On the surface this might appear to be a serious threat to some campus institutions: what simpleton wouldn't want a degree from Harvard for free?
It owns plenty, but most of it is housed, as it has been for well over a century, in a separate on-campus institution, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, where it stays.
The university's acceptance of responsibility was part of a wide-ranging settlement that included criminal charges against the 10-campus institution being dropped.
This paper presents an instructional development analysis for a lesson of an intended Calculus course at a state-supported multi-campus institution of higher learning in the southeastern United States.
If the 80,000-student multi-campus institution loses accreditation, it could also lose state aid and could close.
As someone who served as one of the first vice presidents for diversity at a multi-campus institution of higher education, I am not surprised by the recent wave of student protests on campuses across the country and student leadership in the Black Lives Matter movement.
As UC says, they don't "align" with the 10-campus institution's values.
For now, it's the former, but as Coursera and others plow more time, resources and capital into their Signature Track-style programs, the more they will compete with campuses, institutions themselves — and the diploma.
Additionally, if U.S. News and World Report equates low numbers of reported assaults with safer campuses, institutions have even more of a perverse incentive to discourage reporting and intentionally misrepresent their campuses.
We re-learned that colleges will turn a blind eye to sexual assault and the sexist on-campus institutions that facilitate it (and we immediately and enthusiastically attempted to un-learn that as soon as Rolling Stone threw the alleged UVA victim under the bus).
Outside the main campus, the institution formally includes two additional branch campuses: Texas A&M at Qatar located in Education City in Doha, Qatar devoted to engineering disciplines and Texas A&M University at Galveston in Galveston, Texas, devoted to marine research and host to the Texas Maritime Academy.
