Saint Leo University has been approved as an educational partner by the FBI National Academy Associates, a non-profit professional group of 17,000 members who are high-ranking law enforcement officers nationally and internationally. The associates specifically sought recognized institutions that would be able to offer its members high-quality undergraduate and graduate courses and degree programs.
Finding a job remains difficult in the current market, but new research shows a glimmer of hope for 2009 graduates who do land jobs. The glimmer appears on the paycheck. Grads’ starting salaries are still holding at around the same level as the starting pay offered to 2008 grads. In better years, it is true, new grads hope the starting salaries go up, rather than hold steady or lose a few percentage points. But bear in mind that in the current economy many people who are able to hold onto their jobs in challenged workplaces, in both the public and private sectors, are having their pay cut, so this is good news.
Saint Leo Orientation
The main campus just hosted another successful summer orientation session for traditional-age students enrolling in college or university for the first time. New-student orientation is held in July, and gives our incoming freshmen an even better sense of campus life than they have gained from previous visits. The students get to stay in dorms, get campus tours and briefings from student-volunteers, take academic placement tests, and learn about student activities.
Earn Your BA in Psychology From Saint Leo
One of the most popular undergraduate majors at Saint Leo University’s main campus and Continuing Education Centers (as well as at colleges in general) can now be earned online. Saint Leo’s full-time psychology faculty members have completed the big job of taking the 13 most essential courses (required courses and most popular electives) they teach in traditional classrooms and creating online versions.
The U.S. Department of Education is saying what many Saint Leo students have said for years: that students who take online college courses often performed better academically than their student counterparts taking face-to-face courses, according to the publication Inside Higher Ed. A big part of differing outcomes may be that online students spend more time with the material. Also important: the report doesn’t endorse online over classroom instruction as a better teaching method, as the evidence suggests the differences in grades are more attributable to the learners’ longer hours of studying. Students in “blended” courses, ones that combine both online instruction and class time, seemed to do the best of all academically.
