Anyone interested in the evolution of higher education in this country should read “Served, Yes, But Well Served?” by Doug Lederman in today’s (October 8, 2009) Inside Higher Education. Lots of good analysis and comments about the role of community colleges, traditional public and private four-year colleges, and for-profit providers of higher education. continue reading

Five years ago I joined Concord, Kaplan’s online law school, as Dean and Professor after thirty years in the traditional law school world. Colleagues said that I was part of the “wave of the future.” Like surfing (and life in general), in the rethinking of higher education, timing matters. continue reading

Our experience at Concord Law School of Kaplan University supports yesterday’s commentary in Inside Higher Education by Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan that “The Medium is Not the Message”  and his conclusion that it is past time for all of us in higher education to “stop categorizing … by the medium of delivery and start focusing on its [higher education’s] impacts and outcomes.” continue reading