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3 Reasons We Joined the edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Last week, the three of us participated in the first in-person meeting of edX/2U’s recently constituted University Partner Advisory Council (UPAC). Separately and together, we sit on a number of advisory groups/councils of for-profit companies working with nonprofit universities in the online learning space.

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Reflections on 2018 and Predictions for 2019: with Drumm McNaughton | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 012

The Change Leader, Inc.

Some of those mergers were huge ( Purdue acquiring Kaplan , Strayer acquiring Capella, National University System acquiring Northcentral ). In addition, 14 nonprofit universities closed and five merged while 36 public institutions merged or consolidated.