What happens when there are only 20 or fewer students at the Teach Out schools? Force them to go online until they graduate? It can't possibly be profitable at a certain point.
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The press around here is NOT interested in the ghost town campuses. I tried to connect the press to what's happening and they really didn't care. Purposely targeting low income students and saddling them with federal debt they'll never pay off isn't big news around here.
2rbh: Yes, there are teachout schools with less than 100. The TO school I recently visited is a ghost town. EDMC is all about profits and not education. How will they pull a profit towards the end (September 2017) if they have to have a class for 2 students? I'd guess that it'd go online as a final kick in the a-- to the remaining students.
@KVg5XPA-3bti, why is no one in the media covering these Ai ghost towns? Is the same thing happening at the Brown Mackie campuses?
Pretty much all teachout are below 100. Some are closing before the end of the year because they transferred all the students by offering large grants. They are scheduled to close by September and some even June. Several teachout will start the new year with around 60 students.
I know that teachouts are scheduled to be completed by September 2017. But are there really schools with enrollments below 100 right now? If so, can someone tell me which teachout campuses have become ghost towns? I am particularly interested to know what the numbers are at NEIA and AiNYC.
Quickly now! Someone has OD'd on the Kool aid.
Is that you Moonlighting?
1bfl: Really? Bwahahahaha
This is good to hear. It sounds like there is a plan to keep the University moving forward for both students and faculty. It will be interesting to see how the University negotiates possible changes under the Trump administration, but it seems like senior leadership has a good sense of direction and a team with plenty of experience in higher education.
Depends on the program. Sure any classes that are available online can be scheduled last, but some classes are not offered online.
They also try to transfer the students to other schools if they are close enough. However, there are only so many classes that are taught online anyway, so they couldn't do that with everything a student would need. Also, yes, the severance package was for both faculty and staff. I don't know if that includes online but I don't know why it wouldn't.
Don't worry... I have access to the data base of students and let them know that they are being forced into online to continue the scam.
Ok thanks good for online then. we only get to teach online classes when there are enough students so getting the other students to go online would be good. I also saw a post on a sevarence package but is that for faculty or just for the office people?