This is weird. Is it just because Michael Young has been appointed for less then a year?[...]
Posts Tagged ‘WGU’
October 3rd, 2011 - 8:37 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Western Governors: a professor’s opinion
"Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path To College Degree." Guest blogger Johann Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and author of the book "Creating a Nation of Joiners" (2008). During the last legislative session in Washington state, faculty[...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 7:23 am § in Schools & Colleges
Current Western Governors student experience-your mileage may vary.
At the behest of Stephen, based on an earlier exchange via this website in June, here are my experiences with WGU thus far (1JUN2011-present) First-I can add some demographic information about me. male, white, 34, married, 4 kids Prior service, disabled veteran Bachelor of Scienc in Information Syst[...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 6:33 am § in Misc.
Western Governors University, a report by a very unhappy student and a response thread
from Ripoff Report, excerpted …. I start classes, if you can call the WGU intoductions to online education course a class. If you have an 8th grade education it is essentially busy work for a few weeks (cutting and pasting things from the school’s web site into Word documents to answer q[...]
September 26th, 2011 - 2:40 pm § in Schools & Colleges
UPDATE: Western Governors in Now Real! How to Get a Degree Really Cheap!
from the Huff Post The cost of a college education is rising, but the wages that pay for them aren’t. Over the last 20 years, while pay for the average American worker stagnated, college tuitions have risen drastically, according to an article by CNN Money. In fact, the average cost of tuition[...]
June 16th, 2011 - 1:26 pm § in Misc.
Western Governors University of Washington .. up and running?
They even have a web site: There is a lot to look at there, but let me start on page one, the “about WGUW” page. Over on the right they list two Washington state students who have praise for WGUW. Here is one of these: “WGU has been the perfect solution for me as it […][...]
May 23rd, 2011 - 8:45 pm § in Misc.
Selling online education, WGU style
Aside from the question of ACADEMIC standards, I have serious concerns about the PROPRIETY of how WGU and the associated online “industry” advertizes its services. Here are a few clips I made from online WGU ads as well as a recent generic video promoting the onlne ed industry:[...]
Let WGU manage the Huskies!
Now that Western Governors Washington is a Washington state university, why not ……? Imagine, without a need for faculty to annoy the athletes, their graduation rates would be wonderful! Imagine, for far less than the cost of athletic scholarship, WGU mentors could assure us that every at[...]
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[...]
The Huskies are heroes to the community … %$$# the students!
Last month Bloomberg Businessweek ran a longform report on Husky Stadium. I have copied the text with added comments and links it below but here are some highlights: “We were cutting billions of dollars out of our budget, and we are going to build a stadium. Really?” says Hunter, 51, a D[...]