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   leftwingpatriot said, 10 months ago

   Forget the rankings, go for the money!
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   Linguist said, 10 months ago

   Waldon U – We’re here for You
   ( and, we guess,
   that government largess )
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 10 months ago

   Gordon Gekko character in movie “Wall Street”:
   π
   “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.”

   WALDEN DOESN’T NEED TO EDUCATE. WALDEN NEEDS TO MAKE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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   dtroutma said, 10 months ago

   Remember folks, “government” can’t create jobs, except at Liberty University!!
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 10 months ago

   @TheAwesomeBoiseStateBroncoFan

   “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
   —1 Timothy 6:10 KJV
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   capndunzzl said, 10 months ago

   …we’re only in it for the money….the real jobs are out sourced to other countries anyway.
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   SusanSunshine said, 10 months ago

   I always thought Walden WAS a for-profit school,
   and that’s why they took Zipper and his ilk when they couldn’t get into “real” schools.
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   Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 10 months ago

   @

   Talking to yourself, lwp?:D
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   bhinkle said, 10 months ago

   @dtroutma

   Absolutely right – your comment flows logically from the comic and the other comics. Fits right in there like a puzzle piece. Graduation creates jobs. You bring up Liberty U out of the blue – what is it’s graduation rate? Or do you have another reason for singling it out? Perhaps a sinister, snide, self-serving reason? Nah, can’t be. How about – at random – FAMU? Besides killing their Drum Major – 13% of them manage to graduate. Double Digits, baby!!! And the percent of their income from Federal funds? 87%. Yep – 87% of every dollar FAMU gets comes from taxes. How do those numbers compare to Liberty U’s? Of course – with the Executive Order on Educational Excellence … for African Americans only – that will just increase the largess for a racially-selected group. AWBs can’t catch a break.
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    Doughfoot said, 10 months ago

    I got my MS through an online program. Never saw the campus before graduation day. But at least there was a campus, and a graduation day. Got to walk across the stage in the gym and receive my diploma from the president of the college. White beard and all. (Me not him.) And earning that degree was no cinch.
    Online education fills a niche, and online university programs can be a good thing. There was no program within commuting distance (none in the state, actually) and there was no other way for me to get that degree without quitting my job, and leaving my house and spouse behind.
    But some of these places don’t even deserve to be called diploma mills. They pitch their programs as great ways to get a degree and get a better job. The credential earned is of questionable value, and very few students earn even that. The school raises unrealistic expectations, suggests the task of finishing the program is much easier than it actually is, and encourages the student to take out loans (veterans are a prime target) to finance it. Half the time, or more, the student discovers that he just can’t do it. These are people often without the skills needed, who are holding down jobs or trying to support a family or have other difficulties. So he finally quits the program without a degree, and worse off than before. Now he has an uncompleted education (which doesn’t generally impress an employer) and a big fat student debt to repay. The “university’s” owners make a nice profit, and the instructors get paid (though not as well as if that worked in a real school), and the taxpayers and the students are left holding the bag. All perfectly legal, but it smells like scam to me.
    Perhaps the problem is the loans. But I don’t exactly know the solution. Making loans to veterans and others to help them get a better education seems like a good idea, nobody likes the idea of “big brother” telling which schools you can or can’t enroll in, or, worse, telling you that you can’t have the loan because you are not capable of making proper use of the opportunity. And government investments of all kinds are always made at a higher risk. Sure things never need government loans because private loans can always be had for sure things. But common sense would suggest that loans made with public money ought still to be make with a degree common prudence.
    Fortunately there has been some movement in the right direction. Institutions like the University of Phoenix are no long hiring recruiters and salesmen to go out there and sign up students, paying them commissions on each enrollment, acting like the realtors who talked naive people into houses and mortgages that they could not reasonably expect to pay off.
    And in all fairness, it should be noted that not everyone who enrolls in one of these programs intends to earn a degree. Sometimes they just want to take a few courses. So a portion of the 2/3 of students who drop out should not actually be held against the institution.
    
    Nevertheless, as usual, GBT is pointing out a real problem here, if (cartoon-wise) there is some hyperbole at work.
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    Clark Kent said, 10 months ago

    And if they actually graduate, see Dilbert 7 Aug 2012 for job.
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    Beleck3 said, 10 months ago

    well, i see the comic strip is back to its’ usual themes. i was curious as to what we would see.

    Failure factories get $32 billion, wow. educating the public is why i like Doonesbury. wonder what’s next?
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    masterskrain said, 10 months ago

    I wonder what might happen to America in the future if Colleges and Universities actually started to get back to their REAL job, providing a continuing education to tomorrow’s leaders, rather then their current mission, which seems to be trying to field championship sports teams to make money from Television Rights, and donations from the Alumni Associations!
    When Universities like The University of Florida cut a Computer Engineering Program to save $1.8 Million, and then turn right around and increase the Athletic Department’s budget $2 Million, I have to think that SOMEONE’S priorities are totally screwed up!
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 10 months ago

    How come nobody has mentioned “affirmative action” yet?
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    Nantucket19 said, 10 months ago

    @bhinkle

    Liberty University teaches creationism in a biology class.
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