The University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private for-profit higher-education institution, announced on Thursday that it had formed a partnership to offer some of its online courses free to students at historically black colleges.
The university has not yet made any arrangements with individual colleges, according to a spokesman, but has agreed to work with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, one of the three major fund-raising and membership organizations that support black colleges.
The deal is meant to help students at historically black colleges complete their degrees on time, as well as to give the colleges access to technology and online courses that they may not be able to offer on their own, said Johnny C. Taylor Jr., president and chief executive of the Thurgood Marshall fund.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-PhoenixThurgood/150043