If you're passionate about teaching and learning and want to put your strong analytical, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills to work mentoring and empowering other educators, consider becoming an Instructional Coach through UL Lafayette's online programs.
Illness forced this budding biologist off course, but she was able to finish what she started through the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Online General Studies program.
If you’re unsure of your career path and want to have a good educational foundation in skills that can be beneficial in many different career paths, a general studies degree may be for you.
In addition to the obvious benefit of flexibility, the growth of online learning has been spurred by evidence showing it can be just as effective as face-to-face education. If you’re looking to advance your career and move into a leadership role in your profession, obtaining a graduate degree online carries a multitude of benefits.
Dorsey Steamer set a series of softball and track records at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the 1990s. Now, she's proudest of her diploma, earned online in 2016, some 23 years after her student days ended.
Gee Gee Rasmussen entered the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1967, but with just six credit hours short of graduation, life intervened. She left school to move to California with her husband, who had been drafted and joined the Navy. Fast-forward 40-plus years, and Rasmussen is now an official Ragin’ Cajun, thanks to the University’s online courses.
The ability to learn from anywhere and earn a degree by tapping into online courses and degree programs from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a winning combination for veterans and members of the military on active duty
Spring 2017 graduate and U.S. Navy veteran Whitney Utter combined traditional on-campus classes with online courses to complete his bachelor’s degree in communications. The Lafayette native encourages other veterans to consider online learning as a way to meet their educational goals.
Note: The Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing is offered only in an on-campus format.
She travels a lot for her work as a fundraising consultant, so when Andrea Essling read about an online graduate program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she knew it was for her. Now the proud owner of a Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing, she has this advice for other prospective students: “Jump in and do it!”
You’ve launched your job search and landed an interview. Now what?
Don’t try to “wing it” and go in unprepared, says Amy Chauvin of the Office of Career Services here at the University of Louisiana Lafayette.
Chauvin and the Career Services staff coach students through the job search process.
Earning a degree online can be a great way to advance your career while maintaining a full-time job.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette's online programs are great for those who don’t have the option of taking a hiatus, but even with that flexibility, obtaining an online degree while working can be a balancing act.
Here are some tips to achieve that coveted work-school-life balance. (Spoiler: Good planning is your best friend.)
