University of Illinois trustees on Thursday will consider a plan to radically revamp the school's online venture, Global Campus, after it failed to draw the thousands of students expected.
Trustees meeting in Chicago are expected to vote to follow a faculty plan to largely scrap the current version of Global Campus. The virtual school would be brought back under the close control of the university's three brick-and-mortar campuses.
Global Campus now exists largely independent of those campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield.
The university opened the campus in January 2008 as a way to reach more students and generate revenue though thousands of enrollments.
But so far the online venture has just over 400 students.
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Trustees meeting in Chicago are expected to vote to follow a faculty plan to largely scrap the current version of Global Campus. The virtual school would be brought back under the close control of the university's three brick-and-mortar campuses.
Global Campus now exists largely independent of those campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield.
The university opened the campus in January 2008 as a way to reach more students and generate revenue though thousands of enrollments.
But so far the online venture has just over 400 students.
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Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
