U of I starting over with Global Campus

University of Illinois trustees have voted to radically remake the school's 18-month-old Global Campus after it failed to draw the thousands of students expected.

Trustees meeting in Chicago voted Thursday to follow a loose faculty plan to scrap most of the current version of Global Campus. Trustees say the details about how to do that will be worked out between now and July.

University President Joseph White told trustees that the faculty plan is the best way forward for online education at Illinois.

The virtual school will be brought under the close control of the university's three brick-and-mortar campuses. Now it exists largely independent of those campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago and Springfield.