Robert Mendenhall is the president of Western Governors University (WGU) where he also serves on the board of trustees. Founded in the mid-1990s by nineteen governors, WGU is a private, non-profit, online university offering competency-based degrees. Under Mendenhall's leadership WGU hit a milestone in June 2008 with enrollment passing 10,000 students.

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  • Robert Mendenhall is the president of Western Governors University (WGU) where he also serves on the board of trustees. Founded in the mid-1990s by nineteen governors, WGU is a private, non-profit, online university offering competency-based degrees. Under Mendenhall's leadership WGU hit a milestone in June 2008 with enrollment passing 10,000 students. WGU's largest enrollment area is in its education programs, though Mendenhall has also worked to expand into other fields including business, information technology, and nursing. The university's Teachers College is unique in that it offers a path to teacher certification for k-12 teachers in all fifty states. Mendenhall called "the logistics [of this] daunting. " Discussing the university, Mendenhall said, "WGU was specifically created as a new model for higher education, incorporating the use of technology to expand access and reduce costs, while creating competency-based degree programs to improve accountability for learning. " He has served as president of WGU since 1998.
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  • Robert Mendenhall is the president of Western Governors University (WGU) where he also serves on the board of trustees. Founded in the mid-1990s by nineteen governors, WGU is a private, non-profit, online university offering competency-based degrees. Under Mendenhall's leadership WGU hit a milestone in June 2008 with enrollment passing 10,000 students.
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