Many of the proponents of online education are educated outside of the traditional centers of prestige education. Often these savants are enterpreneirs who have made their money in setting up businesses.
Michelle Bachman, represents a special case because of her prominence and her education in Americas newly created conservative establishment.
According to an article by Madison Bennett in The Daily Iowan, Michele Bachmann says the Internet is the answer. “There’s no question that higher education has outstripped costs,” she said. “So I’m really looking forward to exploring new ways of delivering higher education.”
Increasing online education, which she called “relatively free and accessible to almost any student,” is the way to compensate for a loss of funding, she said.
Michele Bachmann’s own educations is uniquely American. She graduated from Anoka High School in 1974 and, after graduation, spent time working on a kibbutz in Israel. In 1978 she graduated from Winona State University with a B.A. She got her law degree, a JD, from the O.W. Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University.” The law school was named for Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn’s father, O.W. Coburn, after he put up enough money to open the institution affiliated with evangelist Oral Roberts. Bachmann’s was the last graduating class in Oklahoma; the school shut down and most of the faculty and remaining students followed the law library to Virginia Beach, Va., where a new law school was opened at what is now known as Regent University. (Regent was founded by televangelist Pat Robertson as Christian Broadcasting Network University in 1978.)
After graduating from Oral Roberts in 1986, Bachmann went on to earn a master of laws degre from the College of William & Mary, a well-regarded public university.Gradel, a longtime Republican Party activist and ORU classmate, said of the Minnesota congresswoman., “You have to have pretty good grades to be admitted to William & Mary from a place like Oral Roberts.”