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Tuesday, February 05, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002020501u.htm United States Open University Announces It Will Close in June By MICHAEL ARNONE Blaming insufficient revenues and inadequate enrollments, the United States Open University announced Monday that it would shut down in June. "We couldn't get on a path to solvency quickly enough," said Richard S. Jarvis, chancellor of the distance-education institution, which opened two years ago as a branch of the Open University in Great Britain. The British institution, which is well-regarded internationally as a high-quality provider of distance education, will have spent around $20-million by year's end on the online project, Mr. Jarvis said, and enrollment was not growing fast enough to keep debt from accruing too quickly....
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