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Patricia Reeling, associate professor of library science at Rutgers University library school, told New Jersey's Commission on Higher Education June 26 that she found disturbing a University of Phoenix proposal to offer students only digitized library resources on its planned New Jersey business-school campus.
The commission listened to more than an hour of testimony on the university's petition to grant undergraduate and graduate business degrees in New Jersey. The university serves 48,000 students in 12 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada.
The Associated Press reported June 27 that Reeling had joined several New Jersey education leaders on a visit to the Phoenix campus, which, they determined, lacked such academic basics as library books. "I didn't even see books in the bookstore," she noted.
Charles Siegel, UP's vice president for national affairs, countered that the university has an online library catalog with access to "millions of journals" and that only 10% of course instruction takes place in chat rooms.
Posted July 6, 1998.
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