"We did just about every analysis we could think of to keep the college alive and give a viable education," she said, "but the numbers couldn't generate enough income".
Touted by President Obama as "the unsung heroes of American education," community colleges offer a viable education solution to the problem of escalating college costs, and are a key ingredient in strengthening access to education.
Online education options have proliferated, with significant growth occurring at state-sponsored virtual schools allowing students and parents to choose virtual schooling as a viable educational option.
If the goal is to create viable online education programs, then schools want to be able to give credit and apply the same admissions process (and criteria) they use in their on-campus programs, along with increasing their enrollment and margins.
Given the importance of a viable higher education system to our nation's economy and future, how can we avert this potential disaster?
"I can't think of an individual who has single-handedly created more viable higher education opportunities for more individuals than John Sperling," said Guilbert Hentschke, chairman emeritus of USC's Rossier School of Education.
For example, if it is found that women of a certain ethnicity are less likely to choose BCS when it is a viable option, education campaigns could be specifically implemented to target these women.
Some of the oft-repeated challenges to mobile learning as a viable vehicle for education include the costs associated with ownership and maintenance of the devices, fears of inappropriate use, and the alleged difficulty of reading on the devices with small screens.
But ACE approval marked another step towards being able to offer a viable, accredited online education — and degree.
That's because viable, interactive online education requires software that can meet a new generation of demands: Social, mobile, rich multimedia, flexibility, and scale.
Bolsonaro has no stated plans to address income inequality, rising levels of poverty or access to viable health and education services — even though public policy experts widely agree that Brazil's sky-high rates of inequality contribute to its astronomical crime rates.
