Price Wars on Campus
Albert B. Crenshaw,
Washington Post,
Oct 15, 2002
One thing I hear a lot is that life will go on as usual in the university sector. When I visit the large campuses and ponder the enormous investment undertaken by the sector, it's hard to disagree. But change is coming. Consider this article. True, it doesn't even mention online learning or alternative education. Yet it seems hard to square the problems universities are having attracting students with the fact that the bulk of the echo boom is now attanding college. Yet, since 1997 some 30 colleges have closed their doors and the others are engaged in what is described by this article as a "brutal" struggle for enrollments. A crisis, almost by definition, appears suddenly. But most crises are years in the making, their sudden appearance the result more of willful ignorance than lack of knowledge. Be ready.
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