All they wanted was an education. All they got was debt. More and more former students at Kaplan University – the lucrative chain of “for-profit” colleges owned by the Washington Post Company – are coming forward with horror stories about the bogus classes, surprise fees and [...]
Archive for January 27th, 2011
January 27th, 2011 - 5:01 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
Disgruntled Students Start Petition to Close Kaplan U
January 27th, 2011 - 11:07 am § in Misc.
Seattle Firm Targets Football Market
The Notre Dame fighting Irish will feature new mouth guards developed by X2 Solutions in Seattle. The X2 product system provides custom fitted protective mouthguards and a low profile headband that holds a small sensor pod against the base of the back of the athlete’s head. Market launch is [...]
January 27th, 2011 - 9:43 am § in Uncategorized
Can the US export free speech when it creates branch campuses in repressive societies?
As an admirer of Korean society I find this exciting. Korea is creating a campus for multiple universities at Inchon. The idea is to offer something like an industrial park with shared facilities to schools wishing to have a presence in South Korea. These schools will work with Korean Universiti[...]
CENSORSHIP: China’s Big Sis Offers a Bad Vision for US Campus
based on material from Secrecy News and the San José Mercury An unclassified report from the CIA, describes the Student Informant System [SIS], a campus spy network established by China’s totalitarian government following Tiananmen Square in 1989. ‘ The report says that “the prin[...]
Should We Shrink Colleges And Admit Fewer Students?
I’m good at asking questions that I don’t know the answer to. Does this mean the four universities, two graduate schools, and three community colleges I attended did a good job of teaching me how to think? (Another question I don’t know the answer to!). I do know that colleges have[...]