March 24, 2006

Kaplan U. Professors Seek Faculty Union

By DAN CARNEVALE

If they succeed it would apparently be the first such organization at an online institution

Some 60 faculty members at Kaplan University are attempting to create a union to counter what its proponents describe as intimidation from administrators and pressure to inflate students' grades. If the effort succeeds, the union would apparently be the first at an online institution.

Kaplan University, which enrolls over 50,000 students nationwide, is a highly successful, for-profit

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