Fathom Adds Training to Distance-Education Offerings

By MICHAEL ARNONE

Fathom, the for-profit, online-learning provider run by Columbia University, has added corporate-training courses to its academic and cultural offerings in a bid to market itself to corporate employees and job hunters. The move is the latest change in direction the company has made in its search for customers and investors in the competitive distance-education market.

Columbia has announced that four for-profit education companies -- SmartForce, Zoologic, the Kaplan Colleges, and

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Columbia Senate Questions Spending on Fathom - May 10, 2002
Cornell's Distance-Education Arm Readies New Program, and Hopes for Profits - November 2, 2001
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