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As the City University of New York tries to create an in-house online program manager, here’s some unsolicited advice.

As the City University of New York tries to create an in-house Online Program Manager, here’s some unsolicited advice.

A: Let’s take those three goals one at a time. I was an undergraduate over 50 years ago. Back then, institutional quality was defined in terms of inputs to the educational process. The SAT scores of entering students, for example, and the qualifications of faculty, along with physical facilities such as the number of books in the library. SAT scores were important because student aptitudes (let’s say their intellectual capabilities) were assumed to be fixed, at least by the time they entere...