San Jose State U. Adopts New Policy for Online and ‘Hybrid’ Courses

San Jose State University, whose high-profile experiments with online teaching last year drew scrutiny, has adopted a new policy on how “technology-intensive, hybrid, and online courses” may be created and run on its campus. The policy follows concerns that university administrators—and particularly the president, Mohammad H. Qayoumi—have ignored the principles of shared governance.

“The university will not agree in a contract with any private or public entity to deliver technology-intensive, hy...