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| Library & Bookstore |
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WGU Merchandise
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Students, faculty, alumni, and friends of WGU can acquire WGU apparel and other
merchandise through the services of Brown and Bigelow .
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Click here to link to the online store.
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WGU Library
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The WGU Central Library is available to WGU students 24 hours a day. It is a joint project with the University of New Mexico General Library. The WGU Central Library offers access to full-text articles from periodical journals, magazines, and newspapers through the First Search, Ingenta, and ProQuest ABI/Inform indexes. WGU students may search the WGU Central Library to locate books on a given subject by using the LIBROS Web Catalog. Once a student locates a book they want to use in their research, the student uses the WGU Central Library ILLiad interlibrary loan service to have the book delivered to their home.
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The library is only available to WGU students and faculty.
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Dell Computer Purchase Program
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WGU students are entitled to special
discounts on Dell Computer products through the Dell Student Purchase Program.
The prices available to WGU students are lower than prices available to the
general public through the main Dell Web site.
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Click on a question above. See the answer here.
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"Competency-based…"
"I like the idea of a competency-based program. In some areas I already had expertise and skills so I could take an independent study class and build the portfolio and take the exams. In other areas I needed more instruction."
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| —Gretchen Burr, WGU graduate, high school teacher |
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"I am an expert…"
"Western Governors has raised the bar for online courses. Instead of graduating from their courses and saying, "I have passed all of the requirements," they want their students to say, "I graduated from WGU and I am an expert in the field of..."
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| —Jeffrey Cravy, WGU graduate student |
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"Competency-based…"
"Google has pioneered the idea of access to information. The reason Google thinks WGU is such a good idea is because WGU has pioneered the concept of competency-based education whenever you want it."
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| —Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc. |
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more testimonials > |
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