{"id":189,"date":"2012-03-21T23:35:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marstella.net\/?p=189"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:35:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:35:02","slug":"education-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Education, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently enrolled with Columbia College (<a title=\"Columbia College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccis.edu\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ccis.edu<\/a>) to work on my Computer Information Systems bachelor&#8217;s degree, following a successful 2010 graduation with a Business Administration associate&#8217;s degree. Classes began on Monday (Ethics and Programming I), which should keep me busy for the next couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia College is nice in that they are regionally accredited, offer a brick-and-mortar presence with real sports teams, and do not market their degrees as &#8220;on-line&#8221; like so many other institutions. Further, my experience was that the classes were at least as comprehensive as those I attended at the University of Kentucky several years prior. Oh, did I mention that they are very veteran friendly and provide a lower cost per year than many other institutions? Depending on your goals, Columbia College might be a good option.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently enrolled with Columbia College (http:\/\/www.ccis.edu) to work on my Computer Information Systems bachelor&#8217;s degree, following a successful 2010 graduation with a Business Administration associate&#8217;s degree. Classes began on Monday (Ethics and Programming I), which should keep me busy for the next couple of months. Columbia College is nice in that they are regionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}