Pope Air Force Base extended campus offers academic excellence

     Pope Air Force base is one of several extended campus programs that offers courses through Campbell University. The base is comprised of approximately 4,500 service men and women and their families. Campbell prides itself on having the highest number of service men and women enrolled in an extended campus program out of all the schools represented on Pope Air Force Base. Often students from Campbell’s main campus take courses at Pope.
     Since it is smaller than the Buies Creek campus, the base campus has only four staff members—a program director, academic counselor, office manager, book store manager and a part-time administrative assistant. However, many adjunct instructors and main campus professors teach classes at the base. Among the courses taught at Pope are computer science, criminal justice, history, government and computer information systems. It is possible for students to receive a bachelor’s degree in those areas of concentration.
     With deployments and hurricane relief efforts eliminating a number of students, 650 are still enrolled at Pope for the second term. The number of students who graduate from the Pope Air Force Base campus each year averages between 60 and 75. At least one-third of the students graduate with honors.
     “We play an integral part in each student’s educational achievement,” said Elli Ambros the Academic Counselor at the base. “We also pride ourselves on our involvement in activities that support both students and Air Force members.”
     Recently Pope won the Air Mobility Command’s Installation Excellence Award. The base will now move on to the final round of competition against other Air Force command winners for achievement during 2005.