George Leef, director of research at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, explains that StraighterLine and other online higher education options are providing competition to traditional bricks-and-mortar colleges and universities. Leef offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 336).
Opinion
Job needs propel college reforms
I’ve long been bullish on North Carolina’s community colleges. In the past, I’ve praised the system’s cost-effectiveness, its capacity to serve nontraditional students, and the impressive labor-market returns for associate degrees and certificates in such fields as industrial technology, home repair, computer sciences, and health care. Today, I’ll offer you three pieces of good news...