Sentence examples for first degree program from inspiring English sources

In 2005 tenor pan virtuoso Liam Teague was hired at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb) to codirect, with tuner Cliff Alexis, the first degree program in steel pan performance at an American university.

Southern New Hampshire college boasts that its Gates Foundation-funded College For Amerisa Program is "the first degree program to completely decouple from the credit hour".

Clyde Foster, on loan from the space agency to all-black Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Huntsville, established the state's first degree program in computer science, a curriculum that fed a stream of graduates into MSFC.

First, degree programs have been established at the undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. levels.

Candidates applying for postgraduate diploma programs should possess the minimum entry requirements for admission into the first-degree programs in nutrition, agriculture or a related field.

The first undergraduate degree program was not instituted until 1991.

At Drexel University, for instance, where we offered our first online degree program in 1996, about 5,000 of our nearly 25,000 students are enrolled through Drexel eLearning.

Before becoming provost, he was the popular dean of the school of engineering, where he developed its first online degree program -- a master's in electrical engineering -- and increasingly offered online classes.

In the 1980s, Livingston and a small group of faculty members founded the nation's first undergraduate degree program in cognitive science.

In the early 1960s, he became founding chairman of what is now the department of biomedical informatics at the University of Utah, the first degree-granting program in the field.

That movement gained momentum under author and editor Lee Gutkind, who organized an annual creative nonfiction writing workshop at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, helped establish one of the first U.S. degree programs in creative nonfiction, founded the journal Creative Nonfiction, and published several anthologies.