The Maryland Higher Education Commission has ruled that state residents should not be able to enroll in an online degree program in community-college administration offered by the University of Maryland University College, reports The Sun, a newspaper in Baltimore. Morgan State University, a historically black college, opposed the program on the grounds that it could violate civil-rights laws. In response, Donald N. Langenberg, chancellor emeritus of the University System of Maryland, has called the commission’s decision “insane,” comparing it to restrictions that the Soviet Union once placed on citizens’ access to information.
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4 Responses to Decision on U. of Maryland Online Degree Is ‘Insane,’ Says Former Chancellor
haohtt - October 22, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Shame on the the MHEC. Do they honestly think that anything is going to keep Maryland students from enrolling in online community college administration offered by Walden, Alliant or others?
jffoster - October 23, 2009 at 6:37 am
Maryland is a wonderful State, with beautiful scenery, pleasant people, and succulent crabs, an exquisite state capital city, and…. But it is plagued with a highly intrusive state government. The tyrant’s heel is on Thy shore, Maryland, my Maryland. And this time the tyrant isn’t Abraham Lincoln. It lives in Annapolis.
bertw - October 23, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Insane is the perfect description. To begin with, online education is inherently inclusive–the civil rights argument is utterly bogus. On top of that, programs are duplicated all across any state higher education system. And with good reason. Whether the MHEC decision was just plain politics or rooted in actual psychiatric disorder (doubtful, very doubtful) is was surely fatuous and leaves the door open for every other online school on the planet to offer this program to Maryland students.
jaysanderson - October 26, 2009 at 11:54 am
Violate civil rights laws? How much thought went into THAT opinion?