“According to a new survey from the League for Innovation in the Community College, enrolments are, in fact, increasing at community colleges across the country, especially in online programs. A quick and careless read could lead one to conclude that profits from growing online programs were being used to supplant losses in state aid. There may be some college, somewhere, that’s actually doing that. But I haven’t seen it. Online courses are not cash cows for us. Most of the cost of instruction is labor, and we don’t pay any differently for online instruction than we do for traditional instruction. (We also charge the same tuition and fees.) We have full-time faculty who teach online courses as part of their regular load, and we have adjuncts who teach them for their normal pay …” (more)
[Inside Higher Ed, 19 March]