Sunday, 25 October 2015

Online Degree: Ashford University

Ashford University is a revenue driven college headquartered in San Diego, California. It is the biggest instructive holding of Bridgepoint Education. The college offers associate's, bachelor's, and graduate degrees in more than 50 degree programs on grounds and on the web. The college comprises of four universities: the Forbes School of Business, the College of Education, the College of Health, Human Services, and Science, and the College of Liberal Arts.  While a dominant part of the 54,120 understudies are selected in online courses, as of December 31, 2014, the college additionally has 742 understudies at their grounds area in Clinton, Iowa. Ashford is licensed by the WASC Senior College and University Commission.

Student Life

The Ashford University grounds offers numerous extracurricular clubs and associations for understudies. Scholastic associations incorporate the Ashford Junior-Senior Honor Society, the Ashford Student Iowa State Education Association, the Golden Key International Honor Society, the Mu Sigma Eta math and science honor society, the Phi Beta Lambda business association, the Psychology Club, the Scholars Institute respects program, and the Sigma Tau Delta writing and training honor society. Aesthetic associations on grounds incorporate the Concert Choir, AU Dance, the Fine Arts Club, the Photography Club, and the Wind Ensemble. Other noteworthy understudy associations incorporate The Clarion newspaper, the Student Government Association, AU Life, the International Student Organization, the Latin American Student Organization, the Environmental Association, and various intramural games and activities.

Honor Societies

Ashford University understudies who exceed expectations scholastically have the chance to join a few honor societies. Online understudies can join the Alpha Sigma Lambda and Phi Theta Kappa[28] honor social orders. Grounds understudies are qualified for the Ashford Junior-Senior Honor Society, the Scholars Institute, Mu Sigma Eta math and science honor society, and Sigma Tau Delta[30] writing and instruction honor society. Both online and grounds understudies have the capacity to join Delta Alpha Pi International Honor Society, Golden Key International Honor Society, and SALUTE Veterans National Honor Society.

Controversies

As per U.S. Senate affirmation by Arlie Willems, resigned analyst for the Iowa Department of Education, the Iowa Department of Education denied Ashford University's solicitation in 2006 to offer an online Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) because the project "was more a gathering of discrete courses than a durable system, was understaffed for fitting collaboration with understudies and supervision of both courses and clinical encounters, including understudy instructing. Numerous employees needed suitable scholarly foundation and/or encounters for their alloted obligations. The most genuine concern noted by the group was the absence of obligation with respect to the project in giving quality clinical encounters, the part of instructor planning considered the most critical by arrangement programs in Iowa.

Willems likewise affirmed that Ashford went into association with Rio Salado Community College while training courses from the Ashford BA in Social Science with a Concentration in Education could apply to Rio Salado's post-baccalaureate instructor training project. When understudies have finished the online Ashford BA and the online Rio Salado educator instruction program, they are qualified for an Arizona educating permit. Willem's prominent that this organization could be seen as an inventive approach to take care of an issue to keep drawing understudies, or it could be seen as an approach to dodge the responsibility framework for quality with a specific end goal to keep gathering educational cost from understudies. A person who has accomplished an Arizona permit along these lines does not naturally get an Iowa permit in light of the fact that Iowa and Arizona don't have a correspondence understanding. 

As indicated by Willems, protestations from Ashford understudies concerning this understanding and licensure include

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