Western Governors University

Western Governors University (WGU) is a private, charitable, online American University situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. The University was established by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the thought was defined at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association. The University utilizes a competency-based learning model, with understudies working on the web. Scott D. Pulsipher is the present University president, having joined WGU on April 11, 2016; WGU's first president, Robert Mendenhall, is president emeritus and remains an individual from WGU's Board of Trustees. WGU's accreditation is through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

WGU was formally established in 1997 in the United States by the governors of 19 U.S. states. It was initially proposed by then-legislative head of Utah Mike Leavitt at the yearly meeting of the Western Governors Association in June 1995. It was formally proposed the next November, and in June 1996 every marking state senator conferred $100,000 toward the dispatch of the new competency-based University. While the seed cash was given from government sources, the school was to be set up as a self-supporting private, philanthropic foundation. In January 1997, 13 governors were close by to sign the articles of fuse formally starting the new University.

In 2001, the United States Department of Education honored $10 million to establish the Teachers University, and the main projects were offered in Information Technology. In 2003, the University turned into the primary school to be authorize in four unique areas by the Interregional Accrediting Committee. In 2006, the fourth school, the University of Health Professions, was established, and the teachers University turned into the main online instructor arrangement system to get NCATE accreditation. In 2010, the primary state-set up branch WGU Indiana, was established by Mitch Daniels, legislative leader of Indiana, and the school achieved 20,000 understudies surprisingly. In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $4.5 million to WGU Indiana and the production of WGU Texas and WGU Washington.

On January 8, 2013, Bill Haslam, legislative leader of Tennessee, reported the making of the state-associated WGU Tennessee. On January 28, 2013, Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri, in his yearly State of the State address, reported the establishing of WGU Missouri, making the fifth state-subsidiary grounds. What's more, on June 16, 2015, Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada dispatched WGU Nevada, the 6th state-based WGU. The state-partnered branches of WGU offer the same scholarly model, workforce, administrations, accreditation, educational cost, and educational program as WGU and were set up to give official state underwriting and expanded name acknowledgment to WGU in those states; in any case, WGU has understudies and graduates in every one of the 50 expresses, the District of Columbia, U.S. domains, parts of Canada, and on U.S. army installations around the world.

As of April 2016, the University had developed to about 70,000 at present selected students and more than 60,000 graduates. WGU involves four colleges, every offering single guy's and graduate degree programs: the College of Business, the College of Information Technology, the Teachers College, and the College of Health Professions, which incorporates degrees in nursing. As of October 2014, 55 bachelor's, master's, and post-baccalaureate degree programs, and also instructor underwriting arrangement projects, were offered among the four universities. Terms comprise of six-month "moving" semesters, which begin for individual understudies on the first of consistently. Classes are relegated special terms enduring six weeks however understudies may continue at their own pace. Numerous classes have "partners," or understudies working in the same general time period, to encourage online gatherings and discourses, however understudies in any given associate advancement to the following course when they can demonstrate their insight. Course tutors give both gathering and individual direction and additionally directing online examinations.

WGU has a multi-step affirmations process. Confirmations prerequisites vary contingent upon which scholastic program the understudy goes to. Numerous projects require either a partner degree from an authorize school or a particular measure of related, evident work involvement in the field in which an understudy wishes to examine. The school does not require SAT or ACT scores for affirmation. Undergrad programs require the understudy to have a secondary school confirmation or GED and pass the school's Collegiate Readiness Assessment, and induction into all projects requires a meeting with a WGU Enrollment Counselor to figure out whether the competency-based methodology is the best fit for the individual understudy. WGU's dis-aggregated workforce comprises of understudy coaches (employees who exhort and manage an understudy all through his or her whole degree program), course guides (topic specialists who prompt, mentor, and guide understudies through particular courses), program personnel (who regulate course substance), and assessment staff (who assess/grade assignments). The college has more than two thousand employees, a large portion of whom work 40 hours per week (the special case being low maintenance appraisal evaluators).