{"id":39291,"date":"2016-04-18T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=39291"},"modified":"2016-04-18T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:14:00","slug":"trustees-approve-new-university-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_18_2016\/trustees-approve-new-university-college","title":{"rendered":"Trustees approve new University College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new University College that will merge the College of Adult and Lifelong Learning and YouCollege with UT Online was approved Monday by the UT Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p>University College, which will be established July 1, will be led by Dr. Barbara Kopp Miller, associate provost for online education and director of the Center for Successful Aging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_12_2016\/nominations-needed-for-rathbun-outreach-and-engagement-excellence-award-2\/business-hlogo-1c-black-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/UT-logo-small-web.jpg\" alt=\"Business Hlogo 1c Black\" width=\"216\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38158\" \/><\/a>\u201cUniversity College truly serves the entire University through the services it provides, as well as being a home for students who are still exploring the many majors offered by The University of Toledo,\u201d Kopp Miller said. \u201cOur goal is to provide the services students need to help them be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The about 700 students in the College of Adult and Lifelong Learning\u2019s individualized studies degree programs and the about 1,700 students in YouCollege\u2019s Department of Exploratory Studies will be enrolled in the new University College.<\/p>\n<p>University College also will oversee the University\u2019s more than 500 online courses, as well as provide UT\u2019s military, testing and workforce development services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UT Board of Trustees approved the merger of the College of Adult and Lifelong Learning and YouCollege with UT Online, which will become the new University College July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41,7,31,55],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39292,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39291\/revisions\/39292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}