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   leftwingpatriot said, 10 months ago

   There actually is a for-profit school called Walden University.
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   Linguist said, 10 months ago

   Yes, they advertise on television. At first I thought it was a Trudeau joke but no, it’s real.
   Imagine how proud you’d be to introduce your son or daughter as a Walden grad ? Sort of like getting a B.S. degree from Slaggard U.
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   too-zonked said, 10 months ago

   NASA rocks.
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   Linguist said, 10 months ago

   @too-zonked

   No kidding. I watched it live stream on the NASA channel. Absolutely amazing !!
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   Tog said, 10 months ago

   @too-zonked

   Too true. Another brilliant achievement.
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   Paula R. Stiles said, 10 months ago

   Funny, I was under the impression that most colleges are in it for the dough.
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   feverjr said, 10 months ago

   Amount of federal money in 2010 that went to….

   National Public Radio: $2.7 million

   Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University: $446 million
   ……..
   http://themoderatevoice.com/111406/student-loans-private-universities-and-npr/
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 10 months ago

   @feverjr

   That’s 165 times MORE tax-payer money dumped onto a “university” whose faculty, staff and students MUST believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old and that evolution science is the work of the devil!
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   Gary McSpook said, 10 months ago

   Out of curiosity, what kind of degrees are offered at Liberty U? A B of S seems unlikely, as they deny most science. Are they just turning out ultra-conservative ministers?
   And how is it that they are getting ahold of almost 1/2 a billion dollars annually? That’s almost what the failed solar energy company here in CA cost the gopvernment, but that was just a one-time loss.
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    Astolat said, 10 months ago

    Er, sorry, can you help a Brit understand that? We always thought your universities weren’t subsidised like ours, and that’s why the fees were so high (a policy our government is now desperately trying to emulate…). How does Liberty Univiersity get close on half a billion dollars in a year, and is that what it gets every year?
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    Heidi Tentee said, 10 months ago

    Well, more people attend Falwell’s university than listen to NPR.
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    Dunestrider said, 10 months ago

    Check out the Sam Houston Institute of Technology, my alma mater.
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    Alabama_Al said, 10 months ago

    @Paula R. Stiles

    Most colleges and universities are expected to at least be self supporting. (Some may receive subsidies from government or religious organizations. But in all cases these subsidies cover only a small percentage of the college’s operation costs.) However, over the last 20 years there has been a proliferation of private for-profit learning institutions that, judging from the students of these schools I have encountered, are little better than diploma mills.
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    capndunzzl said, 10 months ago

    …a sad statement for the way it’s really going here in the good old U.S. of A.
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    StCleve72 said, 10 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    And that there’s an invisible man in the sky who hears every thought you have and passes judgement on you and will send you to hell if you’re bad to burn forever in torment, and who loves you (thanks George Carlin). Hey, whatever happened to that separation of church and state thing anyway?
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