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A unique event in higher education occurred in response to Hurricane Katrina (and later Rita), which struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005. Using online learning, colleges and universities from across the country responded in record numbers to help students and institutions impacted by the storms. Dubbed "Sloan Semester" the initiative provided free online courses to students impacted by the storm.

A look back at the Sloan Semester Initiative...

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) provides a retrospective on the Sloan Semester Initiative: information about how it was established, how it worked, who participated, and the students who were served. The site includes links to an archived version of the Sloan Semester Catalog, a case study of the project, data about participants and lessons learned.

The Sloan Consortium hopes the site will serve as both an opportunity to look back...and to be thinking ahead to the next time circumstances demand our community to respond. We know, from this experience, they will again.

The Sloan Semester was a vibrant and vitally important undertaking that required the immediate attention of a group of dedicated educators. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, through its sponsorship of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), financed this worthwhile initiative that helped Hurricane Katrina—and Rita—affected higher education students continue with their education in an online modality, as their institutions were forced to temporarily close down for the Fall 2005 semester. A chain of educated decisions, along with the appropriate infrastructure and team of professionals, successfully moved this initiative forward in a quick and unprecedented time frame, "on the fly."

Learn more about the Sloan Semester initiative by visiting www.sloan-c.org.

Brief Overview of the Sloan Semester Initiative...

Sloan-C member institutions created a fully functional "virtual" institution in 21 days.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported the initiative with a $1.1 million dollar grant.
Sloan Semester made more than 1,350 courses from over 150 institutions in 38 states available to over 1,750 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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