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Distance Degree students get real lab experience

Dr. Phil Mixter shows Robin Minietta microbes during the on-campus lab. (Photo by Brian Maki) The pathogens didn’t worry Robin Minietta. Her professor, Dr. Phil Mixter, had said that “immunocompetent” people are safe doing lab work for his Introductory Microbiology course.   Minietta could also handle the jet lag, which was brutal after the online […]

WSU offers new online major in accounting

PULLMAN – Beginning this summer, WSU is offering a new online major in accounting.  The College of Business worked with Distance Degree Programs to put the major online, creating the third new online business program in the last few months. WSU’s accounting undergraduate major is one of only 165 AACSB-accredited accounting baccalaureate programs worldwide, said […]

DDP to offer international business major

PULLMAN – Starting this spring, WSU Distance Degree Programs (DDP) students can go global with a major in international business.  “WSU’s strategic plan emphasizes preparing students to excel in a global society,” said Janet Kendall, director of academic programs at DDP, “and the new international business major supports this.” WSU’s International Business program, ranked 18th […]