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Southern Miss to hold registration at Ingalls
By LYNN LOFTON

THE SUN HERALD


PASCAGOULA - USM will hold on-site registration today at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula.


The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast will make history today and Thursday by holding its first on-site registration at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems Ingalls Operations in Pascagoula.


If all goes well, the university plans to offer this service for future semesters and possibly at other locations.


"Our mission on all the Gulf Coast campuses is serving the needs of nontraditional students," said Ken Malone, USM-Gulf Coast's chief operating officer. "With 15,000 employees, Northrop Grumman has a high concentration of these potential students, and my goal is to make registration for them as easy as possible."


He said USM will have 15 people at the on-site registration and there is no quota for number of students registered.


The university representatives will be on-site from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Administration 2 Building and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the NGSS Engineering and Design Center.


"Northrop Grumman Ship Systems continues to strive for improvements that will further our employees' educational opportunities, and this is a prime example," said Bill Glenn, manager of communications.


USM-Gulf Coast offers day and night classes in Jackson County and at the Gulf Park campus in Long Beach. Evening classes are also offered at Keesler Air Force Base.



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Northrup Grummond is a PRIVATE industry, correct?



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Let's hope that the programs Malone registers them into actually exist!

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"Let's hope that the programs Malone registers them into actually exist!"
LOL!  Or we could just invent some! 

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In all honesty, it amazes me that USM has taken this long to get something rolling on-site at Northrup (Ingalls). They have a large number of folks in computing, logistics & drafting areas who really do need advanced training to keep up with the growing complexity of ship systems.

Is this a bold, innovative move by USM? I don't think so: Gulf Coast CC has been working with apprenticeship & special AAS degrees for Northrup/Ingalls employees for a couple of decades.

USM's version of "thinking outside the box" is to find somebody else's old box.

However, USM's tuition/fees are so much higher than the local community college that they are going to be recruiting mainly folks who already have associate degrees. Of course, there is the possibility that USM will simply refuse to transfer community college "core" courses, forcing anyone who ultimately wants to pursue a bachelor's to enroll with the university at considerably greater expense. This is more than a possibility; USM officials are already headed in that direction with their steadfast refusal to sign the state articulation agreement.

Innovative funding strategy: Rip off students who are already pushing the envelope financially.


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