Top lawmaker pushes for online only university

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  1. carlosb

    carlosb New Member

    A high-ranking Florida Republican lawmaker Thursday floated the idea of an all-online university to the state Board of Governors.

    No classrooms, no dorms, no football stadium, no parking lots. Could an online-only university work in Florida?

    Rep. Will Weatherford, the Florida’s House speaker-designate, thinks so.

    Thursday, he asked state university system leaders to look into the possibility.

    “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the fastest-growing part of our education system,” Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, told the Florida Board of Governors at a meeting in Tallahassee. He pointed to a growing number of students who take online classes as evidence that the prospect already has support.

    Fifty percent of the state’s 300,000-plus students took a course online last year, Weatherford said. And that was just the most recent count he could find. Certainly, he said, those numbers have gone up.

    “They want this flexibility,” he said. “I think there’s a way for the state of Florida to give this to them.

    Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/19/2598455/top-lawmaker-pushes-for-online.html#storylink=cpy
     
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  2. Jacob Perry

    Jacob Perry New Member

    This is something that could be accomplished just as easily simply by expanding the online offerings from the state university system, which is lacking to say the least. There is little reason to add to the state's bloated educational bureaucracy merely to do something which could be accomplished in other ways.
     

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