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Is Your Distance Education Course Actually a Correspondence Course?

Published by: WCET | 4/20/2012

St. Mary-of-the-Woods College should refund $42 million in federal financial aid dollars that it disbursed to students over a five year period.  That is the finding of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General, which found that […]

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State Approval: Train Wrecks, Impacts, & Questions

Published by: WCET | 3/24/2011

First a short musing on “train wrecks” followed by a couple requests of you.  We need your help on the impact of the ‘state authorization’ regulation on students and your outstanding questions about it. Speaking of Train Wrecks “Train Wreck.”   […]

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