University of Phoenix

University of Phoenix (UOP) is a for-profit educational institution specializing in adult education, with campuses located throughout the United States (including Puerto Rico), Canada, and Mexico. UOP was founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling and is now owned by Apollo Group, Inc.. The University of Phoenix is the United States' largest for-profit school with both internet and campus-based programs.


History

San Jose State University in California, John Sperling and several associates conducted field-based research in adult education. The focus of the research was to explore teaching/learning systems for the delivery of educational programs and services to working adult students who wished to complete or further their education in ways that complemented both their experience and current professional responsibilities. At that time colleges and universities were organized primarily around serving the needs of the 18-22 year old undergraduate student given that the large majority of those enrolled were residential students of traditional college age, just out of high school. According to Sperling, working adult students were often "invisible" on traditional campuses and treated as second-class citizens.

University of Phoenix is the United States' largest private university, with 250,000 students, most of them working adults. Its parent company had $2.3 billion in revenue last year, ranking it among Arizona's largest companies.


University of Phoenix Stadium

The 73,000 seat University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona is a multipurpose retractable dome best known as the home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals and the site of the NCAA's Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. It is not a University facility but a municipal sports arena whose naming rights were bought by UOP for advertising purposes. The school agreed to pay $154.5 million for the 20-year arrangement shortly after the Stadium's construction in 2006.

The University of Phoenix's physical campuses serve only as classroom spaces and administrative offices. UOP does not organize any extracurricular student activities such as student publications, clubs, or intramural or intercollegiate sports.

University of Phoenix Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLII on February 3, 2008.


Modalities

Campus-based Learning: Students attend one class per week, usually in the evening for most degree programs; however, some campus locations offer daytime or weekend classes. Bachelor degree courses are five weeks long and master degree courses are six weeks long. Courses are worth three credits and are taken one at a time. Campus students also work closely together in small learning team group assignments.

Online Learning: Course work is completed entirely through electronic forums. Depending on a student's degree program level (Associate, Bachelor, Master, or Doctorate), class participation requirements range from three to five days per seven-day week; students can participate at any time on any three to five days. Facilitators will ask "discussion questions" in the classroom forums. Each student is required to respond to the Discussion Questions and can choose to respond to other students' responses. Aside from participation, students have one to two weekly assignments to complete and upload to their instructors' forum. All course materials are provided online in viewable and downloadable format.


Accreditation

regionally accredited by the The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. In British Columbia, the University of Phoenix was accredited by the Private Post-Secondary Education Commission (PPSEC) in 2002. That agency is now called the Private Career Training Institutions Agency (PCTIA).

University of Phoenix's business degree programs are accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs ACBSP. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing and the Master of Science in Nursing programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The Master of Counseling program in Community Counseling (in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona) and the Master of Counseling program in Mental Health Counseling (in Utah) are accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). The education degree programs are not accredited by NCATE.

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