Western Governors University (WGU) is a private, charitable, online American college situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. The college was established by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the thought was formed at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association.
The college utilizes a competency-based learning model, with understudies working online as a team with staff tutors, with whom regular telephone correspondence is kept, and taking delegated tests online by means of webcam and other internet delegating advancements.
Robert Mendenhall is the current college president. The college has the qualification of having been the first and final college to get local accreditation all the while from four territorial certifying commissions. (Today its accreditation is through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.)
It was likewise the first online college to have its instructor planning projects authorize by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the specific certifying body for educator arrangement.
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