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Faculty Spotlight: Building a network for student success

October 7, 2020  ·  2 minutes  ·  By Carly Fredericks

There’s a big team of people at Oregon State that makes it possible for us to deliver classes online and for students to have the support and materials they need to learn.

One of those people is James Howard, the manager of academic materials for the OSU Beaver Store. Part of his job is to make Oregon State Ecampus course materials easy to access for our students, no matter their location. He’s an award-winning Oregon State Ecampus campus partner, and he’s not the only one at OSU. Ecampus has a network of 1,300+ faculty and staff partners across the entire university landscape. That network stretches from the boundaries of our Corvallis campus to those in Bend and Newport and even to instructors who’ve moved closer to their research areas.

At Oregon State, we’re focused on high-quality education. Collaborators like James allow us to make sure students are confident at the beginning of each term by ensuring they have the course materials they need on day one. Our Open Educational Resources Unit works with James and OSU faculty to source, adopt, adapt and author openly licensed materials in an effort to lower the cost of quality content for Oregon State students. That unit, along with those faculty partners work make course expenses less of a stress for Oregon State students. Course materials are just the start, though.

We equip our online students with access to an abundance of support options ranging from Ecampus success coaching to university resources like academic and mental health counseling, financial aid consultation and help finding a job after graduation.

Because, at Oregon State, student success is our top priority. When you contact us, we’ll answer. You’ll get a person like James Howard on the other end, knowledgeable and eager to help.

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Carly Fredericks

Carly Fredericks is a writer for Oregon State University Ecampus. She specifically writes pieces for those who are considering pursuing their degree online in the hopes to answer questions that they may have along the way. Her writing style and subject area expertise come from personal experience with online education and curiosity about how to improve the student experience. Carly has been at OSU since early 2020, coming from a position in Iowa State University's Department of World Languages and Cultures. Originally from Iowa, Carly landed at Oregon State Ecampus through a love for higher education and an interest in the growing field of online education. She also has an enthusiasm for data and a passion for creating a more accessible and just world. Carly has a master's in strategic communications which she completed online from the University of Iowa and a bachelor's degree in Spanish and linguistics from Iowa State University.

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