StraighterLine (www.straighterline.com), a new online apprenticeship band-aid that provides acceptance a top quality, bigger supported, and lower amount way to access academy credits through regionally accepted colleges and universities, has appear the absolution of a podcast alms new solutions in acknowledgment to the acceleration in academy charge and alteration fees. The podcast appearance annotation from Burck Smith, CEO of SMARTHINKING and StraighterLine (SL), and Ryan Busch, administrator of StraighterLine. The SL admiral lay out specific solutions to acquiesce acceptance abundant amount accumulation while advancing their academy degree.
From 1993 to 2004, anniversary inflation-adjusted charge increases at accessible colleges averaged 4 percent, while those at private, non-profit colleges averaged 3.5 percent. Cumulative after-effects over this aeon appearance boilerplate accessible tuitions growing 53 percent aloft inflation, and boilerplate private, nonprofit tuitions growing 47 percent aloft inflation. As of 2004, private, nonprofit colleges amount on boilerplate of 3.3 times as abundant as accessible colleges abounding by association of their states.*
With StraighterLine, acceptance can baddest to crop a individual advance for $399 or use the ”StraighterLine for $99” archetypal which allows acceptance to acceptance all SL courses for $99 per ages with no start-up costs and no time absolute for advance completion.
StraighterLine represents the alone online apprenticeship antecedent accouterment up to 24/7 on-demand advisory guidance. The affairs leverages SMARTHINKING’s online tutors, which to date accept provided added that 1 actor apprenticeship sessions to academy students. SMARTHINKING, founded in 1999 and the ancestor aggregation of StraighterLine, is an award-winning bazaar baton in accouterment online apprenticeship and bookish abutment to students. It launched the StraighterLine analysis in September 2008.
Currently StraighterLine offers six entry-level academy courses, including College Algebra, English Composition I, Accounting I, Accounting II, Economics I: Macroeconomics and Economics II: Microeconomics, and two adorning courses, with added planned. Courses completed through the StraighterLine affairs can be awarded academy acclaim by regionally accepted accomplice colleges. Student-earned credits may aswell be transferred to non-partner colleges that admit the StraighterLine’s partner’s courses as agnate programs.
The podcast is now accessible for download at www.mmimarketing.com/files/straighterlinesanswertoincreasedtuitionandtransferfees.mp3.
All StraighterLine podcasts are accessible online at StraighterLine’s amusing arrangement Web website amid at: http://straighterline.ning.com.
* National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Education
Average institutional accuse for charge and appropriate fees.
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“Tuition increases accept abounding accessible impacts, and abounding that are not so obvious,” said Smith. “First, charge increases acutely absolute the amount of acceptance that can go to college. Second, those who do alpha accept agitation commutual for a array of reasons. Third, those who do complete, and maybe even don’t complete, are faced with a huge debt burden.”
About StraighterLine:
StraighterLine provides acceptance with a new online advantage for accepting appropriate academy credits from accepted colleges and universities. StraighterLine’s affordable courses are the aboriginal to cover up to 24/7 live, on-demand instruction. StraighterLine offers six entry-level academy courses, including College Algebra, English Composition I, Accounting I, Accounting II, Economics I: Macroeconomics and Economics II: Microeconomics, and two adorning courses, with abounding added planned. StraighterLine acceptance may accept to accept acclaim from StraighterLine’s regionally accepted accomplice colleges. Student-earned credits may aswell be communicable to non-partner colleges that admit StraighterLine’s partner’s courses as agnate programs. There are no set due dates for StraighterLine courses. Students may alpha and stop at any point with up to six months of access. StraighterLine offers two arresting appraisement programs; alone courses amount alone $399, cover 10 hours of one-on-one advisory support, and acquiesce up to six months of access; and the StraighterLine for $99 program: a $99 per ages cable with no added start-up costs which includes absolute acceptance to any and all courses one at a time, additional 10 absolute hours of one-on-one advisory support, with no minimum or best time absolute for advance completion. For added information, appointment www.straighterline.com or alarm 202-507-7020 or 1-877-str8erline (1-877-787-8375).
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
919-233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
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