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WSU online criminal justice degree ranks best in nation

WSU’s online criminal justice bachelor’s degree in the College of Arts and Sciences is the best nonprofit program in the nation, according to a new ranking by Criminal Justice Degree Online.

The group emphasized its thorough methodology:

“To reach number one, a program had to pass a gauntlet of tests: be a part of a university with stellar graduation and retention rates, provide more department resources than others, amaze us with useful answers to our survey and even answer more questions over the phone. WSU did it all.”

The group praised the faculty’s strong professional affiliations and found that the criminal justice program had the nation’s ninth highest graduation rate and 12th highest retention rate, as well as high placement in rankings from U.S. News and World Report, Forbes and Washington Monthly.

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Undergrad helps develop method to detect water on Mars

A Washington State University undergraduate has helped develop a new method for detecting water on Mars. Her findings appear in Nature Communications, one of the most influential general science journals.

Kellie Wall, 21, of Port Orchard, Wash., looked for evidence that water influenced crystal formation in basalt, the dark volcanic rock that covers most of eastern Washington and Oregon. She then compared this with volcanic rock observations made by the rover Curiosity on Mars’ Gale Crater.

The project was funded by the WSU College of Arts and Sciences’ Grants for Undergraduate Scholars and by the NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Scholarship in Science and Engineering.

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Arts and Sciences faculty webinars available online

The WSU Global Campus Digital Academy, a free educational resource open to the public, features hour-long webinars hosted by WSU faculty. Current offerings from CAS faculty (and a Ph.D. candidate) include discussions on mural making, dream analysis, home-brewed beer, and the role in history and literature of two iconic superheroes.

“College is about more than classes,” said Global Campus Vice President Dave Cillay. “It’s also about access to WSU’s wide range of extracurricular educational resources, whether it be the passion and expertise of our WSU faculty or the diversity of our cultural events.”

Learn more and register at open.wsu.edu

Global campus earns national award

Sloan Consortium
Sloan Consortium

The WSU Global Campus has been honored with a national award from the Sloan Consortium for its commitment to assessing and improving the quality of online education programs through quantitative application of five quality pillars: access, learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, student satisfaction and faculty satisfaction.

As it does for the WSU brick-and-mortar campuses, the College of Arts and Sciences provides a significant percentage of the coursework and instruction for the WSU Global Campus.

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