Oregon State University Extended Campus - Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

In 2007 Oregon State University was accepted into the Natural Resources Distance Learning Consortium. Students from the consortium's other participating universities and federal agency members have access to OSU's online graduate natural resources courses.

OSU Extended Campus has also received awards from the University Continuing Education Association since 2002. Some of them include:

• March 2009: The Ecampus marketing team was the recipient of five awards at the University Continuing Education Association marketing an Publication conference. Gold awards were given for the OSU Summer Session 2008 Web site, a YouTube commercial for Ecampus online chemistry courses and for the marketing campaign for the Ecampus online chemistry courses and labs. Silver awards were given to the OSU Summer Session 2008 e-newsletter and a media release on Spanish-language Phytophthora training courses for nursery growers.
• April 2007: Bill McCaughan, who retired as dean of Extended Campus in December 2006, was awarded the Walton S. Bittner Citation for outstanding service to the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).
• April 2007: OSU Extended Campus was honored with the "Distance Learning Non-Credit Course Award" for the online course Human Resource Skills for Pharmacists, a collaboration with OSU's College of Pharmacy.
• April 2007: OSU Extended Campus won three marketing/publication awards.
• March 2005: OSU Ecampus graduate Christine Roberts was selected to receive the National Outstanding Continuing Education Student Award.

The OSU Ecampus Natural Resources online degree program won a national award for Excellence in Distance Education in 2003 and 2002 from ADEC, the American Distance Education Consortium .