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As universities ready to welcome new students, some wonder about the financial health of higher education

The college-cost calamity http://www.economist.com/node/21559936 After Leadership Crisis Fueled by Distance-Ed Debate, UVA will put Free Classes Online http://chronicle.com/article/After-Leadership-Crisis-Fueled/132917/ Why the Education Bubble Will Be Worse Than the Housing...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2012/0810
College, Inc.

While some people might think "college" and conjure up images of a leafy quadrangle, there are many schools that might be best thought of as a series of elaborate network servers and a few physical offices in a more modest office suite in a suburban building. The sector of higher education that includes for-profit colleges and universities that cater to non-traditional students is one that has...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/
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The Rise of Phoenix

The debate about for-profit universities continues to gain steam in the United States and around the world. The folks at American RadioWorks have crafted this intriguing portrait of one of the most well-known for-profit universities, the University of Phoenix. Correspondent Emily Hanford looks at the history of this and other institutions as she profiles its founder, John Sperling, and also...

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows...