Based on a a truly frightening article The Chronicle of Higher Education WGU may want to worry about its accreditation. Congress has gotten involved in accrediting online colleges. The motivation in Congress is that “for-profit” companies rake in federal financial aid withou[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pell Grants’
September 30th, 2011 - 9:52 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
NIH may get 3% at the cost of cuts to Pell grants
Inside Higher Education For those here who are not obsessed with the NIH budget, the usual process has been for the President to lowball and then lobbyists and Congress raise the budget. This year things are a LOT different. The Senate is proposing an increase of less than 1% with dictates on spen[...]
April 19th, 2011 - 12:14 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Is Higher Education a “Bubble?”
from The Center for College Affordability and Productivity on April 6th, 2011, by Richard Vedder Higher education is in a bubble situation-its price has risen sharply, fueled by cheap federal loan and grant money (sound familiar?) while the return on the investment has fallen. More and more college [...]
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 [...]
March 28th, 2011 - 7:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
Continued Concern About HB1822
I remain concerned that HB1822 is not what it it is being sold as to our legislature. Despite considerable effort, I have not yet been able to get answers to the simple question I have already asked. I fear that making WGU part of Washington’s higher ed system could degrade the quality of an e[...]
March 28th, 2011 - 5:59 am § in Schools & Colleges
Corresponding with the Gates Foundation about WGU .. is WGU a real university?
I have been corresponding with people at the Gates’ Foundation about their support for WGU. Good people there tell me that Gates has been associated with WGU for some time and is assured that WGU is not another online scheme like Phoenix or Ashford. I have made it clear that I am not oppos[...]
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[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Computer Science at an Online University, Western Governors University,
Ed. Michael Stiber, a UW professor on Computer Science at Western Governors University,” has written a brief review of the offerings in Computer Science at WGU. This is important because Comp Sci, Nursing and K-12 teacher education are the three areas where WGU claims to have considerable stre[...]
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 “[...]