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times  OTHER VIEWS: Use technology to improve higher education
Experiments like the University of South Carolina's Palmetto
College are a good start. This program will allow students with
two years of classroom college credits to finish a bachelor's
degree online.      That could change if colleges and
universities move to a higher-volume business model that isn't
based on residential students.  If students don't have to live
on campus, then they and their parents don't have to pay the
college for room and board costs, which often equal tuition.
That would allow South Carolina to have a more educated and
higher-skilled workforce, which would enable us to better
attract businesses, improving our economy.  USC and other state
schools should push forward with online learning. The function
of these colleges is not to win football games or to reach high
rankings in national magazines. It is to prepare South
Carolinians and the state's workforce for