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Greenville College GOAL Program
Opportunity is knocking for Parkland College adult learners that want to complete a bachelor’s degree but need to remain employed while doing so. Parkland has partnered with the Greenville College GOAL program to make higher education even more available for students.
Greenville College Opportunities in Adult Learning, or GOAL, allows working adults who have already completed a minimum of 60 semester credits to earn a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership. Organizational leadership is a broad-based field of study with application in a wide range of careers and industries. The organizational leadership curriculum offers courses in communication, leadership, and the social sciences. It generally complements the strong technical skills and years of experience that adult students bring to the classroom.
GOAL provides an 18-month accelerated course of study that requires students to take one course at a time, one night a week. Classes are taught by Greenville College faculty and meet from 6 to 10 p.m. at Parkland's campus in Champaign. Champaign is one of 12 instruction sites opened since the program began on the Greenville College campus in 1995. Other GOAL instruction sites include Springfield, Decatur, Jacksonville, Godfrey, Belleville, Centralia, Effingham, Fairfield, Red Bud, and Edwardsville.
As with other bachelor’s degree programs offered through Parkland, the GOAL program may not be a good match for every adult student. It is a good choice, however, for adults needing to move into jobs requiring more authority and responsibility than their more narrowly defined technical skills and education may have prepared them for.
To qualify for admission to the GOAL program, you must have already completed 60 transferable semester credit hours, have at least three years of full-time work experience, and have college-level writing skills. Because of the articulation agreement between Parkland and Greenville, any student with either an A.A. or A.S. degree from Parkland will automatically meet the academic requirements for admission to GOAL. Transcript evaluations are provided to prospective students free of charge. Students must achieve a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.00 for all coursework completed at Greenville to graduate.
Greenville College was founded in 1892 as a four-year Christian liberal arts college. It is located in Greenville, Illinois, 45 miles east of St. Louis on Interstate 70, and currently has over 900 residential students. Over 45 professional and pre-professional majors are offered on the home campus through traditional, four-year bachelor’s degree programs. For additional information on any of these programs, or for an individual appointment with a representative (either in person or by telephone), you may contact Greenville College toll free at 888/818-4625.
Trends show that a growing number of older adults are returning to school to achieve or complete a bachelor’s or master’s degree. Parkland College and Eastern Illinois University have partnered since 1989 to meet the needs of this growing population. Whether you are looking to complete a bachelor’s degree, earn a master’s degree, or just update professional skills, Eastern Illinois University offers a variety of courses on Parkland’s campus. The EIU School of Continuing Education holds classes evenings, weekends, and online.
More than 90 percent of the students working on bachelor’s or master’s degrees through EIU at Parkland College work full time. The flexibility of having evening and weekend classes appeals to many of these students. In addition, more than half of the students who receive their bachelor’s degree through the EIU School of Continuing Education’s off-campus programs go on to pursue the master’s degree.
EIU degrees that can be completed on the Parkland College campus include:
• Board of Trustees Bachelor of Arts Degree in General Studies
• Bachelor of Science in Career and Organizational Studies
• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
• Master of Science in Technology
• Master in Business Administration Degree
For more information on these programs, please go the EIU School of Continuing Education website.
EIU has offered a Master’s in Educational Administration, School Counseling as well as an Education Specialist program at Parkland College. The university also brought a noncredit Paralegal Certificate program to Parkland this past spring and will offer a new class in fall 2005. In addition, a minor in psychology through the Board of Trustees degree program will be added to EIU’s curriculum at Parkland in fall 2005.
For information on EIU programs, contact Pat Hufmeyer at the EIU at Parkland College Office in the Adult Re-entry Center, Room X107, or call 217/351-2543, or email her .
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