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Governor Daniels Announces New Online University for Indiana
Executive Order establishes charter for WGU Indiana, the state’s first competency-based university
Indianapolis — Governor Mitch Daniels today announced the establishment of WGU Indiana, http://indiana.wgu.edu, a new online, competency-based university aimed at expanding access to higher education for Hoosiers. Formed by a partnership between the state and Western Governors University, the nation’s only non-profit, competency-based university, WGU Indiana offers fully accredited bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business, teacher education, information technology, and health professions, including nursing.
Indiana Forms Branch of National Online University — from The Chronicle by Marc Parry
Indiana will create a new branch of a national online institution, Western Governors University, under a deal that state leaders announced on Friday.
“Today we mark the beginning of, in a real sense, Indiana’s eighth state university,” Governor Mitch Daniels said in a prepared statement.
The agreement gives a boost to Western Governors’ model of competency-based education, in which students advance by showing what they’ve learned, not how much time they’ve spent in class. Students can also fast-forward their degrees by testing out of stuff they’ve already mastered.
