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17 enroll in BGSU Sloan Semester courses BOWLING GREEN, O.—Seventeen students are registered for Bowling Green State University online courses through the Sloan Semester,
a collaborative national initiative to help college students affected by the Hurricane Katrina by providing free distance
courses.
The courses began on an accelerated semester, which began Oct. 12. BGSU provided 10 online courses through the Sloan Semester
program. Seven of the classes received sufficient enrollment and are now underway.
Connie Molnar, director of distance learning at BGSU, said the Sloan Foundation has urged universities in the consortium to
be as flexible as possible to help meet the needs of students affected by Hurricane Katrina. Some students, she pointed out,
have experienced great trauma during and after the storms and are still dealing with the aftereffects.
The foundation has asked consortium members to continue to provide "as much assistance, support and encouragement as you can
while not lessoning the quality, requirements and expectations of the courses you are offering."
Molnar speaks highly of the BGSU faculty who are teaching the courses for students whose education was interrupted by the
hurricane. "They are providing quality courses while demonstrating a real concern for the students," the administrator said.
She adds that the students she has been in contact with are thankful for this effort by BGSU. "I am touched by the students
taking the courses, as well as by the BGSU faculty and staff who helped in the Sloan Semester project. It has truly been a
wonderful effort to be involved in," Molnar said.
(Posted October 25, 2005 )
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