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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 23, 2020 16:00:59 GMT -5
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Post by rgs318 on Jul 23, 2020 16:38:51 GMT -5
Seeing Clark and Brandeis listed as at risk was a bit of a shock. Nice to see HC in the "thrive" group - even if it has to be with Harvard.  |
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jul 23, 2020 16:45:44 GMT -5
While I'm happy to see HC on the "thrive" list (and hope it to be so), I'm skeptical of much of this article. I think Brandeis has an endowment over a billion dollars.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 23, 2020 16:47:07 GMT -5
Yes, those two surprised me as well
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Post by rf1 on Jul 23, 2020 16:59:22 GMT -5
I don't think Mt Holyoke is going to perish any time soon. This analysis was hard on the women's colleges. Mt Holyoke, Wellesley, and Smith are probably all in decent shape. Simmons however might face issues.
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Post by rickii on Jul 24, 2020 10:08:35 GMT -5
What the heck is Mass live ?
What a cheery story. Someone went to a lot of effort solely to promote fear, anguish and angziety among slums, students and employees of some of these schools.
Garbage!!
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Post by rgs318 on Jul 24, 2020 10:12:26 GMT -5
Interesting typo..."slums?"
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 24, 2020 10:26:12 GMT -5
What the heck is Mass live ? What a cheery story. Someone went to a lot of effort solely to promote fear, anguish and angziety among slums, students and employees of some of these schools. Garbage!! Do you think that was the intent? Surely it is a result but I cannot imagine that was the writer's goal |
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Post by Ray on Jul 24, 2020 10:50:01 GMT -5
What the heck is Mass live ? What a cheery story. Someone went to a lot of effort solely to promote fear, anguish and angziety among slums, students and employees of some of these schools. Garbage!! FYI, Masslive didn't produce this, they're just regurgitating the content. Google "colleges struggle/perish/survive/thrive" and you'll see dozens of web sites recirculating this article. The original work (https://www.profgalloway.com/uss-university) is from an NYU professor and noted critic of the higher ed business model. So feel free to accuse him of projecting his biases. But he has actual credentials. This isn't some rinky-dink website coming up with clickbait, which is what you make it sound like. |
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 24, 2020 10:54:55 GMT -5
What a piece of dung, piled high.
He only included USNWR schools in the national category, so Providence, for example, didn't make the cut.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 24, 2020 16:36:32 GMT -5
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Post by timholycross on Jul 24, 2020 16:51:52 GMT -5
How exactly do state schools fail when they have the state backing them...and in the expected tough times in the next few years, the cost is relatively reasonable? Or is he assuming that state funding will be next to nothing for a while?
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 24, 2020 17:07:02 GMT -5
I looked at the spreadsheet. The next to last column has a vulnerability index value, the values of which are impossible to correlate with his predicted outcome.
Mt Holyoke has an endowment dollars per student value that is about $100K higher than HC's. MHC will perish, HC will thrive. IIRC, Mt Holyoke's student body is 28 percent international, which in his worldview, a terrible percentage.
This is an xenophobic, misogynistic algorithm he has devised. Women's colleges are penalized because their graduates aren't on Wall St. making big money.
And by positing that a high percentage of the 430+ nationally ranked institutions will "perish", what will happen to those many lesser institutions that are not nationally ranked? Before UMass Boston ever perishes, I would expect all the state universities (e.g., Worcester State University) to perish before it.
And why anyone, particularly a graduate of University of California system, would group public universities (which have the resources of the state behind them) with private universities is beyond me.
This is an analysis created by egoist, seduced by the brilliance of his own superficial thinking.
....And don't both reading his blog if you are a supporter of the incumbent resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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