CenterPoints
Your E-newsletter from The Center for Extended and Distance
Education
Fall 2009 ●
Volume 1 ●
Issue 1
The Center has a New Home!
In 1999, the tornado that leveled so much of downtown Clarksville
forced the University to find a “temporary home” for the various
groups that make up the Center for Extended and Distance Education.
Now, after ten years in offices scattered all around downtown
Clarksville, the Center team has finally come home again to the
Austin Peay campus.
July 15, 2009 marked our move into the
newly-remodeled APSU McReynolds Building. Located just
off of College Street on Drane Street, McReynolds will now house the
English as a Second Language Institute, APSU Distance Education (our
online degree program support team), the TN Small
Business Development Center, Tri-county Upward Bound, Veterans
Upward Bound, Extended Education (our off-campus programs
administration team), Dual and Joint Enrollment support staff and
Continuing Education (our leisure learning, career development and
business training staff, labs and classrooms.) APSU’s
Grants and Sponsored Research offices will also be housed in
McReynolds.
With tons of space for all of our
programs, we are excited about serving our students and
clients from our new offices, great new classroom spaces and newly
updated teaching labs. Come visit us soon!
Fall 2009 Noncredit Catalogs are Here!
Registration for Fall is now open -- come learn with us!
The Fall 2009 Noncredit Course Catalog is now available.
Copies will be inserted in the home-delivered issue of the Leaf
Chronicle on
August 19, 2009. You may also find them at the Center’s offices in
McReynolds Room 118, the Ft. Campbell ACAP office, the Austin Peay
Center at Ft. Campbell and the Clarksville Public Library. A
printable version of the catalog is available online
at
http://www.apsu.edu/ext_ed/Noncredit/WebsiteCatalogFall2009.pdf.
The new class schedule this fall will
include
For more information about noncredit programs
or to register for a noncredit class, call the Center at
931-221-7816. A complete list of the upcoming classes, seminars,
online programs and certificates can be seen at
http://www.apsu.edu/Ext_Ed/Noncredit/noncredit_classes.aspx.
ESL Registration Open August 10
The ESL Institute’s intensive program of study in English is
designed for international students seeking undergraduate
admission to university. We also welcome students from
the Clarksville community who wish to improve their English
language skills in order to improve their workplace skills or
further their professional careers. Registration for Fall 2009
classes opens August 10 with classes starting August 31. For
more information about the program, call 931-221-6270 or visit the
Web site at
http://www.apsu.edu/Ext_Ed/ESL/.
TSBDC "Starting a Small Business" Workshops for Fall 2009
Thinking about starting your own business? Get the
information you need to start on the right foot by attending one of
the workshops offered at little or no cost to you by the Tennessee
Small Business Development Center at APSU. For details
about upcoming workshops and other TSBDC services available to area
small business, please call (931) 221-1370 or visit the Web site at
http://www.tsbdc.org/events.aspx.
Earn college credit while you're still in high school!
Apply now for admission to the Dual and Joint Enrollment programs
If you have completed your sophomore year in high school, there
are two ways you can start earning college credit at Austin Peay.
Through dual enrollment, you take classes that count towards both
college and high school credit. Through joint enrollment, you take
classes for college credit only.
New admissions requirements have been
approved to allow additional students to take advantage of this
exciting opportunity. You must now have a high school GPA of
3.0 and math and English subscores of at least 19 on your ACT.
Also new is the online application for
the Tennessee Dual Enrollment Grant. Students now complete a simple
form online; visit
http://www.apsu.edu/Ext_Ed/Dual_Enrollment/ for
details and links to the forms.
For more information about Dual and Joint
Enrollment, call The Center at 931-221-7175 or visit the Web site at
http://www.apsu.edu/Ext_Ed/Dual_Enrollment/.
A detailed Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document is also
available on the website.
Online Professional Development Certificates Now Offered through
The Center
Whether you need to upgrade your current skills, professional
development to enhance your career, a career skills certificate,
test prep for an industry standard certification exam or just want
to learn something new, the Center's online programs may be the
answer for you.
Certificate programs are available in a wide variety of career
fields including healthcare careers, service careers, paralegal
careers, information technology and software design careers,
construction careers and business related careers. Choose from
more than 40 programs and jump start your career today. For
more information about these and other online programs, contact the
Center 15 931-221-7816 or visit the Web site at
http://www.apsu.edu/Ext_Ed/Noncredit/noncredit_profdev.aspx
Classes in Dickson at the Renaissance Center
Beginning in the fall 2009 semester, APSU
will offer a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with a
concentration in management at The Renaissance Center in Dickson,
Tenn.
The BBA program will be structured like a
regular four-year degree program. You will complete core classes
offered through APSU and Nashville State Community College and
upper-division business classes offered by Austin Peay State
University. Students will attend classes during 16-week semesters in
the fall and spring.
For more information about the new Dickson program, call The Center
at 931-221-7175 or visit the web site at
http://www.apsu.edu/Ext_Ed/Dickson/.
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