“Nearly 67 percent of presidents and chancellors of state universities and state university systems believe that online education is “critical” to the long-term strategies of their institutions, but only 40 percent reported having online education represented in their institutional strategic plans, according to a new survey by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The survey also asked what barriers exist to the growth of online learning. The top answers: the expense of developing online courses and “greater faculty time and effort” required.”

Source: http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/12/qt

Link to "Online Learning as a Strategic Asset: A Survey of Presidents and Chancellors":  http://www.nasulgc.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=443 (20 pages, .PDF)

This is merely a parallel to the much more comprehensive Sloan-C 'Online Nation' and only covers 77 (out of 215) state universities and land grant colleges - as opposed to 2504 (out of 4491)  in the Sloan-C survey last month  Also of particular note is that for this survey the target respondent was specifically the president or chancellor of the college or university rather than the chief academic officer; that alone may largely account for the discrepancy  in the response rate (35.8% and 55.8%) and partially for slight inconsistencies in the data.  At least with Sloan-C we get actual numerical data in tables as well as graphs; here we get the inherent vagueness of bar charts only and almost no precise numbers to kick around