East Central University

East Central University, in partnership with Cameron University, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, will develop the Westward Expansion Project to meet the workforce needs of 156 isolated, rural school districts located in thirty counties in the western half of Oklahoma. Distance learning technology will be used to expand an existing library media specialist program into this area of Oklahoma, based on East Central University’s existing distance education model that has already facilitated the successful expansion of the program into six remote sites throughout the southeast quadrant of the state.