Columbia Southern University, in Orange Beach, Alabama, USA, is a privately held for-profit distance education institution of higher education. It offers associate, bachelor, graduate and postgraduate programs in fields including fire science, criminal justice, business administration, information technology, human resource management, organizational leadership, and occupational safety and health.
Read more about Columbia Southern University: Accreditation and Approvals, Faculty and Agreements With Other Institutions, History
Famous quotes containing the words columbia, southern and/or university:
“Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)
“... as a result of generations of betrayal, it’s nearly impossible for Southern Negroes to trust a Southern white. No matter what he does or what he suffers, a white liberal is never established beyond suspicion in the hearts of the minority.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 10 (1962)
“I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)