{"id":16723,"date":"2024-06-10T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=16723"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T20:17:56","slug":"elizabethtown-college-school-of-graduate-and-professional-studies-extends-tuition-discount-to-montgomery-county-school-district-educators-and-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/elizabethtown-college-school-of-graduate-and-professional-studies-extends-tuition-discount-to-montgomery-county-school-district-educators-and-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College School of Graduate and Professional Studies Extends Tuition Discount to Montgomery County School District Educators and Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, Elizabethtown College\u2019s School of Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) announced a partnership with <\/span>Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU)<\/span><\/a> to offer a 15% discount on tuition for undergraduate and graduate-level programs that enhance their skills and professional development of employees and their spouses and dependents, as well as the employees of the school districts served by MCIU.<\/span><\/p>\n

The partnership includes over 125 eligible public and nonpublic school districts, career and technology centers, and charter schools from throughout Montgomery County. <\/span>A full list of eligible school districts can be viewed on etown.edu.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe educators and employees in Montgomery County provide incredible value to the community and next generations of lifelong learners,\u201d Elizabethtown College SGPS Director of Corporate Partnerships, Chris D\u2019Imperio said. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to be able to give back to them through greater access to the educational opportunities and benefits offered through Etown\u2019s School of Graduate & Professional Studies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The tuition discount will apply to SGPS undergraduate and graduate-level programs, as well as the micro-credentialing platform<\/span> Etown Edge<\/span><\/a>, which offers over 300 affordable courses through self-paced modules across a variety of in-demand fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

Etown\u2019s School of Graduate and Professional Studies also offers several programs specific to the education field, including its newly announced <\/span>Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Educational Leadership<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Graduate Certificate in Higher Education<\/span><\/a> which will begin offering courses in August 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For more than 70 years, SGPS has had a direct and positive impact on the workforce and economy of both Lancaster County and throughout the southcentral Pennsylvania region by offering convenient and flexible undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as micro-credential options specifically designed to meet the needs of busy working adults. Courses are taught by faculty who are working professionals in the fields in which they teach, ensuring that content is current and highly applicable.<\/span><\/p>\n

SGPS works together with corporate, educational, and community partners from around the region to help build a powerful workforce and advance the careers of learners through the affinity partner program. Learn more about Elizabethtown College\u2019s <\/span>School of Graduate and Professional Studies.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, Elizabethtown College\u2019s School of Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) announced a partnership with Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU) to offer a 15% discount on tuition for undergraduate and graduate-level programs that enhance their skills and professional development of employees and their spouses and dependents, as well as the employees of the school districts served […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":16724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[63,197,1350,2284,2282,2283,1419],"class_list":["post-16723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-education","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-mciu","tag-montgomery-county","tag-montgomery-county-intermediate-unit","tag-sgps","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16727,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16723\/revisions\/16727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}