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Sunday, July 30, 2006
Federal funds flow to online university based in Utah - Thomas Burr, The Salt Lake Tribune
In 1997, then- Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah proclaimed Western Governors University the future of education and said that within three years the school would have 14,000 students and be self-sufficient. Well, not exactly. Earlier this month, eight years after the school opened and thanks to an infusion of $21 million from the federal government, the university handed out its 1,047th degree. Officials of the online, competency-based university without brick-and-mortar classrooms call it a success story.
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