CUNY System Renews Three Year Membership

Thank you and welcome back to a founding member, the City University of New York System. CUNY has renewed a three year membership for twenty-three campuses under the newly revamped multi-campus/system pricing structure. We look forward to another three years with the faculty and administrators at CUNY!

Thank You to our Newest Corporate Sponsors

The Sloan-C Communitty welcomes two, new Corporate Sponsors. Our newest Gold Sponsor is Academic Partnerships. Academic Partnerships is a higher education service provider that assists high-quality universities in increasing access through technology.

Also joining us as a Basic Corporate Sponsor is Academic Impressions. Academic Impressions serves higher education professionals by providing educational products and services that help institutions tackle key, strategic challenges.

Dr. Kaye Shelton Named Winner of the 2012 Edgar L. Morphet Dissertation Award by the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA)

Sloan-C member, Dr. Kaye Shelton has been named winner of the 2012 Edgar L. Morphet Dissertation Award by the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) for her dissertation titled "A quality scorecard for the administration of online education programs: A Delphi study." This award recognizes significant scholarship in the completion of her dissertation, and it will be presented at the NCPEA Conference in Kansas City in August. The Chair of Dr. Shelton’s committee was Dr. Jody Isernhagen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

A mentor for the Sloan-C Institute, Kaye Shelton is an associate professor in education leadership at Lamar University. An interactive version of the Quality Scorecard is available to Sloan-C Institutional Members.

Call for Nominations Open for the 2012 Sloan-C Awards

The Sloan Consortium has recognized outstanding work in the field of online education through an annual awards process since 2001. The deadline for the submission of nominations for all of the 2012 Sloan-C awards is July 15, 2012.

June Cohort of the Sloan-C Certificate Breaks Registration Record

The Sloan Consortium is proud to welcome seventy-nine educators in the June cohort of the Certificate Program! This sequence of one foundation course and three electives leading from the conceptual to the implementation of online learning effectiveness best practices is fast becoming a standard for faculty at many institutions. Eight different specializations based on chosen electives are offered and include Accessibility, Administrative Practices, Blended Teaching and Learning, Design and Delivery, Mobile Learning, Social Media, Tools and Techniques, and STEM.

The next cohort starts September 5. Learn more.

Call for Sloan-C Webinar Topics

The Sloan-C Institute welcomes ideas and proposals for webinars from our members and colleagues in online higher education. All webinars are to be non-commercial in nature and be focused on topics that would interest educators in online and blended higher education.