1. MUS Distance Education Update As of November 2008 Student interest and online enrollments continue to grow at the campuses. Number of online courses and academic programs continue to grow at all campuses. Campuses continue to invest significantly in online course development and delivery. Attendant online related student services & support continues to expand at the campuses.

2. MUS Distance Education Published two quarterly centrally coordinated ads for online learning that included “hot/demand” courses and programs at each of the eleven campuses. Web statistics revealed an average of more than 1000 hits per week at the MUS web site: www.mus.edu/online www.mus.edu/online Live faculty training webinars by online MUS faculty revealed over 100 participants at the eleven campuses. More under development.

3. MUS Distance Education Reviewing BoR Policies to simply annual reporting, better use the technologies. Building a sustainable online faculty resource library of training webinars. Campuses share training, quality standards for online courses, economies of scale in securing licensed products. Piloting a business model template for sharing online courses/collaborations.