"Arkansas to Expand Online With Grantham Acquisition"

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  1. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Sure, but on this forum, what doesn't?

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  2. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

    A lot because some things are FACTS!
     
  3. LearningAddict

    LearningAddict Well-Known Member

    Yeah guys and gals, I don't like the name either. There have certainly been worse names, but it's still not good to me.

    And even then, you'd have to be doing it only for the purpose of putting "University of Arkansas" on your resume, or because you're just not aware of cheaper options, because there are cheaper DEAC schools, not many anymore, but still.
     
  4. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    Is it misleading if you graduate from the University of Arkansas?

    If you say you graduate from the University of California, of course people understand that is a set of schools and different schools have different specialties (UC Berkeley ranking highly in statistics, while UC Davis has a top-ranked agriculture department) so they'll likely insist on knowing which constituent school you attended. Does the same apply to Arkansas' eVersity?
     
  5. LearningAddict

    LearningAddict Well-Known Member

    Depends though, may be location dependent. I say that because I could see people from a given school's area being familiar with the existence of several schools within the state university's system carrying the state university name, but people outside of that may not be aware and won't question it further if you simply said "I graduated from the University of <insert state>". I actually pondered all of this before with the eVersity program and it got me to go search for an eVersity diploma. I found one, and the diploma read at the top "University of Arkansas System eVersity".

    How a graduate would choose to write that out--as-is or otherwise--in a credential line is something I'd like to see some takes on.
     
  6. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    Well, "University of Arkansas - Grantham" or University of Arkansas at Grantham or University of Arkansas - Grantham College still sounds better than eVersity. eVersity sounds like an online retail store.
     
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  7. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    They are independent schools accredited separately. The entire name of the school should be written or stated unless it's local practice to drop the city for the flagship. The resume or CV should still have the full name of the flagship. When I lived in San Antonio, the locals always said UTSA and never just University of Texas to refer to University of Texas at San Antonio. University of Texas refers to the University of Texas at Austin because it's the flagship. In the Dallas area, locals say UTA or UT-Arlington and UTD or UT-Dallas.

    If you don't say the full name, people will think you're intentionally being vague with the hopes that people will think you graduated from the higher-ranked university in the system. If you don't put the full name on the resume, it looks unethical.
     
  8. LearningAddict

    LearningAddict Well-Known Member

    It reminds me of the earlier time of the internet (think 1999-2004, maybe even after that) where so many things were named 'e-something" or "I-something" to try to be hip with the times. It was a product of everyone still trying to figure things out with the medium, and it was lame to me even then. However, the iPhone name did survive the transition pretty doggone well.
     
  9. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    In 2014 the Grantham's University EET BSc degree achieved accreditation by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET.
    That milestone was huge as it was a first DEAC school to achieve that if I'm not mistaken and enabled graduates to explore the path to take FE and
    professional PE exams in states like New Mexico.
     
  10. LearningAddict

    LearningAddict Well-Known Member

    In that case, it would be "University of Arkansas System eVersity". Would you be against it being written as "University of Arkansas - eVersity"?
     
  11. Michigan68

    Michigan68 Active Member

    Are they going to close eVersity and just change Grantham to UA-Grantham?

    No real reason to keep both.
     
  12. mintaru

    mintaru Active Member

    There is a now closed second thread obout this topic were MasterChief posted an e-mail he got from Grantham: https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/grantham-university-university-of-arkansas.59475/

    Here is the relevant part of that e-mail:
    So it seems it is planed as a merger, but the result will be the same.
     
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