Web-school master; NYUonline targets corporate e-learning.(Gordon Macomber, New York University)(Brief Article)

Crain's New York Business, February, 2001 by walsh, mark

When Gordon Macomber was brought on board a year ago to spearhead New York University's drive onto the Internet, he fully expected a warm reception from faculty and administration alike. After all, it was the height of dot-com euphoria, and Mr. Macomber was handpicked by administrators to mine the new economy as chief executive of NYUonline Inc., the school's fledgling for-profit e-learning business.

Instead, what he got was a cold shower, with responses from professors and individual school deans ranging from utter indifference to open hostility. ``It got to a point in the early stages where I wondered if this would really work out,'' recalls Mr. Macomber, a publishing industry veteran and former president of Macmillan's reference division. Those...

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