WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Strayer University, an accredited institution of higher education for working mature students, celebrates its 130th anniversary by honoring the university’s legacy of championing change for the benefit of students. Since its founding in 1892, Strayer has been focused on providing students with accessible and affordable degree offerings, career-relevant curricula, and innovative technologies that advance learning.
Strayer offers flexible online undergraduate and graduate programs and career-focused concentrations. For decades, career preparation has remained a mainstay of the university’s educational model – beginning with efforts to equip farmers with business skills in the 1900s and extending to the provision of training in on the job in the 1960s, when most education was confined to the classroom.
As an advocate for inclusivity, Strayer has also prepared women for the workforce since the early 1900s and continues to be a champion of diversity today. In 2021, 72% of students were female and 67% of Strayer students identified as black or African American, Hispanic or Latino or Asian.
“Strayer was really ahead of its time in providing vocational training for women nearly a century ago, when women didn’t have many opportunities to grow professionally,” said Andréa Backman, President of Strayer University. “Today, we continue to provide economic and academic support to diverse populations that have traditionally been underserved. I am immensely proud to be part of an institution that has a tradition of valuing inclusiveness. »
To further support student success, Strayer has incorporated technology into its academic programming since the 1990s, when it began offering courses online while other universities were still exploring the Internet. They continued to offer interactive course content and introduced supports designed to keep students engaged in the decades that followed. Now leveraging a virtual assistant, Irving, named after the founder of the university, which helps busy students save time and focus on their studies by quickly dealing with administrative tasks. Additionally, Strayer Studios, a production arm of the university, infuses the course curriculum with short films produced by award-winning filmmakers, making it easier for students to understand and remember what they have learned.
For 130 years, Strayer University has expanded access to education by providing affordable options for today’s learners, while advancing change to better support its students. Their commitment to reinventing education has helped more than 150,000 students from all walks of life graduate.
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About Strayer University
Founded in 1892, Strayer University is an institution of higher learning for working adult students. It offers flexible and affordable undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration (including the Jack Welch Management Institute MBA), accounting, information technology, education, health services, administration public and criminal justice, as well as non-degree web and mobile application development. courses through Hackbright Academy and Devmountain. Strayer University is an accredited institution and a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), www.msche.org. The accreditation status of Strayer University is Accreditation Reaffirmed. MSCHE recently reaffirmed Strayer University’s accreditation status in June 2017, with the next self-study assessment scheduled for the 2025-2026 academic year. MSCHE is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). For more information, visit http://www.strayer.edu.
