Educational Opportunities

Ideally, Katrina Villages will have educational opportunities for learners of all ages and previous educational experience.

Below are links to some of the initiatives that have been established by other organizations so far...

For current college students

Forwarded message from Inga Karliner

Subject: On-Line courses for displaced students http://www.sloansemester.org/ Sender: thinknola-xavier@googlegroups.com From: Inga Karliner Reply-To: thinknola-xavier@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 23:50:41 -0500 To: Xavier Google Cc: Inga Karliner Delivered-To: alan-thinknola@engrm.com

Sloan-C is working the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the Sloan Foundation on a project called the “Sloan Semester...http://www.sloansemester.org...to bring free online courses to students displaced from colleges shut down due to damage from Hurricane Katrina.

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).

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.

http://www.sloansemester.org

Keith Bourne Sloan Consortium Chief Operations Officer keith.bourne@sloan-c.org > voice: 781.292.2533

Learn more about the Sloan Consortium @ www.sloan-c.org

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