Excelsior College of New Yotk now offers a new School of Business degree program: the Bachelor of Science - Hospitality Management. This new program is expected to officially open late spring 2006. The objective is to give current hospitality professionals the opportunity to achieve a bachelor’s degree with flexibility that is not possible through a traditional university setting.

The School of Business and Technology has begun the development of online courses to fulfill required subjects in the Hospitality concentration. The first two courses are scheduled to be available for the September 2006 semester.

Excelsior College, a regionally accredited college, specializes in helping adult learners and working professionals acheive credit for life and career experience by taking challenge exams and by awarding college credit for industry career certifications earned on the job and through military service. Excelsior is independently ranked as an Honorable Mention in GetEducated.com's newly released survey of America's Best Buys in Online Bachelor Degrees.

Attend a criminal justice degree program whose faculty is ranked as one of the top nationally in publications of research (Journal of Criminal Justice). Designed to meet the needs of today's working professional, the University of Cincinnati’s Master of Science in Criminal Justice Degree Program offers the benefit of a strong academic program with the convenience of distance learning. Students can complete the regionally-accredited Master’s degree 100% online in just 2 years while taking care of work, family, and personal responsibilities.

Distance learning students come from a variety of racial/ethnic backgrounds, ages, native languages, and learning styles. In addition, increasing numbers of students with physical and health disabilities are participating in precollege and postsecondary online courses.

How can distance learning educators design instruction to maximize learning for all students? The field of universal design provides a starting point for developing a model for instruction. This helpful article by Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D., University of Washington DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) outlines 10 Distance Learning Program Accessibility Indicators that can be used as a checklist for documenting program changes that will lead to improved accessibility of distance-learning courses.

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The Ohio Learning Network is a consortium of 50 institutions offering 163 distance degrees and supporting 37,421 e-learners. A new consortium survey reveals Ohio adults think college degrees are important in life and 40% of them are interested in earning that degree online. Their number one perceived obstacle isn't Internet access or personal motivation or lack of trust in the quality of e- degrees; it's cost. See results from a poll of 534 Ohio adults 18-64 years of age surveyed for the Ohio Learning Network in February and March 2006. These Ohioans have college credit, but lack a bachelor's degree.

The State of Wyoming has enacted a law which will require private colleges operating in the state to gain accreditation from an agency that is recognized by the U. S. Department of Education. Previously, private colleges had been required to seek a business license from the state but not required to undergo an academic accreditation review.

Wyoming has gained a reputation as a safe harbor for degree mills because of its lack of accreditation enforcement. Several private online colleges operate out of Wyoming, including Rutherford University, Preston University, Halifax, and Kennedy-Western University. Kennedy-Western was cited as a diploma mill in the government's 2004 investigation into government employer's use of unaccredited schools to purchase academic credentials.