
BY : Kampuzz Team
Date : 20-05-2015
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Innovative SUU program will cut time, money spent on general education
Southern
Utah University is going to execute its jumpstart program this fall. This
program will cut the total time taken by incoming freshmen to complete their
general education. It is going to reduce it into one year which generally takes
two years.
The
Southern Utah University (SUU) is a reputed university which is located in
Cedar City, Utah, United State. It has been a prestigious university since the
time of its endowment in 1898. It annually graduates approximately 1700
students with it graduate and baccalaureate degree programs from the six
colleges that run under the university. It offers more than eighty five UG
programs as well as eight graduate programs. More than 8,000 students are there
in SUU.
The
Draper local selected not long after secondary school, but rather the
"cookie-cutter" mold of general education courses wasn't working for
him, Lowry said, and wellbeing issues tipped the scale, inciting him to stop
early and lose the credits he had worked and paid for.
Adding
to his reasons not to re-enlist, the feature creation business he began
continued offering the guarantee of quick payback.
Until
now he had given school a reasonable shot, and there was no motivation for him
to go back.
Not
just could the project trim up a year of classes and educational cost for
understudies, yet college pioneers trust it will make an incorporated school
requirements in one year which generally took two years. It would motivate the
students towards degree completion.
It's
sufficient to tip the scale again for Lowry. According to him, “To be honest, I
really couldn't believe it at first because I think general education is
something that kind of leaves a sour taste in some people's mouths when they
think about going to college and doing a bunch of classes they feel they're
never going to use," he said. "But to hear that I could get
everything I needed and get it done in a year, I couldn't believe it. It
sounded so cool.”
This
is a different approach of learning for bottleneck enrollment in college. Large
classes are being taught by the graduate students or the random faculties and
after that there is no teacher-student interaction outside the classroom.
As
per the words given by John Taylor (A faculty Fellow of SUU), “This is not the
trend that we want at SUU, especially with these incoming freshmen.” Further he
concluded, “We want them to make a connection to higher education, to our
institution, to where they see the value of their education and they want to
stay.”
We
can hope that this innovative program of SUU is going to be a success for sure
because it is going to shave off the basic problems that obstruct the process
of degree completion.
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