"The University of Arizona is acquiring the assets of forprofit college Ashford University from Zovio Inc. in an effort to establish itself as a major competitor in online education and attract more working-adult students domestically and abroad.
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The Arizona-Zovio deal developed against the backdrop of an upheaval in higher education, [Moi ici: A alteração do contexto] with the coronavirus pandemic hastening a shift for schools to provide more-robust online offerings. [Moi ici: Em vez de rejeitar, em vez de combater a mudança... abraçá-la] Schools that rely on traditional-age students are also bracing for a drop in enrollments for those straight out of high school, because of lower birthrates, [Moi ici: Outra alteração do contexto] so making inroads with working adults has become a more-crucial path for revenue growth. [Moi ici: Outra resposta à alteração de contexto. Perante a diminuição da procura anterior, a aposta numa procura complementar com um potencial novo]
“Higher education is changing,” said University of Arizona President Robert Robbins, adding that the deal was an opportunity to expand the school’s reach in both the domestic and global markets.[Moi ici: Outra alteração do contexto, o fim das barreiras geográficas. Outra aposta. O online em vez do presencial]Como é que a sua empresa vê o contexto a mudar? Que oportunidades podem ser agarradas?
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The University of Arizona has 4,200 online students now and will absorb Ashford’s roughly 35,000 students, quickly making it one of the bigger competitors in public and nonprofit university online education."
Isto é como recordar a casca de noz de 2008 e 2009.
Trechos retirados de "University Scales Up In Online Learning" no WSJ de hoje.
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