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Title: UNC system jumps into online courses -TIM SIMMONS AND JANE STANCILL,Raleigh News Post by: Mark David on June 12, 2007, 09:43:39 AM Educators who run the University of North Carolina system are hungry to enroll more students like Rob Gray. A physiologist at Duke University Hospital by day, he drives about 20 miles west each evening to Efland, where he eventually settles in for a few hours of classwork at the Rob Gray campus of East Carolina University. The location is better known as Gray's home, where he is earning an MBA online in addition to spending time with his wife and 2-year-old son. That type of interest has convinced UNC system leaders that it's time to launch the University of North Carolina Online. The system will better organize and market the courses and degrees it offers online, putting more than 90 programs on one Web site. The campaign takes aim at the nation's largest online institution, the University of Phoenix, with ads that boast: "All of our online degrees come from universities your prospective employer has actually heard of."
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