Framing online learning as inherently suspect while treating the traditional classroom as the gold standard has never been grounded in evidence.

Potential stumbling blocks include insufficient understanding of career options, adjusting to professional networking and transferring credits.

Enrollment is flowing toward programs that offer clear economic value, forcing colleges to rethink their operating model.

Self-examination is essential. But the premise of a single, unified higher education system in need of homogeneous reform is fundamentally flawed because no such monolith exists.