Summer 2010 - Wayne State College

Campus NotesDalager NamedDean atWayne StateDr. Jon DalagerDr. Jon Dalager has been named as Deanof the School of Natural and Social Sciencesat Wayne State College. Dalager receivedhis bachelor’s degree from the University ofMinnesota at Morris, his law degree fromthe University of Minnesota, and his Ph.D.in political science from the University ofIllinois at Champaign-Urbana.“I wanted to work for a school thatwas committed to providing outstandingopportunities to its students, that wasfinancially stable, and had an excellentreputation as a college or university,” Dalagersaid. “I also wanted to work at a smallerliberal arts college where the students andfaculty knew each other.”He has been a member of the facultyat Georgetown College in Georgetown,Ky., since 1996 and has been chair of theDepartment of Political Science since 1999.Dalager has extensive experience in campusgovernance and has served as the facultyrepresentative to the Board of Trustees, thechair of the Social Sciences Division, thechair of the Curriculum Committee, the chairof the Institutional Effectiveness Committee,and has served on a number of othercommittees and task forces.“I was most impressed with the peopleI met during my campus visit. They were allvery dedicated to Wayne State College andI look forward to working with the facultyand staff to continue to bring good programsto the students and to develop new academicprograms so that Wayne State can keep itsstudents prepared for the global economy andchanging technologies,” Dalager said.As an expert in higher education law,Dalager has published articles and madepresentations on legal issues in facultyrecruitment and hiring, faculty evaluationprocedures, and the legal significance of thefaculty handbook.Dalager said he grew up in a collegetown of 5,000 residents (Morris, Minn., homeof the University of Minnesota at Morris), soWayne will be very much like going home.“My wife grew up in Breckenridge,Minn., which had a population of 3500, soshe is familiar with small towns as well,” hesaid. “What makes Wayne special is that itwill provide a small town atmosphere withthe extraordinary opportunities provided bythe college, and it is still relatively close tolarger cities such as Sioux City and Omaha(Morris was 4 hours from Minneapolis).”“I like to do a lot of activities with mychildren including skiing, camping, hiking,fishing, and traveling,” Dalager added. “Iused to play golf when I was a lawyer and amlooking forward to returning to that activity,and I am a huge soccer fan. I watch mydaughter play and I am a fan of ManchesterUnited in the English Premier League. Iam looking forward to the World Cup thissummer (Go USA!)”Online MBA Program Ranked No. 1 for AffordabilityWayne State’s online MBA program has grown steadily insize and reputation since being approved by the Higher LearningCommission in 2007. The college is excited to announce thatGetEducated.com, a consumer group that reviews and ranks onlineuniversities for cost, quality, and credibility, has ranked Wayne StateNo. 1 nationwide for the affordability of its program.The online university cost rankings of the top best values inonline MBAs are based on a comprehensive, independent surveyof 90 regionally-accredited business schools that offer 250 MBAdegrees via distance education. Wayne State College earned an “A” inaffordability for its general online MBA.Total degree cost: about $6,750. By comparison,the average cost for an online master’s in business(regionally accredited category) is $22,924.“Distance learning has made higher education more accessiblenationwide,” said Vicky Phillips, GetEducated.com’s founder, “butcost remains a huge inhibiting factor. Wayne State College offersonline students nationwide a high-quality master’s degree throughdistance learning for close to one-quarter the cost of the nationalaverage. That’s an amazing value proposition.”8“While public universities often charge more for out-of-statestudents, learners nationwide can enroll at WSC online and enjoyone low distance-learning tuition rate, yet sacrifice nothing in termsof quality,” Phillips said. “In return, they gain access to a businessschool that carries regional accreditation, an accreditation statusconsidered by many to be the hallmark for residential degree grantinguniversities.”“We are especially delighted to add new affordable businessprograms like Wayne State College to our online university directory,”Phillips said. “State schools often do little or no advertising online.The distance learning research staff at GetEducated.com is dedicatedto finding and showcasing these gems of affordability for onlinestudents.”WSC is one of 11 new regionally-accredited business schoolsGetEducated.com added to their 2010 Best Online MBA rankings.Founded in 1989, GetEducated.com is a consumer group that reviewsand ranks online university degree programs along the dimensionsof cost, quality and credibility. The group issues report cards onaccredited online degree programs in an effort to bring transparencyto the online education selection process in terms of cost, publicperception and student satisfaction.