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Monday, April 01, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i30/30a02701.htm Historically Black Colleges Grapple With Online Education MICHAEL ARNONE One of Lionel S. Duncan's responsibilities at Morgan State University is creating more online-education courses. He's got his work cut out for him. "Distance education is a very hard sell at black institutions, at some more than others," says Mr. Duncan, director of distance education at Morgan, a historically black university here. "There was a time when we just couldn't think about technology in the classroom," he says. "We had to think about reading and writing." But times are changing. Providing distance education, especially online, is imperative if black institutions are to remain competitive as more institutions of all types put degrees and courses online, says Earl S. Richardson, president of Morgan State. From 1998 to last March, he chaired the President's Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a federal panel....
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