LIBERTY STUDENT NEWS

Liberty University is checking-in to the Lynchburg Inn and Conference Center starting Friday. It will house the school’s growing distance learning program. It will be used to host one-week intensive classes for online students. Liberty will lease the hotel for one year. After that, there is a good possibility the hotel will be donated to Liberty. This is hotel was once used before for the first year East Campus Residents. The dorms weren’t ready and they had to use the hotel to accommodate the students.

- A 20,000-square-foot student lounge in the LaHaye Student Center – set for an August completion.

- A perimeter road to- only a few weeks from completion.

- A few of the college’s older dorms re-done

- Elmer Towns Alumni Ministry Training Center.

- 20,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble Evangelical Superstore next to the School of Religion.

- two indoor soccer fields attached to the LaHaye Student Center.

Liberty University online M.B.A. program is rated among the nation’s best buys by a respected national Web-based clearinghouse dedicated exclusively to showcasing accredited online degrees.

Liberty’s online M.B.A. (master of business administration) program is rated No. 38 in GetEducated.com’s ”Top 40 Ranked Best Buys-Online Graduate M.B.A.” programs. The Web-based business is located in Essex Junction, VT.

A “best buy” designation indicates that a program has been reviewed and judged to offer a high-quality distance M.B.A. to a national audience at tuition rates well below the national average. The rankings are based upon tuition costs of 168 accredited, distance-learning and online M.B.A. degree programs.

30,000 applications have come through the Recruitment office at Liberty University. That list is down to 5,000 students who say they are committing, but only the first 3,500 to finish the application process by June 30th will be in. The rest will go on a waiting list.

Administators plan to notify students on the wait list about their status for the fall by July 15th.

LU have been put on hold the selection of a company to bring a new wireless Internet service to Lynchburg.

A Liberty University is waiting for Sprint and Clearwire to complete the formation of their new, national WiMAX network.

Meanwhile, discussions with other service providers that have expressed interest are ongoing.

A WiMAX system is an emerging wireless Internet technology that offers better security and signal range than WiFi.

In February, Liberty University and Virginia School of the Arts announced a partnership to bring the service to Lynchburg.

Each school had some licenses for broadcast channels — formerly used for educational television — to lease out.

They were looking for bids from companies that could provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access to Liberty students plus regular access to other Lynchburg area residents.

On May 7 Clearwire and Sprint announced a joint venture to combine their WiMAX business segments to create a new company.