June 20, 2010
For Robert Morris U., the Nontraditional-Student Market Is New Again
Photo by John Beale
Darcy Tannehill will oversee nine new online programs at Robert Morris. "We're not targeting the 18-year-old student," she says.
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Photo by John Beale
Darcy Tannehill will oversee nine new online programs at Robert Morris. "We're not targeting the 18-year-old student," she says.
Moon Township, Pa.
Many colleges and universities have unlikely histories. Dartmouth College was founded to educate Native Americans, for instance, while Temple University grew out of a Baptist preacher's night classes for young men eager to enter the ministry themselves. And what is now the Colorado School of Mines was founded by an Episcopal bishop from Massachusetts.
In that context, Robert Morris University's origins—it was founded in 1921 as the for-profit Pittsburgh School of Accountancy,
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