-The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2009 by Marc Beja
http://chronicle.com/article/Online-Campus-Could-Solve-Many/47432/
My primary passions are in the racial-justice arena, and it’s perfectly predictable that underrepresented minorities will increasingly be left behind unless we find new strategies … Many transfer-ready students in the community-college system were opting to go to the University of Phoenix rather than go to UC. Even more surprising, this phenomenon was disproportionately true for blacks and Latinos. My hypothesis is that it is because of the convenience—the ability to do part-time, anytime course work, the ability to work part time, stay at home, et cetera.
– KPCC, Southern California Public Radio, July 23, 2009 by Patt Morrison
http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/07/23/online-education-extends-public-high-school-and-po/
“We want to pull together classes that have enough coherence so that you’d be able to take majors and graduate fully with online courses, rather than a course here and a course there to augment what is basically an on-campus experience. It’s got to be more complete and more strategically assembled.”