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Thursday, January, 14, 2010

New School Announced: 'The College for Working Families'


Yet another new thing in higher education, brought about by the financial crisis, the "first and only accredited degree-granting online institution devoted exclusively to educating union members."

Here's the press release and here's The New York Times' Steven Greenhouse writing about it:
The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the main umbrella group for the nation’s labor unions, announced on Thursday that it was joining with the National Labor College and the Princeton Review to create an online college for the federation’s 11.5 million members and their families.

The new college, tentatively named the College for Working Families, will seek to “expand job opportunities for its members by providing education and retraining in a way that’s affordable and accessible,” the founders said.
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