California’s Coastline Community College is set to create low-cost, online bachelor’s degree pathways where students can enroll simultaneously at one of three public universities, none of which are in California.
The new partnership between Coastline and the University of Massachusetts Online, Penn State University’s World Campus and the University of Illinois-Springfield should go live next spring. The project’s leaders hope it will serve as a model for expanding capacity at California’s community colleges, which have been forced to turn away hundreds of thousands of students because of budget cuts.
Under the project, students would attend Coastline full-time for their first year of course offerings, with a targeted haul of 30 credits. They would then be concurrently enrolled at the college and one of its three university partners for the next two years. The curriculum of that segment would be 60 credits. Then, the final year would be 30 credits of “capstone” courses at the online university. Students could complete their associate degree on their way to a bachelor’s.
The partnership was featured by Inside Higher Education on October 30, 2012.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Women's basketball: UIS seventh in West poll
The University of Illinois Springfield women’s basketball team was voted to finish seventh in the West Division of Great Lakes Valley Conference in a preseason coaches poll.
UIS finished seventh in the conference last season with a 4-14 record and was 9-17 overall.
Drury received 10 first-place votes and 115 points for first place. Maryville was second and had five first-place votes. Quincy was third with one first-place point. Missouri S&T, William Jewell, Missouri-St. Louis, UIS and Rockhurst round out the eight-team list.
The rankings were featured by the State Journal-Register on October 26, 2012.
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UIS finished seventh in the conference last season with a 4-14 record and was 9-17 overall.
Drury received 10 first-place votes and 115 points for first place. Maryville was second and had five first-place votes. Quincy was third with one first-place point. Missouri S&T, William Jewell, Missouri-St. Louis, UIS and Rockhurst round out the eight-team list.
The rankings were featured by the State Journal-Register on October 26, 2012.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
'Tartuffe' opens UIS theatre season
A comedy by “France’s Shakespeare” this weekend kicks off the 2012-13 season of plays presented by the University of Illinois Springfield theatre program.
“Tartuffe,” a 17th-century farce by Moliere about the machinations of a religious fraud, will be presented in a contemporary setting in an English translation that preserves the poetic nature of the 350-year-old French script, said director Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson.
“The text is translated from French into English rhyming couplets,” said Thibodeaux-Thompson, associate professor of theatre at UIS. “It’s a blend of modern colloquial language with poetry.”
“Tartuffe” (comedy)
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“Tartuffe,” a 17th-century farce by Moliere about the machinations of a religious fraud, will be presented in a contemporary setting in an English translation that preserves the poetic nature of the 350-year-old French script, said director Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson.
“The text is translated from French into English rhyming couplets,” said Thibodeaux-Thompson, associate professor of theatre at UIS. “It’s a blend of modern colloquial language with poetry.”
“Tartuffe” (comedy)
- When: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Nov. 1-3; 2 p.m. Sunday. Preview/dress rehearsal 7:30 p.m. today.
- Where: UIS Studio Theatre, lower level, Public Affairs Center, University of Illinois Springfield
- Tickets: $6 (age 17 and under), $8 (college/university students with ID), $10 (UIS faculty/staff), $12 (age 65 and older), and $14 (adults), available 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the Sangamon Auditorium box office or by calling 206-6160.
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