{"id":58555,"date":"2021-02-10T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58555"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:20:21","slug":"fort-hays-state-one-of-only-6-usdla-certified-institutions-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=58555","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hays State one of only 6 USDLA-certified institutions worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FHSU Online \u2013 the distance education arm of Fort Hays State University \u2013 continues to meet the strict requirements of membership in the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). The association recently announced that Fort Hays State had earned certification for a period to run through 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USDLA is a nonprofit distance\nlearning association whose work focuses on supporting distance learning\nresearch, development, and praxis across the complete arena of education,\ntraining, and communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fall of 2019, FHSU met the\nexhaustive, 120-standard assessment process for membership in USDLA and became\none of only six USDLA-certified institutions in the world during 2020.\nQualities that make USDLA membership so exclusive are a thorough annual review that requires extensive reporting on all areas of online\neducation at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMembership in the USDLA shows that\nFHSU\u2019s online programs go beyond their many accreditations to satisfy more than\n100 additional standards and benchmarks,\u201d said Dr. Greg Atkins, interim\nassistant director of FHSU Online. \u201cOnly a few dozen institutions in the world\nmeet such stringent requirements. What a testimony to the caliber of dedication\nand skill of FHSU\u2019s Online faculty, students, staff and alumni.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About FHSU Online<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays State, founded in 1902,\nentered into distance education in 1911 when faculty voted to offer courses\nfree by mail so that one-room school teachers across western Kansas could\nafford to pursue the continuing education required to teach. The distance\neducation department created then evolved continuously with changing technology\nand culture. In 1997, the Department of Continuing Education and Instructional\nTechnology became the FHSU Virtual College, which was renamed FHSU Online in\n2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS FHSU Online \u2013 the distance education arm of Fort Hays State University \u2013 continues to meet the strict requirements of membership in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58556,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58555\/revisions\/58556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}