WGU Washington Chancellor Jean Floten on Seattle Times’ Education Lab Blog

WGU Washington Chancellor Jean Floten traveled to Austin, TX earlier this month to participate in a panel discussion on the merits of low-cost degrees at the annual SXSWedu conference.

While some critics argue Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s call for the creation of a $10,000 bachelor’s degree represents the “Walmartization” of higher education, Floten offered an alternative perspective in an interview with Seattle Times Higher Education Reporter Katherine Long. “To me, it’s not so much the $10,000 degree as it is that higher education needs to find better ways to deliver its content,” Floten said, according to a post on the Seattle Times’ Education Lab Blog this morning.”What can we do to be cheaper, faster, better?”

Check out the full Education Lab Blog post here.