WEST LAFAYETTE – A week after regulators came to campus to look over Purdue University’s pending plans to acquire the for-profit online education giant Kaplan University, more than 300 Purdue faculty members have signed a petition opposing the deal.
Strong objections to the lack of faculty involvement and how Purdue’s name and educational brand will be attached to a Kaplan University product – something professors have warned isn’t up to standards on the West Lafayette campus – remain at the heart of faculty protests.
“There are many reasons not to like this deal, but that’s one you’re going to hear time and time again,” said David Sanders, a biology professor and past chairman of University Senate, a faculty-heavy leadership body. “We feel they need to know our concerns.”
Sanders sent the petition, with 319 signatures of faculty on Purdue’s campuses, to the Higher Learning Commission this week.
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