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By Matt Reed. Employer partnerships aren’t new in higher education.  For a long time, through the 1990’s, they were fairly widespread.  The usual arrangement held that employees who worked at a given company during the day could take night classes someplace local, and get their tuition (or a set portion thereof) reimbursed.  Many of those programs got cut in the 2001 recession, shortly before online education took off.
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