October 31, 2010
Mapping a Virtual Future at Penn State
Yunghi Kim for The Chronicle
Patrick J. Kennelly, an assistant professor of geography, teaches an online class in geography-information-systems project management each semester for Penn State from his home campus, Long Island U.
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Yunghi Kim for The Chronicle
Patrick J. Kennelly, an assistant professor of geography, teaches an online class in geography-information-systems project management each semester for Penn State from his home campus, Long Island U.
Pennsylvania State University offers one of the country's top programs in geographic information systems—the study of maps and other geographic data. But potential students for the program are scattered across the world, and few can relocate to University Park, Pa.
So Penn State came to them instead.
Since it began in 1999, the university's online GIS program has enrolled more than 3,000 master's and certificate students, and it has brought in more than $2-million in net
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