Bay Path University

e University reached out to its One Day students, along with faculty, sta and alumni, for input on creating a collaborative and engaging instruction model, and in 2013, launched the country's rst all-women, all online bachelor's degree program, The American Women's College (TAWC). Building on the One Day program, TAWC's hallmark feature is its Social Online Universal Learning (SOUL) adaptive learning approach. rough SOUL, students receive personalized on-boarding and the ongoing support of an educatPS coach, along with virtual learning communities for students to engage and network with their classmates. Six years later, TAWC steadily gains attention and accolades, along with resources to strengthen its mission. As the ambition, determination, and drive of our students continues to inspire us, we're reecting on Bay Path's vision of expanding access to education, employment and self-determinism to adult women. By saluting the students, professors and leaders who've shaped the university's reputation as a groundbreaking, game-changing institution, we look to channel that vision— and the passion and innovation that drives it—into the future. Twenty years later, we're celebrating the women who've helped turn this vision into degrees, careers and stories of impact and inspiration. e revolution started quietly one Saturday morning in 1999. A small group of women, ranging in age from 25 to 60, arrived promptly at 7:30 AM, opened their clean, blank notebooks and thereby changed all preconceived notions of who college is for—and how it should be experienced— as the rst students in the One Day A Week Saturday program. Radical by design, the One Day program acknowledged and respected the circumstances that shape women's lives— motherhood, day jobs and endless to-do lists—by holding classes on Saturday. Coming together every Saturday for 10 hours of classes, students inevitably created a network of support, a sense of community and a culture of persistence, born out of the shared experience of returning to school as adult women. Beyond its manageable format, the program delivered on a core principle that underscores the women's college experience: sisterhood is powerful. e success of the One Day program validated the notion that adult women were hungry for advancement, knowledge and degrees, and that they would commit themselves to a college program if it accommodated their busy schedules. When advancements in technology gave way to virtual classrooms, digital learning materials and online collaboration, Bay Path seized both the oppor- tunity—and the challenge—to apply that notion to an online program. More Amazing Women to College More Amazing Women www.baypath.edu 17

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