{"id":4476,"date":"2018-01-11T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2019-07-13T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T13:41:29","slug":"kaplan-purdue-merger-name-remains-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/kaplan-purdue-merger-name-remains-controversial\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaplan-Purdue Merger Now Has a Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early last year, Purdue University, one of the nation&#8217;s prestigious land grant institutions, announced that it had purchased Kaplan University from Kaplan Inc. This week the university announced that the new entity will be called Purdue University Global. But will this new institution be able to overcome the controversies that have plagued its existence from the start?<\/p>\n<h2>Reactions to the Initial Announcement<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1774\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1774\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Purdue-1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purdue President Mitch Daniels Mitch Daniels announcing the university&#8217;s purchase of Kaplan in April 2017 (Purdue University photo\/John Underwood).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When announced last April, Purdue University&#8217;s acquisition of Kaplan came as a surprise to many and angered some stakeholders. The unprecedented acquisition was orchestrated by Purdue University&#8217;s current president, Mitch Daniels, a former Republican governor. For at least some Purdue faculty, the move appeared to be nothing more than an attempt to undermine the university&#8217;s commitment to public education, but Daniels disagreed, arguing that the move was in keeping with the university&#8217;s Land Grant mission.\u00a0At the time of the announcement,\u00a0Daniels was clear that the acquisition was also directly tied to Purdue&#8217;s desire to expand its online course and program offerings.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, Purdue acquired Kaplan\u2019s operations and all of its assets, including more than a dozen campuses and an estimated 30,000 students and 3,000 employees. Following the announcement, however, the new project received especially <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/purdues-kaplan-acquisition-angers-public-educators\/\">harsh feedback from Purdue faculty members<\/a>. The Indiana Conference of the American Association of University Professors, which represents Purdue faculty, has been especially critical.<\/p>\n<h2>What We Know about Purdue University Global<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2018\/Q1\/purdue-announces-name-for-new-public-university-purdue-university-global-to-serve-working-adults,-online.html\">press release<\/a> issued this morning, Purdue indicated that Purdue University Global (the chosen name for the new entity) is set to get the green light by Feb. 22. The university&#8217;s press release noted that the Indiana Commission for Higher Education had already voted unanimously to\u00a0approve\u00a0the acquisition in August and that the U.S. Department of Education gave its\u00a0approval\u00a0in September but with a stipulation that the new institution\u2019s name include the name Purdue.<\/p>\n<p>President Mitch Daniels, who continues to spearhead the project, was predictably enthusiastic, explaining, \u201cOur campuses are typically named after the physical locations where they hold classes. Purdue University Global can be accessed from anywhere in the world, at any time. The name proved appealing and meaningful to our various stakeholders \u2013 most importantly prospective students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the acquisition, Daniels will also be acquiring a new colleague. As reported this morning in the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, Betty Vandenbosch, president of Kaplan University, will become chancellor of the new entity known as Purdue University Global.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last year, Purdue University, one of the nation&#8217;s prestigious land grant institutions, announced that it had purchased Kaplan University from Kaplan Inc. This week the university announced that the new entity will be called Purdue University Global. But will this new institution be able to overcome the controversies that have plagued its existence from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1776,"comment_status":"open","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":[5,6],"tags":[6698],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-editors-picks","tag-higher-education"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kaplan-Purdue Merger Now Has a Name - eLearningInside News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The controversial Purdue University acquisition of Kaplan University in 2017 now has a name: Purdue University Global.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/kaplan-purdue-merger-name-remains-controversial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kaplan-Purdue Merger Now Has a Name - 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