Early NYT Article on U.S. Public Distance Learning Colleges

query.nytimes.com — Thomas Edison College in Princeton, N.J., Charter Oak State College in Connecticut, Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., Metro State College in St. Paul, Minn., and the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay are among the dozen or so colleges that offer ''learning-at-adistance,'' and both their number and their student bodies are growing.