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What does the oligarch behind the ‘Ivy League antisemitism crisis’ actually want?
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- Title
- The University of Phoenixification of Elite Education
- Authors
- Maureen Tkacik
- Published
- Dec 22 2023
- Word count
- 2888 words
Can someone please rewrite this headline? I chose the subheading because I didn't like the original, but this headline seems overly confrontational and not actually the point of the article.
I mean, University of Phoenix is a pretty shit higher education.
They had a graduation rate of about 17% for the longest time. Now it's 26% while cutting almost any value it had away. That's pretty abysmal. The average these days for colleges is closer to 60%. (Community colleges tend to see lower rates since people transfer in to more prestigious colleges often). Having a University of Phoenix degree is almost anti-resume material...anybody who is paying attention knows you have more money than sense. I would immediately throw any resume that had that listed as the only degree in the bin.
The OG title is pretty legit, considering whom is pulling the strings. I guess "The enshittification of UPenn by the CEO of University of Phoenix" would work, but is no less wordy.
UPenn is a fantastic medial school. It would suck to see it turned into another pay-for-degree mill like University of Phoenix.
FWIW I also think banning legacy admissions is a good step forward. I think it would be reasonable to have 50% of admissions be academically selected and given first-refusal, while leaving the other 50% to being chosen by lot.
I haven't followed the UPenn drama closely, but does anyone know if the faculty or college senate, or any other component of shared governance, tried to support the president prior to her resignation? Failing to cancel Palestine Writes (in September!!) forming a basis for dismissal is utterly nuts.
If the board at my institution requested our president's resignation, I'm 100% sure that our shared governance mechanisms would defend him and demand justification.
I haven't followed it specifically but having just watched a university present resign under questionable circumstances, it's possible that there was already problems with her that made this the quickest/best resolution. Even if the actual given reason wasn't the strongest.
Or it was a way to oust a president they didn't like for less than legitimate reasons using the same methods.