New Online Academic Programs

Colleges begin programs in early childhood education, cybersecurity, strategic management, health data analytics and instructional design.

By

Doug Lederman

April 24, 2019

Bank Street College of Education is launching new online master's programs in childhood dual certification in special and general education, early childhood dual certification, and childhood and early childhood special education certification.
Pennsylvania State University's World Campus is offering a new online master’s degree in strategic management and executive leadership.
The University of Louisville is establishing a new master's degree in health data analytics and a new certificate program in biostatistics, both of which are offered online and in person.
The University of Southern Mississippi is starting a new online master of arts degree in teaching.
The University of Vermont is creating an online degree-completion program to result in a bachelor's in anthropology.
The University of West Florida is beginning three new degree programs: an online master's in cybersecurity, a blended master's in engineering and a bachelor's of instructional design and technology.

Doug Lederman

Doug Lederman is editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed. He helps lead the news organization's editorial operations, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Doug speaks widely about higher education, including on C-Span and National Public Radio and at meetings and on campuses around the country, and his work has appeared in The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. Before that, Doug had worked at The Chronicle since 1986 in a variety of roles, first as an athletics reporter and editor. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one in 2009 for a series of Inside Higher Ed articles he co-wrote on college rankings. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University. Doug lives with his wife, Kate Scharff, in Bethesda, Md.