The Gloves Are Off: What a Deal Between a Mega-University and a Community-College System Says About the Fight for Students

Transfer agreements don’t usually signal a sea change. The one that Pennsylvania’s community-college system just announced with Southern New Hampshire University may be one that does. It also raises a lot of interesting issues about the increasing competition for students — it’s a market out there, folks — and whether expectations for relationships among public-college systems are going out the window.