When the economy slows down, people have no where else to go...except maybe back to school.
The fopros usually benefit the most as the are usually professionally and vocationally focused.
In the second quarter of this year -
ITT Educational Services Inc. saw total enrollment increase 6 percent in its technical colleges located in 33 states.
As ITT job placement rates improve for its graduates, it can expect its enrollments to keep growing as well.
Laureate Education reported a 27% higher enrollment.
Strayer Education Inc. saw its enrollment grow 15%.
DeVry, not to be out done saw enrollments increase by 12%.
Career Education is alone among this group with enrollments decreasing by 8 percent among its 75 campuses. But, then CEC has a bus load of legal problems including one of its major schools American Intercontinental University being placed on probation.
Fopros are here to grow for the time to come....
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Online Diplomas are Trash
Although members of the media and some academicians have been saying that online instruction is the wave of the future, one simple fact remains: Online schools provide a second-rate education and diplomas from online institutions are essentially trash.
Until the summer of 2006, I was associated with a university that maintained a large online division in northern Virginia plus 43 satellite campuses in 10 southeastern states and the District of Columbia. For approximately five years I taught online business courses in both synchronous and asynchronous modes. To my chagrin, I discovered the following:
• The school has no library to speak of. It maintains various “Learning Resource Centers” that collectively have 27,000 volumes or one book for each of the estimated 27,000 students who study online or at satellite campuses. Indiana University’s library system, in contrast, has 8.2 million volumes.
• Quizzes and exams are online, open-book and unproctored. Students routinely enlist others to help them at exam time.
• There is pressure on instructors to give high grades and thereby maintain full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment numbers. Instructors who have the temerity to give grades of C or D are called in for counseling.
• Students never meet or have direct contact with instructors.
• The school has an open-enrollment policy which encourages unqualified or marginally qualified applicants. Nevertheless, approximately one-third of all students graduate with “honors.”
Incredibly, this institution is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Gary Jacobsen, B.S., M.B.A
Member, American Association of University Professors
Posted by: Gary Jacobsen | August 28, 2006 7:15 AM | Permalink to Comment