Despite technological and pedagogical improvements, obstacles continue in certain areas of distance education, including a lack of interaction among students and instructors and associated feelings of disconnectedness from the campus community. This article explores the study results of a blended learning, distance education graduate program designed to minimize some of these traditional challenges. Here, among a number of findings, results suggest that a blended learning model can improve perceptions of faculty attention and minimize rifts between on-campus and distance students in the same program. (Contains 12 tables.)