Past Coverage

• Mexico's President Delivers Online Commencement Address to Distance-Education Graduates - May 17, 2002
• New School and Open U. to Collaborate - February 7, 2003
• Universities Create On-Line Education 'Portal'The Distance-Education Consortium - June 25, 1999
• United States Open U. to Close After Spending $20-Million - February 15, 2002
• Banking on Its Reputation, the Open University Starts an Operation in the U.S. - July 23, 1999

Commentary

• 4 Faulty Assumptions About American Higher Education

  Problems in degree completion and attainment among Americans run deeper than the country's slipping international rank, Arthur M. Hauptman writes.

• What's an M.B.A. Worth in Terms of Happiness?

  If administrators think that's a silly question, Robert A Prentice writes, they probably haven't thought about it much.

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  How Two National Reports Ruined Business Schools

  For half a century, business schools have emulated liberal-arts institutions. The result, writes Carter A. Daniel, has been something close to a catastrophe.

Campus Viewpoint

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Under President Joseph Aoun, Northeastern University has embarked on a strategic plan that will guide it in its goals as a 21st century research university. Chief among those goals is to educate the next generation of creative thinkers and...