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"I never would have gone back to school if I couldn't go online," declares Jenn G.
As an elementary school teacher with a full personal life, Jenn required flexibility in a masters program. This New Jersey resident found just what she needed in an online Masters of Education program based all the way in Phoenix, Arizona at Grand Canyon University.
Name: Jenn Griffiths
Age: 28
Marital Status: Married
Location: New Jersey
Current Occupation: Elementary School Teacher
School: Grand Canyon University
Target: Master of Education, 2007
Jenn loves being a third-grade teacher—she couldn't picture herself doing anything else. A graduate of Bloomsburg University, she was working towards tenure two years ago when she set her sights on a master's degree.
Like most teachers, she knew she was not going to get rich teaching, but was looking for a way to make a labor of love a little more lucrative. Jenn knew one way to boost her earning power was to get an advanced degree.
But she also knew it would be tough to fit classes into her already busy schedule. Not only was she teaching full-time herself, but she was spending lots of time at after-school workshops in her quest for tenure. On top of that she was newly married.
"If I ever wanted to be home," Jenn says, "I couldn't add commuting to and sitting in college classes to that workload."
She didn't have to. Jenn had heard of Grand Canyon's online Masters of Education program through a colleague who was earning his masters in special education online. She liked what she learned about the university. Grand Canyon University is a regionally accredited university with both online and campus-based programs.
She says, "I liked that there was an actual college there."
The online program is no less rigorous than the program she would have encountered at the brick-and-mortar college.
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