Located in the heart of Boston, Simmons University is a private university, home to a respected women’s undergraduate program as well as coeducational graduate programs in nursing and health sciences, liberal arts, business, communications, social work, public health, and library and information science. Simmons has been a trailblazer and an innovator over the last decade, devoting considerable institutional capital to redesigning its institutional structure to meet the demands of 21^st-century education and research, including high-quality online academic offerings at the undergraduate and graduate levels.