MEPP Awards

MEPP has won five top national and international awards for excellence in distance learning and continuing education. These honors include two awards from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) and awards from the Sloan Consortium, the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) and the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC).

In November 2004 the Sloan Consortium chose MEPP for its Most Outstanding Online Teaching and Learning Program Award. Sloan-C selected MEPP for its top award based on MEPP's exceptional performance in: student satisfaction, learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, faculty satisfaction and access. These criteria define Sloan's "pillars of excellence" for distance education. Sloan-C* is an association of more than 450 institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

In 2003, UCEA* awarded MEPP with its highest programming award, the Outstanding Program Award-Credit Category. MEPP was chosen from a field of both campus-based and distance-delivered credit programs in all disciplines from across North America. The award honors excellence in achieving education objectives and recognizes MEPP's application-oriented curriculum, team-based learning approach and use of distance delivery to bring graduate education to working professionals.

MEPP also earned UCEA's Distance Learning Community of Practice Program of Excellence Award. The award honors a distanced-delivered program that is innovative and exemplary in meeting the needs of students.

In April 2003 the USDLA* chose MEPP for their Excellence in Distance Learning Programming Award in the Higher Education Category. This award recognizes the MEPP program as a model of good practice, acknowledging the contribution MEPP has made to the field of distance learning.

MEPP received an honorable mention for the American Distance Education Consortium's* National Excellence in Distance Education Award in 2002. ADEC selected MEPP as a runner-up for its highest award after evaluating more than 50 programs in terms of instructional design, innovative use of technology, collaboration across traditional boundaries, and learner outcomes and satisfaction.