After Losing Millions, Columbia U. Will Close Online-Learning Venture

By SCOTT CARLSON

Columbia University announced last week that it would shut down Fathom, its for-profit online-learning venture, which was designed to sell Web-based courses and seminars to the public.

In its two years of operation, the venture offered material from a dozen prominent institutions and attracted widespread media attention, but it was...

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