Posts published on April 5, 2013
Why Community Colleges Grew From 1969-2002
The Growth of Community Colleges in the American States: An Application of Count Models to Institutional Growth
The authors use a panel data set covering all 50 states from the years 1969-2002 to investigate the growth of community colleges. They find that community college expansion was driven in large part by changes in state populations, while growth was slowed by competition from other institutions.
Stanford to Join Harvard, MIT in Online Education
Stanford University announced that it is joining forces with Harvard and MIT on developing a computer system that allows colleges to offer free massive open online courses, or MOOCS. Stanford still plans to offer some of its courses through Coursera, a commercial Internet course provider founded by two Stanford professors. (Boston Globe, 04/03/13)
