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New, Central Location Awaits Dalton's Working Adults At Covenant College Quest

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Increased demand in northwest Georgia for bachelor's degrees has prompted Covenant College Quest to relocate its Dalton campus to a larger classroom facility in the heart of downtown.

The region's first adult degree program now boasts an attractive and expanded new home at 610 S. Glenwood Ave., Suite 112, two miles from exit 333 off Interstate 75. "Our new classrooms are now more centrally located and thus more convenient to those with jobs close to downtown Dalton," said Dr. Ginner W. Hudson, dean of organizational management and executive education, of the recent move.

Covenant College Quest is alma mater to hundreds of working adults in northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee who have graduated with a baccalaureate degree—often years after they first started college elsewhere.

"For the price of a small car, a working adult can boost his or her lifetime earning power by about $1 million. That's how much more a typical college graduate makes than someone who never finished college," Dr. Hudson said. "We help students finish what they started."

With classes offered one night a week and taught by distinguished Christian faculty, Covenant College Quest allows working adults to finish their bachelor's degrees in as little as 18 months. Anyone at least 23 years old who has approximately five years' work experience and prior college experience is invited to sit in on a class and see for himself how Quest works.

To visit the new Dalton location, call 800 960-5020 or email Ed.Pickel@covenant.edu.


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