About Us

Message from the Associate Vice Chancellor | Mission and Goals | Accreditation

Extended Education & Outreach was started in 1997 to help each academic college participate in the University’s core mission of lifelong learning.

Here’s what we do at EE&O:

• We partner with UNL's academic colleges helping them to offer distance graduate programs
• We help professors create and manage distance courses for undergraduate programs of study
• We help busy undergraduate students get the credits they need, whether here at UNL or on the other side of the world
• We help Fire Safety professionals become certified with the help of area experts
• We offer an undergraduate certificate for culinology and food science professionals
• We help high school students supplement their local program or get an accredited diploma
• We enable high-ability high school students to earn college credits while they’re still in high school

 

A Message from the Associate Vice Chancellor
Welcome to the Office of Extended Education & Outreach (EE&O) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Web site. Here you will find information about UNL's 12 masters and 2 doctoral distance programs, the 4 certificate programs and 5 endorsement programs. The site has information about UNL's College Independent Study program, which offers more than 85 undergraduate and graduate credit and non-credit courses from 31 academic departments, as well as information about UNL's Summer Independent Study program that gives undergraduate students the opportunity to earn credit without having to be on campus during the summer.

You will also find information about UNL's Independent Study High School. High school students from grades 9 through 12 can choose from more than 160 online and print courses to supplement their local curriculum or earn an accredited diploma.

I invite you to explore this Web site further to gain greater awareness of UNL's distance education programs, student support services, faculty assistance and the people associated with them. I hope you will also sense UNL's strong commitment to providing high-quality distance education programs and student support services at an affordable price.

Arnold Bateman,
Associate Vice Chancellor

 

Mission Statement

The mission of Extended Education & Outreach is to facilitate the development of distance education as a core mission of the University in partnership with academic colleges, support service units and community leaders. This focus will:

Goals

• Support and encourage faculty efforts and innovation.

• Enhance student support services for distance learners.

• Facilitate collaborative partnerships among campuses of the University and with other educational institutions, organizations and businesses.

• Work with University and academic college administration to provide incentives for expanding the distance education efforts across broad segments of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

• Address policies that serve as barriers for the delivery and support of distance education.

• Seek resources necessary to sustain an engaged teaching and research distance education effort.

• Coordinate the technological base and infrastructures used to deliver distance education with Information Services, Nebraska Telecommunications and Cooperative Extension to assure effectiveness of resources.

• Deliver local and distance noncredit programs that meet the business and lifelong learning needs of Nebraska citizens.

• Identify and serve distance education target markets in Nebraska and the world in partnership with academic colleges and other organizations.

• Maintain and establish new partnerships with other university support services to enhance operations.

Accreditation

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools since the association first started accrediting colleges and universities in 1913. The University has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1909.

In addition, various colleges, schools, departments, and programs within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are accredited by their respective professional accrediting agencies (for example, architecture, business, engineering, journalism, nursing, psychology).

Click here to find out more about the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.