Please help get the word out on the following opportunity for college students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
From the ELDNET-L list:
As you may have heard, Sloan-C is working with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the Sloan Foundation on a project called the “Sloan Semester“ to bring free online courses to students displaced from colleges shut down due to damage from Hurricane Katrina. We have been putting together a website (http://www.sloansemester.org/) that provides and collects information that will help in this effort and we are now asking for your help in getting this information out to students that could potentially benefit from this initiative.
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Please help get the word out on the following opportunity for college students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
From the ELDNET-L list:
As you may have heard, Sloan-C is working with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the Sloan Foundation on a project called the “Sloan Semester“ to bring free online courses to students displaced from colleges shut down due to damage from Hurricane Katrina. We have been putting together a website (http://www.sloansemester.org/) that provides and collects information that will help in this effort and we are now asking for your help in getting this information out to students that could potentially benefit from this initiative.
[more below the fold]The Boston Globe estimated that as many as 175,000 students will be displaced this semester due to this disaster. Many will have to seek classes at other institutions, even now that the semester has already started at most of these colleges. Sloan-C has organized more than 100 institutions that offer quality online courses in an accelerated format, starting in October (we are still accepting additional volunteer institutions at the website).
This is a grassroots effort, meaning everything hinges on your help to get this information to the students.The press has already given us some coverage, but that can only do so much, it is really up to our personal efforts to get the word out. Please contact as many personal and professional contacts as possible with the hope that the more people you contact, the more likely more students will find out that this is available. Even if you don’t know a student from the affected schools, someone you know might, so please forward to all you feel comfortable forwarding to.
Because these courses start in October and are completely online, this gives these students the flexibility to have some time to get their personal lives back together, and the geographical freedom to not have to attend a face-to-face classroom in an institution far from where they intended. This will also make it easier for them to return to their institutions once those colleges have recovered from the hurricane damage.
Please help us in getting the word out to everyone you know, so that we can help these students continue their academic careers in spite of this very unfortunate event. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of those affected.
This is the link that you can forward: www.sloansemester.org/
Sincerely,
Keith Bourne
Sloan Consortium
Chief Operations Officer
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