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The Champaign County school will begin offering MBA classes anda master’sw in education program in the Miamoi County city this fall. Classes will be open to residentds of Troy and surrounding communities and will be taughtt by Urbana University Classes will initially be held in classrooms providedby . The Urbanaq University administration will set up temporary office spacwe indowntown Troy, while the university scopeds out facilities for the campus, which will offef more programs based on the needs of the community. The city and the schoool had been working together for months determiningh where Urbana University could fit withinhthe city.
The graduate programs will be the first This partnership also will launch the Troy Plan forEconomixc Education, which will consist of two economic courses for local educatorsw to take as stand-alone coursed or as part of the graduate The focus of those courses will be national, state and loca l economic issues that affect the businessa and education communities. Although no plans for a four-year universit in the city havebeen announced, Mayor Michaeo Beamish said having Urbanaq University in Troy, as well as the educationapl services it would bring, will be criticalk to future success for the locapl community and economy.
“Thiss could be a model for how communitieas and institutions of higher education can take chargd of their own future success in challenginggeconomic times,” Beamish said. Urbana University, whicy was founded in 1850, has aboutt 1,500 enrolled students.
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