December 15, 2000

Critics Decry Canadian Government's Aid to a For-Profit Online Institution

By JANICE PASKEY

In its first year of operation, Lansbridge University is fending off critics who say that, as a for-profit institution, it doesn't deserve grants from the Canadian government.

Lansbridge, which bills itself as the "world's first private Internet-based university," came out swinging against its chief critic, the 30,000-member Canadian Association of University Teachers -- known as CAUT -- after being denounced in an Ottawa Citizen newspaper article.

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