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September 11, 2006, 03:08 PM ET
U. of Illinois Plans an Online-Learning Venture
A number of colleges have struggled to jump-start their own online-learning enterprises, but trustees at the University of Illinois are convinced there’s a place for their institution on the Web. The trustees have spearheaded Illinois’s “Global Campus” project, which plans to offer degree and certificate programs over the Internet, according to the Daily Illini.
University officials, who are scrambling to get the service up and running by next January, say the time is right for research universities to get back into the online-education game: Students and employers, after all, are much more accepting of Internet courses than they were when Columbia University’s Fathom and New York University’s NYUonline bombed. —Brock Read
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