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Opposition Arises Amid Nearing University of Arkansas System Acquisition of University of Phoenix

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Arkansas (UA) system may be nearing an affiliation deal with embattled for-profit University of Phoenix, and UA faculty and staff continue to object to the move, worried about the damage it could do to the reputation of the state’s schools, The Washington Post reported.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Interest rates have stayed pinned at historic lows for the last fifteen years, ever since the Fed injected liquidity into the market to save the banking sector. Despite all of the complaints about how bad textbooks are and how clueless these companies are, the relationship between textbook publishers and faculty is unusually intimate.