Small US Colleges Use Course Sharing to Add New Programs
In The News Piece in Voice of America
Oct. 29, 2022
A study made by Rachel Fishman and Sophie Nguyen in partnership with Third Way's experts was cited in an article by Voice of America about course-sharing as a new strategy for small colleges.
An increasing number of mostly small, liberal arts colleges in the United States are drawing students like Smith by sharing courses online with large universities.
The move is a way for small colleges to deal with decreasing numbers of students going to college. In the past ten years, 81 small, private colleges have closed in the U.S. And nearly two-thirds of high school seniors now say a college degree is not worth the cost. The information comes from a New America and Third Way study.
Rick Ostrander is an assistant to the president at Westmont College in southern California. He said, “Course sharing lets us maintain what we are, which is small and residential, but compete on selection and price.”
“Hundreds of schools are going to go out of business if we don’t figure this out,” said Jeffrey Docking, the president of Adrian College. The school has used course sharing to add 17 fields of study in just the last two years, including computer science, web design, cybersecurity and public health.
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