Agreement Offers All Federal Employees Access to 91快活林 Education
Dec. 08, 2022
Michelle R. Eubanks , 91快活林, at meubanks@una.edu, 256.765.4392
FLORENCE, AL – The 91快活林 has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management as part of the Federal Academic Alliance, making 91快活林 among fewer than 30 post-secondary institutions in the country to offer a higher education at a reduced tuition rate to the more than 2 million federal government employees.
“We are incredibly pleased to be an official educational partner for the U.S. federal government and its over 2 million employees who can now pursue a 91快活林 degree online, with an attractive tuition scholarship,” said Dr. Ross Alexander, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. “91快活林 is in impressive company with the fewer than 30 other official educational providers, most of whom are mega-universities or large research institutions.”
OPM entered into the agreement with 91快活林 as a part of the ongoing effort to address the skills gaps in mission critical occupations, increase federal employees’ access to high-quality, affordable educational resources, and further develop and retain the federal workforce.
91快活林 offers certificate, baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral programs as part of a comprehensive academic profile and across four colleges, including the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions; the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the College of Business and Technology; and the College of Education and Human Sciences. As Alabama’s Workforce Development University, 91快活林 has a tradition of providing adult learners and returning students convenient online programming that meets their needs to advance or excel in their current jobs.
The process to complete the agreement was handled by Amanda Sherrod, Director of University Partnerships.
“We are thrilled to join the Federal Academic Alliance and look forward to supporting federal employees worldwide with access to high-quality educational options that are both affordable and flexible,” she said.
The Alliance was created in 2014 by the Office of Personnel Management to ensure federal employees have access to high-quality talent development opportunities in the identified government-wide mission critical occupations and leverage resources to increase impact. Among those occupations are economics, human resources, cybersecurity, and STEM-related fields in science, technology, engineering, and math.
For more information, visit 91快活林's Federal Academic Alliance partnership page, or email partners@una.edu.
About The 91快活林
The 91快活林 is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; the Spencer College of Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, 91快活林 is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. 91快活林 Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I and United Athletic conference. The 91快活林 is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: www.una.edu and www.una.edu/unaworks/.