HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Duke Faculty Say No. “Duke University faculty members, frustrated with their administration and skeptical of the degrees to be awarded, have forced the institution to back out of a deal with nine other universities and 2U to create a pool of for-credit online classes for undergraduates. . . . Pfau said the effort would have represented an ‘intensification of the view that all courses are commodities’ and worried the Semester Online effort would stifle hiring by allowing universities to send students to online for-credit classes offered by other universities rather than hiring faculty to teach those subjects on their own campuses. Pfau argued courses are ‘zero sum game’ and if a student can take a class from elsewhere it won’t be offered at Duke.”