Starting after the Civil War, step by step America created a university system, including private and public colleges, that offered unheard of opportunities for an upwardly mobile America. The words are still thrilling .. GI Bill, Land Grant Universities, Pell Grants, National Merit Awards[...]
Posts Tagged ‘admissions’
April 10th, 2011 - 11:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
Defunding public education means Washingtons’ kids GET lost.
Ed. I aplogize for the pun, but someone needs to kick our representatives in the ass .. their ass and not the horse’s ass. Russia is ahead of us. With the fall of the evil communists, the evil capitalists have gone a long way to flush Russia’s once great education system down the dra[...]
April 8th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
We find ourselves subsidizing people that don’t have to graduate from college
Ed. The debate here about WGU hinges on money. I suspect the major source of money is public funds .. Pell, military, unemployment. This funding source presents a problem if the way we award this money to students is need based but assumes that the university will not just carry their students as [...]
April 7th, 2011 - 10:04 am § in Schools & Colleges
Falwell’s University goes Online, Receives $445 Million in Federal Student Aid
“Ramping up on-line courses will likely mean higher revenues for Liberty, because such courses can bring in hefty federal financial aid and student tuition payments at low institutional cost.” from Campus Progress: Liberty University, based in Lynchburg, Va., is famous for the fact that [...]
Comparing the New America to Haiti
“Watching our country dismantle its educational systems in the name of cost savings is akin to a family drowning its children to save on the grocery bill.” Dear Colleagues, In my work in Global Health over the past few years, I have had opportunity to travel to many health facilities and[...]
April 3rd, 2011 - 10:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
As the UW becomes an Ivy. will WA kids be turned away?
from Katherine Long at the Seattle Times: Why straight-A’s may not get you into UW this year In the face of continuing state budget cuts, academic leaders at the University of Washington in February made a painful decision to cut the number of Washington students the school will admit this fal[...]
March 29th, 2011 - 1:03 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Recruiting in China Pays Off for U.S. Colleges
By JACQUES STEINBERG, excerpted from NY Times Dozens of American colleges and universities are seeing a surge in applications (and similar brochures) from students in China, where a booming economy means that more families can pursue the dream of an American higher education. read more. By Karin Fis[...]
March 23rd, 2011 - 3:39 pm § in Uncategorized
“You are so wrong!!” More on HB1822 and Western Governors
Here is Rep. Phyllis Kenney’s response to my email asking questions about HB1822 “You are so wrong!!” That may be, but I still can not get answers to my questions from her or from any other source that supports Western Governors University. a. What is WGU’s real graduation ra[...]
Asian Higher Ed: Attendees Ask Where Are the Americans?
Ed. In a global world, shouldn’t we take the market value of our reputation seriously by recruiting the best students we can to Seattle? From a tuition POV, foreign students are a blessing .. they pay full boat, This is a lot better deal than following the pattern of Ashworth University [...]
March 10th, 2011 - 6:54 am § in Misc.
Privatize the UW: One Way to Make a LOT of Money
Ed. All this handringing over cuts to the UW budget. We are worried about losing the Evans School because it does not make enough money! Here is a private school, one with far less prestige than the UW, no NCAA football, AND a PROFIT of $127.000.000! How did they do it? The door marked “[...]