On January 28, 2006 Colorado Governor Roy Romer was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Human Letters by WGU President Robert Mendenhall and Chairman of the WGU Board of Trustees and Governor of Wyoming Jim Geringer. This video contains both the awarding of the honorary degree and the commencement address. This WGU Commencement was held at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Article from "CAEL Forum and News" authored by Chip Johnstone, Provost and Academic Vice President, Western Governors University. This article was published circa March 2006.
Article from "National Crosstalk" discussing WGU. This article was published in the Spring 2006. "National Crosstalk" is a publication of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
Press release from WGU, published in "Utah Business Magazine," discussing the donation of initial funds to launch the WGU College of Health Professions.
Article from "Education Daily" discussing the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education's (NCATE) decision to award accreditation to WGU.
Article from "The Chronicle of Higher Education." Robert Mendenhall, president of WGU, answered reader questions during a "Brown Bag" hosted by "The Chronicle of Higher Education."
Article from "Education Week" describing the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education's (NCATE) awarding of accreditation to WGU. From "Education Week" volume 26, number 14.
From the Foreword: This book about WGU's opening decade is, of course, the story of how the university has implemented its founders' visions. It is also, however, the story of an innovation, how that innovation arose and unfolded, its mistakes and failures, what it learned from them, and how ultimately it prevailed. Innovation is never easy, perhaps especially educational innovation is never easy. Nine hundred years of tradition lean against it. In countless ways the code of right practice, established by generations of bureaucracy and enforced by all the conventional structures of modern educational life - from the definition of terms and credits to financial aid regulations - line up to force compliance with accepted orthodoxy. That WGU survived at all is extraordinary. That it remained true to the heart of its mission, created a unique learning model, earned multiple accreditations, and today serves more than seven thousand enrolled students is a story worth telling. This is it.