The for-profit, distance-learning-based University of Phoenix has heretofore specialized in offering working-adult students job-related education. But because the university is increasingly attracting younger students, it is considering offering an associate liberal-arts degree via its new online Axia College. We PBCers must follow this potentially far-reaching development and evaluate the quality of the courses Axia will offer (“Liberal-Arts Courses Grow at U. of Phoenix as More Younger Students Enroll,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14, 2006).
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