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From the
President’s Desk


Allan Watson, Ph.D.

This past year has been an exciting time of rapid change. The Alliance for Higher Education is now located at 2602 Rutford Avenue in Richardson on the campus of The University of Texas at Dallas campus. Our technological capabilities are the best of what is available worldwide.

If you have received our Spring 2001 Course Catalog, you will see a change in terms of credit, noncredit, and certification courses and programs. This semester credit courses are offered by Southern Methodist University, Texas Tech University, and the University of North Texas.

If you are interested in upgrading your work skills, either in the technology arena or in management and professional development, now you can do this at your computer desktop. The Alliance for Higher Education has partnered with several content providers which have high quality courseware designed for self-paced or guided learning on-line, with CD-ROMs or videotapes. These courses are listed in our catalog as well.

Members also have access to the classrooms, meeting rooms, and origination and videotaping facilities in the Alliance’s new building. Our state-of-the-art distance learning center also includes a technology platform (television, Internet, fiber connections, streaming video, etc.) that can quickly and directly access worldwide corporate and academic locations.

There is also a new player in the high performance internetworking arena called Internet2. The Alliance for Higher Education is in the center of this flurry of activity with the launch of the Alliance Internet2 GigaPoP. Internet2 will support new distance education activities and collaborative research.

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