{"id":82169,"date":"2022-08-03T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82169"},"modified":"2022-08-03T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:56:28","slug":"two-years-after-promising-a-transformational-partnership-the-u-of-arizona-and-zovio-part-ways-bauman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/08\/03\/two-years-after-promising-a-transformational-partnership-the-u-of-arizona-and-zovio-part-ways-bauman\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Years After Promising a \u2018Transformational\u2019 Partnership, the U. of Arizona and Zovio Part Ways [Bauman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/two-years-after-promising-a-transformational-partnership-the-u-of-arizona-and-zovio-part-ways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Two Years After Promising a \u2018Transformational\u2019 Partnership, the U. of Arizona and Zovio Part Ways<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from chronicle.com by\u00a0\u00a0Dan Bauman<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The University of Arizona Global Campus announced on Monday it would take over management of its online education programs from Zovio Inc. \u2014 the same company that two years earlier\u00a0transferred\u00a0its for-profit college holdings to the University of Arizona in what was touted then as a \u201ctransformational\u201d agreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The news marks a precipitous end for the original deal, Arizona acquired Zovio\u2019s Ashford University in 2020 and created the University of Arizona Global Campus, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the traditional public university.<\/p>\n<p>The article links to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uagc.edu\/about\/message-from-president?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Open Letter from Paul Pastorek<\/a>&#8221; (President of the University of Arizona Global Campus) &#8212; from uagc.edu<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As an institution, this new chapter reflects our belief that our mission demands that the governance and control of critical functions, in particular enrollment, marketing, student advising, and financial aid, rest exclusively with UAGC leadership. It is grounded in a conviction that outsourcing such functions is inherently at odds with our aspirations and desired outcomes. Placing all of our services under one roof, we believe, will increase efficiency, reduce costs, and is a necessary precondition to making good on our commitments to our students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Years After Promising a \u2018Transformational\u2019 Partnership, the U. of Arizona and Zovio Part Ways &#8212; from chronicle.com by\u00a0\u00a0Dan Bauman Excerpt: The University of Arizona Global Campus announced on Monday it would take over management of its online education programs from Zovio Inc. \u2014 the same company that two years earlier\u00a0transferred\u00a0its for-profit college holdings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,86,209,127,115,302,346,95,3,7,62,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-distance-education","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-online-learning","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82174,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82169\/revisions\/82174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}