Suffolk University came into being more than a century ago as an unconventional law school for nontraditional students. So it will be fitting — and helpful to other institutions — if the school can position itself now as a leader in adapting to deep changes in American higher education, especially the dramatic expansion of online learning.
Like many universities, here and elsewhere in the country, Suffolk started with a narrow mission — to be an evening law school for students with day jobs — and expanded its offerings over time to replicate more of the undergraduate and graduate programs at more established institutions. Now, that era of rapid institutional growth at universities seems to be ending, especially for schools that, like Suffolk, rely heavily on tuition rather than research grant revenues or vast endowments for their funding. In response, Suffolk’s newly inaugurated president, James McCarthy, is moving away from an all-things-to-everyone approach. Instead, the university’s new strategic plan focuses on academic areas where the school has been strongest and those that lead most directly to careers. It also vows to use more online instruction, in part to keep tuition costs down.
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On line classes are ridiculous. The cheating is unreal. Go to class, participate, learn.
What idiot wrote this piece.. Mc Grory this is pathetic.
I've taken online courses, and I've taken "real" courses. Online courses open doors to myriad new ways of cheating and not really doing the work. This piece should be advocating that online components of courses are fine, but that no substitute yet exists for the real classroom.
But. What of we that use On-Line Courses appropriately? Not all of us are financially able or have the time to "go to class, participate, learn..", some of us need further education to keep the job we have. Traditional full-time undergraduate tiution has become prohibitive. even in "Public" Universities. If we get rid of on-line education, we leave college for thosethat are able to keep contributing to the bloated salaries of Deans, Presidents and Administrators, and rediculous "extra-curricular" fees. The Uber-Class.