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Here's your SCUP Link to "Why Did Wal-Mart Choose American Public University?"

 New York Times writer Micheline Maynard wondered, too, and thus this story (in which SCUP gets a mention).

Wal-Mart surveyed 81 institutions, including for-profits, nonprofits, online universities, brick-and-mortar colleges, and “even some of the open-source, open-platform online offerings that are out there,” said Alicia Ledlie Brew, senior director of Wal-Mart’s lifelong learning program.

It had several criteria: a program with clear, low pricing (American Public charges $250 a credit hour, a price that has not changed in 10 years, Mr. Boston told the UBS audience); one that was accredited; a college that offered a variety of degrees and course subjects; and one that was used to dealing with adult students.

In a survey of employees, more than two-thirds told Wal-Mart they preferred an online college to a physical one.