12 April
2005
Fox University begins instruction
Institution offers degrees to travelers
CHICAGO
-- Travel Fox, with a $66.4 million funding grant from the Bob Jones
University Alumni Foundation, has set up an international, independent study, life-experience, self-paced,
university accredited, interdenominational, clothing optional, college
curriculum exclusively for travelers.
The new school, Fox University†
will award bachelors,
masters and doctoral degrees. Besides the usual university majors
offered, FU also offers courses
of study tailored specifically for traveling adults. These courses include
Applied Governmental Survival, Hospitality Endurance, International
Commutation, Ground Service Representation (with a special internship in
Causticity), Marine Toxicology, Psychojournology, Terminal Fatigue and
Transmeridian Migration.
The first FU campus is scheduled to open this week in Terminal Two of
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Located across the concourse from Cinnabon,
the campus will offer classes between the hours of 11:00 am and 6:30 pm
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
According to the university catalog, "Courses are offered to meet the
needs of travelers' itineraries. Classes
are held in 20 minute segments—just long enough for attendance between
connecting flights."
In a telephone interview, Dr. Harold Bombsley, Dean of the university, told
Travel Fox, "as enrollment increases, classes will be added to our
O'Hare campus to accommodate traveler/students from early morning to
late evening, Mondays through Fridays. Moreover, we plan to open 17 additional
campuses in major airports, train depots and convention
centers around the country by the end of the year. And if our
projections about demand for in-transit education are on point, we
expect to move into the international transportation hubs of London,
Frankfurt, Dubai and Hong Kong by this time next year."
For more information about Fox University, visit the institution's
website at www.learnintransit.com.
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† Not affiliated with George Fox University
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