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Claia Bryja said, 3 months ago
May I be the first to say that I find this story arc depressing?
too-zonked said, 3 months ago
>> I find this story arc depressing?
It’s only the truth that hurts
jnik23260 said, 3 months ago
@Claia Bryja
I find it refreshing! And Zipper’s gone back to his clueless self!
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 3 months ago
I pity the fools who invest in Walden.
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
“Shift Scarce Resources from Instruction to Marketing…”
In other words, less spent on actual teaching, more on sports, NCAA contracts, and wooing alumni.
Yup, sounds very true nowadays!
Astolat said, 3 months ago
By “challenging” he of course means p*obl*m*tic, the word, that dare not speak its name in management circles. Any time now they’re going to have to come up with a new word for “challenging”. “Differently parametered”, perhaps.
vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago
fire the president of walden. for profit is crap. students lose, teachers lose, and the only winners are admin and stockholders.
Tucci said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain
“Shift Scarce Resources from Instruction to Marketing…”
“In other words, less spent on actual teaching, more on sports, NCAA contracts, and wooing alumni.”
Just how much “actual teaching” goes on in America’s modern liberal arts curricula (e.g., such as we see portrayed in Trudeau’s imaginings of Walden) anyway?
Since the economy turned toes-up in 2007 (and has not recovered in the interim), we see how millions of college graduates have been churned out over the decades with no marketable skills suiting them for productive work, and knowledge bases which are either wholly useless or so divergent from factual reality as to be detrimental to addressing real-world situations.
One aspect not being considered by Trudeau (ooh, big surprise!) are the disadvantages that will hammer Walden when it surrenders nonprofit status for the dubious and already evidently unsustainable condition of “proprietary education.”
To make for-profit education work, the customers (and third-party payors, like the federal government in the forms of grants and G.I. benefits) must be convinced that such services are a value-add proposition.
With so many non-STEM college graduates working the drive-thru windows of America in our government-busted economy, that’s not a path to success for a demonstrably mediocre institution like Walden.
bawana said, 3 months ago
Well-paying,“good” jobs are not created from thin air. With the increasing efficiency of manufacturing today, you need less workers and less supervisors. When you couple this with the ever-increasing population of the world, and throw in ever tightening pollution laws, it is no wonder we have BAs and even MBAs work’in the drivethru at fast food joints in America today! I believe kids today continue their post-secondary education because they have nothing better to do. Don’t kid yourselves about for profit schools- without them, we wouldn’t have hardly anything to watch on new years day…….
Beleck3 said, 3 months ago
substitute America for Walden U and presto. the 1% know how to “sell” us out. fascinating how easy Americans are to pay for their own scamming. lol. such idiots. Marketing is such a Rigth wing scam. lol too bad American didn’t listen to Dwight Eisenhower.
as they say, “only in America” Business before People.
the American Way. got to love the suckers who buy this BS. like Zipper. and the Great American Fascist/Capitalistic State we are now.
Matthew Davis said, 3 months ago
@masterskrain
Not really. The model they’re looking at is University of Phoenix or DeVry. I don’t follow sports, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t any big-name for-profits in NCAA or other sports organizations.
Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago
@Claia Bryja
Depressing , indeed..
Marketing is an “evil”, but, at least today, a necessary evil.
Education and knowledge will replace it and society will be much better off.
Adrian
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
@Matthew Davis
I just remember thinking how stupid it was to hear about the University of Florida cutting an entire branch of Computer Sciences, and closing the lab to save $1.75 Million a year, but at the same time raising the Athletics Department Budget $2 Million a year!
Somebody had their priorities wrong, I felt…
Omnius said, 3 months ago
This is what the republicans want of our education system, massive profits for a few and a very dumbed down education for the masses.
saltbreez said, 3 months ago
masterskrain, U of F looks at return on investment and time has proven that American industry view CS skills as a commodity. While CS jobs may occasionally be high paying, the longevity of the higher paying slots is relatively short. This is disastrous on the economic well being of the CS grads, and totally destroys any ability to return $$ to their Alma Mater. U of F understands these facts.