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| Funding Students, Threatening Liberal Education | Last year, as Washington State faced a severe budget crisis, legislators embraced a novel way to fund student financial aid: a public-private partnership between the state and private corporations. Called the Opportunity Scholarship Fund, the fund attracts private donations and matches them with鈥 |
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| Two Governors Take their State Schools in Two Different Directions | Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has only been in office for about a year. He succeeded Bill Ritter as Colorado鈥檚 chief executive. Even though he has only been in office a short time, Hickenlooper has found the time to issue an executive order concerning Colorado Higher Education. On January鈥 |
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| Retreat on funding carries real costs | As Washington looks toward the next special legislative session, higher education is again on the cutting block. It is likely that new cuts will be forthcoming absent new taxes. As a result, the cost to students to attend college will continue to rise. |
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| Online Higher Education's Individualist Fallacy | There has been much talk of the 鈥渙nline revolution鈥 in higher education. While there is a place for online education, some of its boosters anticipate displacing the traditional campus altogether. A close reading of their arguments, however, makes clear that many share what might be called the 鈥溾 |
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| Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree | Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster and flexible enough to take work experience into account. As Wikipedia upended the encyclopedia industry and iTunes changed the music business鈥 |
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| Western Governors University Lassoes Texas | Western Governors University continued to live up to its name on Wednesday, as Texas Governor Rick Perry announced a partnership with the fast-growing online institution 鈥 and was promptly showered with praise from nearly everyone. |
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| Why We Should Teach National History in a Global Age | Americans face a unique challenge today in defining their identities. Globalizing markets have connected us with faraway peoples and places, allowing us to buy cheap goods manufactured in nations with limited labor and environmental protections. Globalization has also spurred heavy migration and鈥 |
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| Model of the Moment | The terms 鈥渙utsourcing鈥 and 鈥渨orkforce development鈥 rarely appear as allies in the same sentence. At least not in Rust Belt states like Indiana, where the loss of manufacturing jobs has driven an increase in demand for postsecondary degrees that point to jobs that will not soon be exported鈥 |
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| Online university doesn't offer 'real college education' | THE Legislature is considering a proposal to turn Western Governors University, a private online institution, into a state university. While the bill's supporters claim that WGU provides greater access to working citizens, there are serious drawbacks that deserve consideration. 鈥 |