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Extracted Content: The Indiana university will expand online with support from the entity formerly known as for-profit Kaplan. Plans reflect debate over how two unlike institutions can (and should) combine strengths.
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Close to two years after the initial announcement, answers are beginning to emerge. Purdue last month established a central administrative office, Purdue Online, to act as an online program manager of sorts for the institution’s three on-ground campuses as well as Purdue Global, which now exists as a public benefit corporation and does not receive state funding. Administrators told “Inside Digital Learning” they’re eager to learn from Purdue Global’s successes but not yet at the point of sharing technical infrastructure or combining staff resources.