitted at WGU and different colleges, and additionally reports accessible on the web. The target appraisal segment is a delegated exam. Exams are generally taken by means of internet checking through controlled by a web administering organization, for example, ProctorU or Examity, utilizing a college gave webcam. There are no open-book exams.
Confirmations
WGU has a multi-step confirmations process. Affirmations necessities contrast contingent upon which scholarly program the understudy goes to. Numerous projects require either a partner degree from a licensed school or a particular measure of related, undeniable work involvement in the field in which an understudy wishes to examine. The school does not require SAT or ACT scores for affirmation. Undergrad programs require the understudy to have a secondary school recognition or GED and pass the school's Collegiate Readiness Assessment, and entrance into all projects requires a meeting with a WGU Enrollment Counselor to figure out whether the competency-based methodology is the best fit for the individual understudy.
College administration
As a private, philanthropic college, WGU is administered by a leading group of trustees that comprises of state governors, teachers, and business and industry pioneers. Likewise, the college's National Advisory Board comprises of pioneers from private enterprises and establishments which bolster the college. Current individuals incorporate Google, Microsoft, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and AT&T among numerous others. Each of the five state set up schools likewise have a nearby Chancellor and Advisory board from inside of the state. Course abilities are characterized with data from outsider boards made up of business, scholastic, and industry pioneers, who direct the college in figuring out what a fruitful graduate in any given degree program must know not an important worker.
Staff
WGU's disaggregated staff comprises of understudy coaches (employees who prompt and guide an understudy all through his or her whole degree program), course coaches (topic specialists who exhort, mentor, and guide understudies through particular courses), program workforce (who administer course substance), and assessment personnel (who assess/grade assignments). The college has 1,100 full-time employees and 200 section clocks.
WGU has competency-based projects for finishing degree and testament prerequisites. Competency-based projects permit understudies to exhibit through appraisals that they have procured the arrangement of capabilities (levels of learning, aptitude, or capacity) required for a specific degree or declaration. WGU is the initially licensed school to utilize the competency-based methodology, driving a developing pattern toward competency-based advanced education. Previous United States Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan has expressed, "While such projects [like WGU] are currently the exemption, I need them to be the standard."
All angles (except for exhibit instructing for instructor licensure programs and clinical encounters in the pre-licensure program for attendants) are finished completely on the web. The college expresses that "learning assets arrive in an assortment of structures, including reading material, electronic instructional exercises, reenactments, [and] online classes." The college doesn't build up its own particular courses, yet rather licenses course modules from business suppliers, for example, Pearson and McGraw-Hill.
Execution based evaluations are regularly finished by submitting composed assignments through an online administration. These entries are checked for honesty by looking at them for novel substance crosswise over a huge number of different records submitted at WGU and different colleges, and additionally reports accessible on the web. The target appraisal segment is a delegated exam. Exams are generally taken by means of internet checking through controlled by a web administering organization, for example, ProctorU or Examity, utilizing a college gave webcam. There are no open-book exams.
Confirmations
WGU has a multi-step confirmations process. Affirmations necessities contrast contingent upon which scholarly program the understudy goes to. Numerous projects require either a partner degree from a licensed school or a particular measure of related, undeniable work involvement in the field in which an understudy wishes to examine. The school does not require SAT or ACT scores for affirmation. Undergrad programs require the understudy to have a secondary school recognition or GED and pass the school's Collegiate Readiness Assessment, and entrance into all projects requires a meeting with a WGU Enrollment Counselor to figure out whether the competency-based methodology is the best fit for the individual understudy.
College administration
As a private, philanthropic college, WGU is administered by a leading group of trustees that comprises of state governors, teachers, and business and industry pioneers. Likewise, the college's National Advisory Board comprises of pioneers from private enterprises and establishments which bolster the college. Current individuals incorporate Google, Microsoft, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and AT&T among numerous others. Each of the five state set up schools likewise have a nearby Chancellor and Advisory board from inside of the state. Course abilities are characterized with data from outsider boards made up of business, scholastic, and industry pioneers, who direct the college in figuring out what a fruitful graduate in any given degree program must know not an important worker.
Staff
WGU's disaggregated staff comprises of understudy coaches (employees who prompt and guide an understudy all through his or her whole degree program), course coaches (topic specialists who exhort, mentor, and guide understudies through particular courses), program workforce (who administer course substance), and assessment personnel (who assess/grade assignments). The college has 1,100 full-time employees and 200 section clocks.
State-partnered schools
Notwithstanding being established by governors, a few states have made state-built up and subsidiary schools. In spite of the fact that state financing in a few examples was utilized for the creation, every school is self-supporting through educational cost and gifts and managed by the WGU board alongside a neighborhood state chancellor and admonitory board. The state-subsidiary WGU branches offer the same projects and educational program as the national WGU understudy body gets, and accreditation is through WGU. The state members basically permit the states to give WGU an additional level of support, expanding the college's name-acknowledgment in the state and empowering those states to influence WGU's capacity to increment advanced education ability to a more prominent degree. Regardless of the presence of state members, WGU selects understudies living in all U.S. states and on U.S. army installations around the world.
WGU Indiana
WGU Indiana was the principal state set up school made June 11, 2010, by Executive Order 10-04, marked by then legislative leader of Indiana Mitch Daniels. At its establishing Daniels expressed "Today we check the start of, in a genuine sense, Indiana's eighth state college". As a state-subsidiary school, WGU Indiana is an affirmed for Indiana state stipends and grants offered through the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana and understudies moving on from the states junior college framework can exploit the verbalization assention which permits them to exchange all credits, waive the application expense, and get a 5% markdown on educational cost. The school is situated in Indianapolis and the school's chancellor is Allison Barber.
WGU Washington
WGU Washington was made February 26, 2011 with the death of House Bill 1822.It was marked into law by Governor Chris Gregoire. Washington state's past senator Mike Lowry was one of the establishing governors of the college. A bill went in April 2013 will make understudies qualified for state awards like in-state schools. An exchange assention permits understudies who move on from state junior colleges to get a 5% markdown. The Washington Chancellor is previous Bellevue College President Jean Floten.
WGU Texas
Senator Rick Perry of Texas established WGU Texas in August 2011 with Executive Order RP 75.Perry's forerunner George W. Shrub was one of the establishing governors of the college. The creation was bolstered by Rep. Dan Branch, Republican pioneer of the House Education Committee and Sen. Judith Zaffirini, Democratic Chair of the Senate Education Committee. It required the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Education Agency and Texas Workforce Commission to help with its establishing. The state school will have an Advisory Board selected by the senator and be situated in Austin. Beam Martinez is the Texas Chancellor.
WGU Missouri
Senator Jay Nixon initially reported the production of WGU Missouri in his yearly State of the State address in January 2013. He marked Executive Order 13-04 authoritatively beginning the new school. He expressed "(Missouri) has awesome open doors for advanced education, and I'm pleased to say we've recently included one more. WGU Missouri." It was made utilizing stores from Federal Community Development Block Grants and a stipend from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The school has an admonitory board and its own particular nearby chancellor, Dr. Angela (Angie) Besendorfer. Understudies are qualified for state stipends. It is situated in Jefferson City.
WGU Tennessee
Representative Bill Haslam declared the making of WGU Tennessee in January 2013. It was a piece of his "Drive for 55" plan to bring the school graduation rate of the state up to 55%. The school was begun with a stipend from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and $5 million in one time state stores. Understudies are qualified for state monetary guide. The school, situated in Franklin, has a nearby chancellor, Dr. Kimberly K. Estep, and consultative board.
WGU Nevada
Representative Brian Sandoval made WGU Nevada by decree and an update of comprehension with WGU, propelling the 6th state-construct WGU college in light of June 16, 2015. It was made with a $2 million gift from United Student Aid Funds and required no startup financing from the state. At the season of the dispatch, WGU had more than 900 understudies and more than 850 graduated class in Nevada.Dr. Spencer Stewart was named chancellor of WGU Nevada.
Accreditation
WGU is locally authorize by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.Regional accreditation is by the NWCCU, the territorial accreditor of different schools, for example, the University of Washington, the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Gonzaga University, and the University of Oregon, among others. As a result of its one of a kind establishing by 19 governors whose states include a few areas, WGU was the first and final college to date to be evaluated and recompensed accreditation by four varying local accreditors.
In 2006, the WGU Teachers College turned into the main solely online school to get accreditation from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
In May 2009, WGU's nursing instruction projects were certify by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The underlying accreditation, which had a five-year term, was honored after a procedure that incorporated a site visit and a survey of WGU's nursing curriculum.[45] In May 2014, CCNE amplified WGU's accreditation through June 2024. "Western Governors University Earns CCNE Accreditation for Another 10 Years".
In 2011, WGU's B.S. in Health Informatics degree got accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). The accreditation is allowed after broad surveys in view of industry-created guidelines.
Notwithstanding being established by governors, a few states have made state-built up and subsidiary schools. In spite of the fact that state financing in a few examples was utilized for the creation, every school is self-supporting through educational cost and gifts and managed by the WGU board alongside a neighborhood state chancellor and admonitory board. The state-subsidiary WGU branches offer the same projects and educational program as the national WGU understudy body gets, and accreditation is through WGU. The state members basically permit the states to give WGU an additional level of support, expanding the college's name-acknowledgment in the state and empowering those states to influence WGU's capacity to increment advanced education ability to a more prominent degree. Regardless of the presence of state members, WGU selects understudies living in all U.S. states and on U.S. army installations around the world.
WGU Indiana
WGU Indiana was the principal state set up school made June 11, 2010, by Executive Order 10-04, marked by then legislative leader of Indiana Mitch Daniels. At its establishing Daniels expressed "Today we check the start of, in a genuine sense, Indiana's eighth state college". As a state-subsidiary school, WGU Indiana is an affirmed for Indiana state stipends and grants offered through the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana and understudies moving on from the states junior college framework can exploit the verbalization assention which permits them to exchange all credits, waive the application expense, and get a 5% markdown on educational cost. The school is situated in Indianapolis and the school's chancellor is Allison Barber.
WGU Washington
WGU Washington was made February 26, 2011 with the death of House Bill 1822.It was marked into law by Governor Chris Gregoire. Washington state's past senator Mike Lowry was one of the establishing governors of the college. A bill went in April 2013 will make understudies qualified for state awards like in-state schools. An exchange assention permits understudies who move on from state junior colleges to get a 5% markdown. The Washington Chancellor is previous Bellevue College President Jean Floten.
WGU Texas
Senator Rick Perry of Texas established WGU Texas in August 2011 with Executive Order RP 75.Perry's forerunner George W. Shrub was one of the establishing governors of the college. The creation was bolstered by Rep. Dan Branch, Republican pioneer of the House Education Committee and Sen. Judith Zaffirini, Democratic Chair of the Senate Education Committee. It required the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Education Agency and Texas Workforce Commission to help with its establishing. The state school will have an Advisory Board selected by the senator and be situated in Austin. Beam Martinez is the Texas Chancellor.
WGU Missouri
Senator Jay Nixon initially reported the production of WGU Missouri in his yearly State of the State address in January 2013. He marked Executive Order 13-04 authoritatively beginning the new school. He expressed "(Missouri) has awesome open doors for advanced education, and I'm pleased to say we've recently included one more. WGU Missouri." It was made utilizing stores from Federal Community Development Block Grants and a stipend from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The school has an admonitory board and its own particular nearby chancellor, Dr. Angela (Angie) Besendorfer. Understudies are qualified for state stipends. It is situated in Jefferson City.
WGU Tennessee
Representative Bill Haslam declared the making of WGU Tennessee in January 2013. It was a piece of his "Drive for 55" plan to bring the school graduation rate of the state up to 55%. The school was begun with a stipend from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and $5 million in one time state stores. Understudies are qualified for state monetary guide. The school, situated in Franklin, has a nearby chancellor, Dr. Kimberly K. Estep, and consultative board.
WGU Nevada
Representative Brian Sandoval made WGU Nevada by decree and an update of comprehension with WGU, propelling the 6th state-construct WGU college in light of June 16, 2015. It was made with a $2 million gift from United Student Aid Funds and required no startup financing from the state. At the season of the dispatch, WGU had more than 900 understudies and more than 850 graduated class in Nevada.Dr. Spencer Stewart was named chancellor of WGU Nevada.
Accreditation
WGU is locally authorize by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.Regional accreditation is by the NWCCU, the territorial accreditor of different schools, for example, the University of Washington, the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Gonzaga University, and the University of Oregon, among others. As a result of its one of a kind establishing by 19 governors whose states include a few areas, WGU was the first and final college to date to be evaluated and recompensed accreditation by four varying local accreditors.
In 2006, the WGU Teachers College turned into the main solely online school to get accreditation from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).
In May 2009, WGU's nursing instruction projects were certify by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The underlying accreditation, which had a five-year term, was honored after a procedure that incorporated a site visit and a survey of WGU's nursing curriculum.[45] In May 2014, CCNE amplified WGU's accreditation through June 2024. "Western Governors University Earns CCNE Accreditation for Another 10 Years".
In 2011, WGU's B.S. in Health Informatics degree got accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). The accreditation is allowed after broad surveys in view of industry-created guidelines.
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