An Increasingly Popular Job Perk: Online Education - Mary Ellen McIntire, Chronicle of Higher Ed

The announcement is one of several recent deals between a college and a corporation that will expand higher-education opportunities for employees at no or reduced cost, following a high-profile deal, announced last year, between Starbucks and Arizona State University. On Monday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced a similar arrangement with Strayer University. Max Woolf, a senior analyst at Eduventures who has written about corporate partnerships in higher education, said that big-name partnerships announced in the past year had broken the ice for other companies to seek similar deals. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/an-increasingly-popular-job-perk-online-education/56771