Exercise 2. Complete the text with missing words

Peter E. Weissgarber, 38, a general foreman at the Electric Boat Div. of General Dynamics Corp. in Groton,

Conn., is the first of five sons in his family to _______ a college degree. On July 11, Weissgarber was among

44 Electric Boat employees to _________ an associate's degree in business administration from the

University of New Haven's "Cornerstone" program, in which ____________ degrees may be earned entirely

on the employer's ____________.

Such undergraduate degree programs have begun to ___________ at large companies across the U.S.

____________ degree programs in management, finance, engineering and other specialties have long been

offered in-_________ by a small group of companies, but most of the undergraduate degree programs are

new.

The trend serves the __________ interests of colleges _________ with declining campus _________,

companies seeking to __________ the education of their workers, and employees who lack either money or

time to _________ higher education on their own.

Although future-oriented, some of the on-site programs grew out of a very old kind of education:

___________ training.

Employees who had gone through the program and sought to ___________ work toward a degree on the

__________ found that colleges required a frustrating ___________ of duplication. So the company

contracted with Manchester to provide 30 additional liberal arts ___________ on-site. Now it is expanding

the program.

Such courses __________ a particularly vital role at high-technology companies such as DEC,

At Electric Boat the program ____________ specific needs because the University of New Haven has

_________ it to a shipbuilding environment. Cornerstone's management and marketing courses deal with

large corporate scenarios rather than the entrepreneurial approach.

Both DEC and Electric Boat ____________ vigorous selling ___________ to persuade colleges to export

professors and support personnel to job sites. But many other in-house programs are the result of

aggressive ______________ by colleges.

Not all colleges approve of job-___________ degree programs. They think that such programs may

have too few ___________ functions, such as libraries and laboratories, on the premises and fear that offcampus

programs might ____________ the university's educational ________________.

Universities that do cooperate in on-site programs deny that any such ___________ takes place. "Complete

________ control remains with the individual academic departments on campus," says Richard C. Morrison,

dean of the School of Professional Studies & Continuing Education at the University of New Haven. Morrison

and other educators insist that students must ___________ university ____________. In fact, many of the

1,200 employees at GMC Truck & Coach Div. who were interested in its on-site undergraduate program

___________ to meet the University of Detroit's _____________ standards.

Convenience draws many employees to on-site college programs, but _____________ with their fellow

students also attracts them. These courses are aimed mainly at people who might have _______________

over college courses, people who don't know if they can ____________ college, or people over 35.

Most companies require employees to pay for the on-site programs and then _____________ 75% to 100%

of the ____________ upon successful completion of the courses. Until recently, Ford Motor Co. gave

employees vouchers for courses, and CMU subsequently ____________ the company. On July 1 this was

discontinued. As a result, Ford ____________ in the program dropped from 375 in February to 275 at latest

count. In Electric Boat's program, however, the employee pays no money ___ ________, and that is a strong

____________ to enroll.

The companies, too, have an important ________ in such programs. At EB the education program has

increased employee loyalty, reduced __________, improved __________ and the quality of supervision, and

___________ the company's recruiting efforts.