UI's Global Campus program readies for launch
By Christine Des Garennes
Tuesday January 1, 2008
Vanda Bidwell
From left, Dena Lawrence, Timothy Tiger and Jennifer Harbaugh, advisers with the University of Illinois Global Campus, speak with prospective students Dec. 21 at their office in Champaign.
12:01 a.m., Jan. 2: Zero hour for the University of Illinois Global Campus.
More than two years since UI President B. Joseph White posed the idea of creating a fourth, virtual campus, and over a year since an administrative and faculty report put the proverbial stake in the ground and outlined a possible structure for the initiative, prompting numerous debates about how online education should be done at the University of Illinois, the UI's Global Campus will formally launch Wednesday.
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