June 9, 2000

Faculty Members Are Wary of Distance-Education Ventures

By SARAH CARR

Talk of 'brand name' offends Cornell professors and illustrates tensions over for-profit units

When administrators at Cornell University decided this winter to create a for-profit subsidiary to develop and market online courses, they chose the temporary name e-Cornell -- an allusion, they said, to one of the university's founders,

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