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My older sister, Cynthia Mary Watkins Lack, died this morning at about 9 AM. My heart is broken.
Archives for the Month of May, 2010
Goodbye Cynthia
Monday, 31 May 2010
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Our Bad Press
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Since I work at a for profit university I often feel a little twinge of guilt reading about some of the abuses in my industry. This recent NPR piece (“For-Profit Colleges Flexible But Expensive“) is no exception. As always, NPR makes a complex issue look simple. I realize that NPR, like all U.S. news outlets, love cheap-to-produce stories. It makes things seem much too simple sometimes, though.
I don’t mean to suggest that the private online higher education industry has no problems; far from it. I think we should shift to a not-for-profit status, perhaps if necessary through regulations so stringent that for profit status is untenable. I have yet to hear of any other solution that can…
