'Stay-Ducation': Verizon Wireless On-Site College Program Helps Employee-Students Skip the Drive...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless customer service representatives who want to further their education don't have to fill up gas tanks to get to class across town. They just walk down the hall or across their corporate campus at the end of their work day to attend college classes at one of nine on-site universities. Customer service representatives and all other Verizon Wireless employees who work near call center locations are eligible to participate in the company's tuition-assisted, on-site college degree programs where they can earn associate, bachelor or master's degrees. All classes are taught by professors or faculty hired by a local participating, accredited university. Since Verizon Wireless first introduced its tuition assistance program in January 2001 and on-site education programs in... [read full story]