Jason’s Deli Partners with Sophia Learning to Provide Access to Online General Education Courses
January 30 2024 - 7:02AM
Business Wire
Sophia Learning, an online, on-demand, self-paced learning
platform providing college-level courses is partnering with Jason’s
Deli, an award-winning fast casual restaurant, to give its
full-time and part-time employees access to Sophia’s low-cost
$99/month subscription. The subscription will include access to
more than 60 high-quality general education college-level
courses.
The monthly subscription will be reimbursable in accordance with
the tuition reimbursement policy of Jason’s Deli. Additionally,
Jason’s Deli employees will be eligible to receive the tuition
reimbursement benefits for multiple reimbursement cycles, including
consecutively month over month.
"At Jason's Deli, we recognize that financial barriers can be an
obstacle for our employees who want to meet their education goals.
Jason’s Deli is proud to launch our education benefits program with
Sophia to help remove this burden for our employees,” said Alex
Cone, VP of Human Resources for Jason’s Deli. “Sophia's platform is
a great partner for us and will allow our diverse workforce to
continue to learn and excel, whenever or wherever they choose."
Sophia is an online learning platform that allows students at
any stage of their higher education journey to get started on their
education or finish up their college-level courses. The courses are
flexible, ACE®-recommended for college credit, and available
through an affordable monthly subscription that allows students to
move through courses at their own speed.
Sophia currently partners with over 60 colleges and universities
who have agreed to award credit for Sophia courses. Through the
partnership, Jason’s Deli employees will be eligible to receive
credit with Sophia partner institutions as well as apply for
consideration at non-partner institutions.
“As more frontline workers consider going back to school, having
access to affordable general education courses that are flexible
and transferable will be absolutely critical for them,” said Shawna
Thayer, Chief Executive Officer of Sophia. “We are excited to
partner with Jason’s Deli to provide their team members with a
pathway to help them advance their personal and professional
goals.”
Starting today, eligible Jason’s Deli employees are able to
apply for a Sophia subscription. For more information, visit
https://app.sophia.org/jasons-deli to learn more about the
partnership and its offerings.
About Jason’s Deli
A family-owned deli restaurant chain, Jason's Deli was founded
in Beaumont, Texas, in 1976 by Joe Tortorice Jr. and now has 250
locations in 28 states. In 2005, Jason's Deli was the first major
restaurant concept to ban artificial trans fats in the U.S. and
later became the first to eliminate high-fructose corn syrup. At
Jason's Deli, whether you want gluten-sensitive menu items or
vegetarian options, healthy kids' meals, or if you would like to
build your own salad at their famous salad bar, you will be
delighted by the bigger choices of better food, from healthy to
indulgent. For more information, please visit jasonsdeli.com.
About Sophia Learning
Sophia is an online learning platform that allows students at
any stage of their higher education journey to get started on or
continue their education by taking affordable and flexible
college-level general education courses that are ACE®-recommended
for college credit. Sophia students have saved more than $500
million in tuition dollars*, completed more than 500,000 courses,
and have been awarded more than 1,500,000 transfer credits at
receiving institutions. For more information about Sophia, visit
Sophia.org. Sophia is a subsidiary of Strategic Education, Inc.
* Savings based on average annual tuition at in-state, 4-year
institutions, as reported by IPEDS, 2020.
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