Interview with Laura Palmer Noone

by Laurie Henry Laura Palmer Noone is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Phoenix. The for-profit university has been accredited since 1978 and now boasts an enrollment of 68,000 on 85 campuses in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and British Columbia. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, about 90 percent of University of Phoenix courses, both on-site and online (about ten percent of all courses offered), are taught by part-time faculty members, although the number of full-time faculty members has increased in the last four years, in part because of the necessity of meeting […]