The plan was intended in part to offer students at the state’s 112 community colleges a way to take courses that might have been canceled or overcrowded because of state budget cuts. But some faculty were concerned about getting entangled with a proprietary school. Even with a discount, Kaplan planned to charge students $646 for a three-credit class, compared with $78 at a community college. Jane Patton, an instructor at Mission College in Santa Clara who is president of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, released a statement praising the cancellation. “We have been concerned about potential negative effects on students — particularly the fact that Kaplan courses could not later be carried with them to other universities,” she said.

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by Larry Gordon, The Los Angeles Times.

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