Grantham University

Infobox University
name = Grantham University (GU)


motto = "Striving to provide a premier online education experience"
established = 1951
type = Private For-profit
president = J. Patrick Campbell
dean = Michael Stockstill, PhD
provost = Gary R. Sutter, PhD
city = Kansas City
state = Missouri
country = USA
campus = suburb
students = 5,800
faculty =
mascot = Fighting Eagles
colors = Yellow and blue
website = [http://www.grantham.edu Grantham]

Grantham University is a higher education institution based in Kansas City, Missouri, that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in technology related fields, primarily by distance education. It was once called Grantham College of Engineering.

History

The school was established by Donald Grantham in Southern California on January 2, 1951, as the Grantham Radio License School. It began by offering Federal Communications Commission license certification courses to World War II veterans. Shortly after its founding, the name of the school name was changed to Grantham School of Electronics. Over time, additional sites were established around the United States, including Washington, DC; Seattle, Washington; Kansas City, Missouri; and Hollywood, Florida.

Grantham developed distance education programs and as demand for distance education increased, it consolidated its residential campuses into one location just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1991. It began offering degree programs in the late 1990s exclusively online until Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region in August 2005. Katrina destroyed over eighty percent of Grantham University’s buildings. Grantham University had been planning to open a satellite campus in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to Kansas City seven days after the hurricane hit.

Grantham University is located on convert|30000|ft2|m2 in the Kansas City suburb of Zona Rosa.Total enrollment in 2006 was 9,000 (undergraduate and graduate) students. Grantham University’s Library Resource Center provides Grantham students 24/7 access to the full text of over 33,000 books and 2,500 journals.

Academic programs

Grantham’s programs include Business Administration (MBA), Criminal Justice, Homeland Security, Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Electronics Engineering Technology, General Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies, Information Technology, Information Management, and Project Management.

Accreditation and affiliations

Grantham University is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council to give degrees for both undergraduate and graduate programs. [http://www.grantham.edu/about/about.php Grantham University website] ] Grantham University is a member of the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and has affiliations with the United States Distance Learning Association [http://www.usdla.org/html/membership/organizMembers.htm, accessed September 7, 2008] and Servicemembers Opportunity Consortium. [ [http://www.soc.aascu.org/pubfiles/socmisc/UNIV_COLL.pdf SOC Consortium Member Institutions 2007-2009] , July 10, 2008] Because Grantham University does not have regional accreditation, some regionally accredited schools may be reluctant to accept Grantham's credits in transfer or recognize their degrees for entry into graduate programs. [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/19/transfer "Demanding Credit", Inside Higher Education website, dated Oct. 19, 2005 by Scott Jaschik] ] [http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/26/transfer "Tussling Over Transfer of Credit", Inside Higher Education website, February 26, 2007 by Doug Lederman] ] [http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/education/courses/distancelearn-09.html "What is the Difference Between Regional and National Accreditation", Yahoo! Education website] ] [ [http://distancelearn.about.com/od/accreditationinfo/a/DETC.htm About.com Distance Learning What You Need to Know About DETC Accreditation, Jamie Littlefield] ]

Colleges and schools

* [http://www.grantham.edu/academics/college_engineering.php College of Engineering]
* [http://www.grantham.edu/academics/college_business.php School of Business]
* [http://www.grantham.edu/academics/college_art_science.php College of Arts & Science]

References

External links

* [http://www.grantham.edu Official website]
* [http://www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.asp GU Accreditation] by U.S. Dept of Education Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs.