We committed ourselves to moving forward with the Virtual University. A lot of people would express skepticism, and maybe some offense, that this initiative is being led by a group of governors. We have to include higher education. But you haven't turned it over to them, in your advisory structure or design plans. No, we haven't, because our job is to break down bureaucracy, regulation and tradition.
Higher education is a well-crafted system to maintain control.
They set themselves up as the only mechanism for judging quality. They need, like any other monopoly, to be prodded in some way. We're basically facilitating the delivery between systems. And every class that's offered, at least at this point, will be offered by a campus that presumably has been accredited by people who know quality when they see it. We intend to involve accreditation agencies and deal only with reputable institutions of higher education.