Why Should You Attend Monroe Online?
Because you work full time but need new skills to advance. Because you have young kids and can’t make it to class. Because you want to change your life but have too many obligations and not enough time.
Why Online Education? In today’s busy world, there are a hundred reasons. Why Monroe? Because an online program is only as good as the college offering it. Since 1933, Monroe has been focused on providing practical, real world education in an environment of unsurpassed support and encouragement.
Online learning is just the latest innovation in that commitment. One that takes seven decades of academic excellence and makes it available 24/7. Leave behind the outdated notions of the classroom you once knew. Today, that class meets wherever you are, whenever you’re free. And, perhaps, not in a room at all. It’s time to log on to a better future. Welcome to Monroe Online.
History
The moment you log on as a Monroe Student, you are part of a tradition that goes back seven decades. Back in 1933 our history began with four classrooms and seven students as the Monroe College of Business, in the West Farms Section of the Bronx. Through the leadership of Founder Mildred King and Harry Jerome, the college continued to grow and expand steadily. But after WWII, that steady growth exploded as thousands of returning GIs and Americans on the home front found themselves in need of new skills for careers that would define post-war America.
One of these was something new called data processing, using punch card technology. In the sixties, punch cards turned into IBM computers and, consistent with its mission of real world relevance, Monroe opened a computing division. In the late sixties, swelling enrollment and a need for better facilities led to the opening of the current Fordham campus.
In addition to academic relevance and real world education, Monroe has always been a genuine family of support and encouragement to it students; a quality evident through the consistent leadership of the Jerome Family. When Harry retired in 1978 after decades of dedicated service, his son Stephen took over as president of the college – a position he holds to this day. The eighties saw the addition of a new, suburban campus in New Rochelle designed to serve the Westchester community as well as be a campus home to Monroe’s growing international community. Through the nineties, Monroe continued to expand its curriculum with those courses and skills most in demand by employers.
The college kept expanding too, with the addition of new buildings and facilities each year. In 1998, at the forefront of the digital age, Monroe offered its first distance learning class. Today, that program offers multiple online courses and, with the advent of broadband and WIFI technology, the term “distance learning” has been revised to “anywhere” learning. For the Monroe campus of the 21st century is anywhere our students can log on, anytime they are able to do so. Education has changed forever. As it always has, Monroe will continue to change with it.
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