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Spring Arbor U starts BA programs in Ionia, Howell

Associated Press - November 13, 2009 4:14 AM ET

IONIA, Mich. (AP) - Spring Arbor University says it will start offering degree programs in Ionia and Howell.

The Spring Arbor-based university says the new course offerings will begin March 17, 2010.

The first degree program offered at Montcalm Community College in Ionia will be a bachelor of arts in management and organizational development.

The university says it will start offering degree programs in Howell on March 22. It says the first such program will be a BA in family life education. A site has yet to be chosen.

Leaders of the Free Methodist Church founded what now is Spring Arbor University in 1873. The school has about 4,000 students.

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