NEW ORLEANS — At a time when gasoline prices are crimping budgets, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary has taken steps to ease the burden on students and make theological education more accessible.
The efforts include a new online commuter connection center to aid in establishing carpools, a one-year exemption of the online course restrictions for main campus students, and Wednesday schedule changes. The cost-saving steps are designed to relieve some of the financial strain on commuter students throughout the seminary system.
Through the online commuter connection forum, students may log in on the seminary’s secure Web system to find other commuters from their area. The user-friendly forum allows students throughout the seminary system to respond to carpooling requests and post new requests.
The lifting of online restrictions allowed on-campus and commuter students to take online classes.
And beginning with the fall semester, the seminary halted Wednesday chapel services on the main campus. The move opens the 11 a.m. period Wednesday for additional course offerings, making it easier for commuter students or other on-campus students to meet full-time course load requirements by taking classes just two days per week.
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