U of Arkansas Ends eVersity Online University

The University of Arkansas system last week ended its eVersity, an online university, The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

The university was started in 2014 and was hailed as a way for the university to educate adult students. It has only 120 students.

Instead, the university will promote online learning through the University of Arkansas Grantham, which was created in August when the university bought for $1 Grantham University, a for-profit university based in Lenexa, Kan., with approximately 5,500 students. The students at eVersity will be able to finish their degrees or programs at Grantham.