By SETH SLABAUGH, the Star Press
Ball State University President Jo Ann Gora has been talking for at least a year about how the Internet is changing higher education. Now the university is doing something about it: Creating a task force tentatively called “Ball State Education of the Future.” In her annual State of the University speech a year ago, Gora said BSU was facing increased competition from community colleges and for-profit colleges offering online education like the University of Phoenix. “It is no longer good enough for us to say that our model is tried and true,” she said then. “Employees of Lehman Brothers and General Motors and Gateway computers used to make that point too.” During this year’s annual speech, Gora noted that the state commission on higher education had called for more online course offerings and for more programs that can grant associate degrees in one year and bachelor’s degrees in three years.
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