It’s fair to say Purdue President Mitch Daniels has gotten a mixed reaction to his proposal of buying online education purveyor Kaplan. Conservative education pundits have claimed it’s a new front in the struggle to educate a Hoosier workforce that doesn’t have enough college degrees. But faculty point out they weren’t consulted about the decision and it could dilute Purdue’s brand of rigorous post-secondary schooling. This month on WBAA’s Monthly Conversation with Mitch Daniels, we ask about an

It’s no secret what the biggest topic is on this edition of WBAA’s Monthly Conversation With Mitch Daniels. We could easily have filled the whole show with the many lingering questions about Purdue’s deal to buy online educator Kaplan University. We won’t, but we will ask Purdue’s leader why the deal doesn’t include provisos mandating more transparency, whether he was prepared for the backlash he’s received and whether that backlash creates more possibility that any of the agencies which still