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A Missed Opportunity to Stimulate Change in Higher Education

In its first days, the Obama administration made two bold moves affecting higher education. One was declaring that the nation would regain world leadership in college attainment by 2020. The other was pushing through the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus), which to date, has pumped an estimated $6.5 billion into the nation’s public colleges and universities. As administration officials look back on their first year, they need to consider the possibility that the stimulus may end up doing little to advance the president’s goal and may even frustrate progress toward it.

Montana: Last year, the state legislature allocated a portion of the state’s stimulus funds to create a virtual community college designed to re-package existing courses and programs focusing on dual high school-college enrollment and workforce training and deliver them online to every corner of the state.

By Travis Reindl

Full Story: http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/blogposts/2010/guest_post_a_missed_opportunity_to_stimulate_change_in_higher_education-27301

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