KCVU Nominated for Computerworld Smithsonian Award

March 23, 2000 -

The Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University, one of the most ambitious and successful startups of online postsecondary education in the country has been nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award.

The Computerworld Smithsonian Program highlights people, organizations and institutions that use information technology to spur social, economic and educational change. Source materials about the KCVU will become part of the collection of the Smithsonian Institute's Natinal Museum of American History and eventually will be available through the program's Internet site. BellSouth nominated the virtual university.

The virtual university, in just its second term, offered 150 courses on line and has more than 1,500 students. The KCVU connects Kentucky colleges and universities with students, many of them working and raising families, who can't get to classrooms. Created by the General Assembly as part of landmark postsecondary-education reform legislation in 1997, the virtual university will help institutions enroll, retain and graduate more students. Said Mary Beth Susman, the virtual university's chief executive officer: "Thanks to the involvement of educational, government and corporate institutions in Kentucky, the KCVU - along with the companion virtual library and virtual high school - is one of the hallmarks of reforms to increase learning by residents of all ages."

Please visit the university's Web site at www.kcvu.org for more information.

Contact:
Sue Patrick, KYVU
(502) 573-1555
sue.patrick@kyvu.org

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