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I guess Trumps feels that since his college failed why not screw all of them!
His "college" wasn't a college. It was a training program.
Called a fraud b/c you just can't train, you actually have to DO something. Like work. And not just from your mommy's basement.
Anyone can pass their local RE Licensing "exam". If they care to. Not exactly rocket science.
The "real" colleges that are "for profit" can and do fail.
Charlotte School of Law is a recent failure.
Local food drive announced on FB so the students can eat. Not the same as the crowdfunding begging for food...
Run by liberals, liberal FAILURE.
Only reason I heard about this is that a HUGE liberal friend of mine was just bragging that he was made a dean at this college - maybe a year ago.
He had no problem making his $$$ (traveled all over EU this summer, with his CSoL students) while he knew EXACTLY what was going on.
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The Charlotte School of Law may not be able to outrun the latest—and most damning—chapter of its at-times-scandalous existence. For years, the for-profit school was targeted by critics for its increasingly negative student outcomes: median LSAT scores in the low 140s, state bar-passage rates that hovered around 45 percent, high student indebtedness, and lackluster employment figures. In 2014, a routine re-accreditation site visit by officials from the American Bar Association led to closer scrutiny of the school’s admissions and teaching practices. That same year, it appears the school began offering $11,200 grants to students who delayed taking the bar. During October of last year, the school was placed on probation by the American Bar Association.
It’s looked into the face of a government offering help for the students and said, “nah.” And now they need to crowdsource a food bank to provide for students.
9 freakin' billion dollars a year?? What the heck?
No wonder they are screaming to the high hills about Trump. They have a lot to lose with a smaller government approach.
This is why college is so expensive...
I would say all colleges and public schools have a lot to lose, education is not exactly one of the key issues for many conservatives. Look at almost any state that needs to make budget cuts, education is Always on the list, especially in Red States. This year a large number of states are going to have large budget shortages and they will be forced to make cuts, watch where they cut, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Why would you want to pull federal funding for research, healthcare and education, these are all positives that make our universities the top institutions in the world.
A lot of it is. Some important and relevant, some....not so much. Notice that "studies" and statistics and "facts" compiled by "studies" are quite often cited in many political arguments. Just on this board. Usually by leftist debaters, though there are also "studies" cited from conservative based research as well. The focus of many (far to many) of this research is in some areas that serve to rather baffle many people.
A lot of ...environmental...things, and of course politically focused matters, often relating to demographics and compiling data on opinions in various regions of the country. We've all seen reports on things labeled as "research" that leave us scratching our heads as to its value, especially when we see the price tag hung on it.
At the same time, there is funding used for research we can all relate to. Much of it medically relevant. I have seen this at work in one notable university in CA that I mentioned earlier. UC Davis. Nevertheless, I tend to be of the opinion that before copious amounts of federal money is doled out in grants for research, the subject of that research should be reviewed more carefully. This would serve toward keeping the truly important science receiving needed funds while keeping the nutty stuff from sucking those funds away. After all, what seems more important? Developing new treatments and surgical methods for treating chronic debilitating diseases and conditions or how cattle farts effect global warming?
There are public universities out there that are now ensuring that ALL students, regardless of whether they take the inane 'liberal arts' courses we all know have been deliberately indoctrinating new liberals into the fold, are expanding their mandatory courses on subjects like Civics to grab the minds of STEM students as well. Civics .. well, that should be a wonderful thing to teach .. all Americans should have a good background in the (real) history of the US and its Constitution. Agreed - and it should have been taught in grade school - but the problem with these particular courses is the focus and main content which does NOT spend much, if any time, on those good basic things but instead overtly promotes activism even to the extent of requiring all students to hit the streets to protest something in order to pass the courses. Any public institution of higher learning which does this - impose mandatory and deliberately inflammatory courses on all students regardless of their major - should have at least the ability to fund those activities curtailed.
The Milo issue at Berkeley has to do with the fact that free speech is being unfairly suppressed at many college campuses - but it is being done without saying that speakers with which the administration disagrees cannot come there. What is happening is that when a speaker with which the administration does agree and wants to promote is scheduled, no security fees are imposed. They know that their conservative students won't destroy anything or make waves - because they believe in free speech so in theory security won't be required (but, if it should be, they would provide it at no cost anyway).
When someone who they don't really want there to influence their students is set to arrive, at the last minute they ask for huge sums to cover the security side of things (and then encourage their more liberal students to go out and protest and destroy stuff to prove that security was required - but, when that security IS required, the security officers just stand around and watch the destruction happen anyway). If students cannot raise (or the speaker can't or won't pay for the security fees they were never even told about till the last minute) the monies, sometimes the speaker has to be cancelled or if the money is found and the speaker decides to go ahead anyway, the protesters will ensure that it is scary or even dangerous for either the speaker or the attendees to enter/exit the venue. Meanwhile the university can say .. we allowed them here but they decided not to speak or come. We didn't inhibit free speech. They were quitters.
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