Thread regarding Liberty University layoffs

LU boiler room (NY Times)

"At the front lines are the “admissions representatives,” some 300 phone recruiters working two shifts from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., deploying call lists that Liberty gets from websites where people register and search for information about online higher education, like BestCollegesOnline.com."

"The recruiters work under intense pressure, according to several former L.U.O. employees I spoke with. They get no more than 45 seconds between calls, and sometimes managers override even that short break."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/magazine/how-liberty-university-built-a-billion-dollar-empire-online.html

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According to the NY Times article "Top performers are in the running for a small raise from the base salary, which is about $30,000."

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What is the average pay for admissions reps there at Liberty?

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The LU expose has been reprinted in Mother Jones. But how many targets for Liberty read the NT Times or Mother Jones?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/how-jerry-falwell-jr-transformed-liberty-university-into-a-wildly-profitable-online-empire/

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On the other side of the coin

'According to MacGillis, Liberty’s luxurious campus — including a $7 million year-round ski resort and a $3 million shooting range — is essentially funded by the revenue stream brought in by Liberty University Online: an online learning system that, the students profiled by MacGillis uniformly say, falls significantly short of American academic standards."

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17252510/online-degree-jerry-falwell-jr-liberty-university-propublica-nytimes

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