>> from Edupage, 09 July 98 >> >> COMMUNITY COLLEGES TOUT NEW DISTANCE-LEARNING NETWORK >> >> The Community College Distance Learning Network is going national, >> complete with a media blitz paid for with $30,000 contributions from each >> participating college. The first ads will appear next month in Chicago >> and Los Angeles, targeted because of their large immigrant populations in >> the hope that they can attract international students to the more than 500 >> courses scheduled for this fall. Courses will be offered via Internet, >> via video-based "telecourses," or a combination of the two. Noting that >> this latest announcement merely underscores the heated competition for >> distance learning dollars among the higher education community, Jim >> Mingle, head of the State Higher Education Executive Officers, says, "It's >> Katie bar the door -- everybody's in everybody's business." (Chronicle of >> Higher Education 10 Jul 98) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> If you wish to escape Interversity, send email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the first line of >> the note put: unsubscribe interversity >> Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you run into trouble >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> > >---------------------------------------------------- >If you wish to escape Interversity, send email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the first line of >the note put: unsubscribe interversity >Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you run into trouble >---------------------------------------------------- > > > actually, i hadn't seen it, so thanks for sending it along....j Dr. Jacquelyn Thayer Scott President & Vice-Chancellor University College of Cape Breton P.O. Box 5300 Cape Breton RM, NS B1P 6L2 CANADA Phone: (902) 563-1333 Fax: (902) 562-0273