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5/23/2011 3:03 pm

This week is a big week for the WGU community as we prepare to launch WGU Washington on Thursday – and the week kicked off first thing Monday morning with news in the Seattle Times and the Puget Sound Business Journal announcing the leader who will take the reins as WGU Washington Chancellor: Jean Floten, current President of Bellevue College.

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5/20/2011 10:22 am

The WGU community just keeps getting bigger. In fact, this month we’ve reached two major milestones: We now have 25,000 students, and more than 10,000 students have completed an online bachelor’s or master’s degree since WGU’s inception.

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5/10/2011 1:07 pm

WGU students have two more reasons to be proud of being part of the WGU community. Last week, the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) recognized WGU with two awards for excellence in distance learning.

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5/3/2011 12:02 pm

Our Facebook “Like” sweepstakes, which launched in December, has already made a Kindle winner of Jessica Crawford, a WGU Teachers College student from Warren, Pennsylvania, who won her prize when the WGU Facebook page reached 6,000 fans. Up next: We’ll give away an iPad when we hit 8,000 Facebook fans.

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