LINCOLN- Two years after the movement of classes to zoom due to Covid-19, 9 out of 10 UNL students still enroll in at least one online course.

Online courses have allowed students to increase credit hours and has fueled 4-year graduation rates to their highest levels in a decade.

UNL will aim to build on those successes by creating a new administrative position to work with faculty, staff and administrators to develop credit and non-credit programs, identify new market areas and grow enrollment.

That means creating online courses for high school students seeking to earn college credit, ensuring the online course catalog is robust enough to meet the needs of UNL's students seeking to earn credit over the summer, and developing offerings for individuals in the workforce seeking to acquire new skills.

UNL had an online program before called NU online. NU Online enrolled 5,500 Nebraskans and 8,000 others from every state in the U.S. during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As other schools saw the need for online courses, NU online began losing students and spending more many than was needed.

This prompted UNL to end NU online and begin to focus on this new program that is focused on Nebraska online education rather then national.

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