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WELCOME TO THE SLOAN SEMESTER COURSE CENTER

Free Online College Courses for Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina or Rita

If you are a student from a college or university in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas or a member of the National Guard on assignment in the Gulf Coast region whose studies were disrupted by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, Sloan Semester is designed for you. It can help you continue your education without your having to transfer or relocate to another institution. Search our catalog of hundreds of free online courses available in an accelerated timetable. Complete our online application (VESA) to speed your enrollment. For more general information about this initiative, please visit www.sloansemester.org.

Getting Started

Your first step is to establish an account. It's quick, easy and free. To create your account, please start here. Then you can search the course catalog and find courses you might want to take, you can save them for future reference and complete the online application. Once completed, you won't need to input the information again. It is saved and is secured as part of your profile. Indeed, it will follow you throughout the site and will auto-populate your VESA when you reach that point.

Explore

Ready to search our catalog? It's quick and easy and you control the search. You can:

Course Search - search for e-learning courses offered in Sloan Semester (by discipline, level, keywords in title and description, or by institution). You'll get immediate results from the search and can review more specific course details by clicking on the course title of interest. Then you can save the courses you are most interested in (click on 'save in my EC') for future reference/use.
Participating Institutions - View the list of colleges and universities that are offering e-learning courses in Sloan Semester.

Begin exploring now…

Apply

Ready to apply? Well, it's not applying in the usual sense, but a way for you to get clearance to register for those courses you want to take. Sloan Semester is using the SREB Visiting Student Program, or VESA (Visiting Electronic Student Authorization) to streamline the admissions/registration process for you. VESA provides a convenient way for eligible students to be certified for enrollment in courses at providing institutions. There is no charge to submit the online VESA application which can be completed in a matter of minutes. The VESA form is auto-populated from the account and student profile information you provided earlier. If you haven't created your account yet, you should do so now.

Learn more about VESA and begin your application here.

Help

We have attempted to make the administrative procedures for you to find the courses you need and want to take and the process of getting enrolled as easy as possible. Hopefully you are, or will soon be, on your way to a great learning experience. And when that begins, you will be governed by the rules and regulations of the providing institution.

Should you have questions or need help with any aspect of Sloan Semester, resources and services are available to you. You may want to review our Frequently Asked Questions which will provide much more information to you. But if you have more specific questions, click on the links below for assistance.