Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, January 14, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i19/19a03301.htm

Colleges, Fighting U.S. Trade Proposal, Say It Favors For-Profit Distance Education
By ANDREA FOSTER

The outcome could affect many institutions' plans to go after lucrative foreign markets... A little-known proposal by U.S. officials to remove international trade barriers to higher education has infuriated many college leaders, who say federal policy is being unfairly set by for-profit-education providers, including distance-education institutions. The college officials say the proposal could end up undermining many institutions' independence....

 



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