The Rant Podcast
The Rant Podcast
Eloy Ortiz Oakley
Serving Working Learners at UMGC
37 minutes Posted Oct 14, 2025 at 8:00 am.
Why Working Learners Matter Now
UMGC’s Origin Story After WWII
Military Reach And Global Operations
Mission: Serving Adult, Nontraditional Learners
Credit For Prior Learning By Rank
Time, Money, And ROI For Students
Skills, Competency, And Assessment Rethink
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Send us Fan Mail What does it look like when a “global campus” is truly global—and built for working learners from the ground up? We sit with UMGC president Dr. Greg Fowler to trace a line from faculty boarding planes after WWII to teaching through evacuations, tsunamis, and base alerts, all while keeping one promise: meet students where they are and prove value with real outcomes. Along the way, we dig into credit for prior learning mapped directly to military rank, why time is the enemy of ...