August 28, 2011
Online Venture Energizes Vulnerable College
But some faculty at Southern N.H. fear for future of bricks-and-mortar campus
M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle
Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire U.: "The traditional campus ... now has the resources to be even more traditional."
Enlarge ImageManchester, N.H.
If you sketched a portrait of a college in a dicey economic spot, it might look like Southern New Hampshire University.
The private nonprofit university is little known nationally, not selective, and depends on tuition. It sits in a state whose population of public high-school graduates is projected to decline for years.
But rather than limping along, this obscure institution is becoming a regional powerhouse—online.
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