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The Indiana University System announced Wednesday that it would shut down its School of Continuing Studies to save as much as $4 million a year. The closure of the school, which provides online and evening classes to about 4,000 undergraduates and some non-degree programs as well, comes nearly a year after Indiana's governor, Mitch Daniels, essentially created a new online institution in the state by striking a deal to let the nonprofit Western Governors University provide courses to Indiana residents. At that time, the head of Indiana's continuing studies school said that he did not see the new arrangement creating too much overlap with the school's own market. "There's plenty of work to be done" in using online education to reach underserved Indianans, Dean Daniel J. Callison said.
