(09-11-2021 10:12 AM)NDSUGopher Wrote:  

(09-10-2021 09:30 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  

(09-10-2021 09:14 PM)SMUfan Wrote:  

(09-10-2021 08:35 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-10-2021 08:08 PM)JMU2004 Wrote:  Liberty got rich off of selling online degrees on the back of federal student loans. Other schools know that…they’re the payday loan sharks of higher education. It’s how’s they funded all those shiny facilities after being broke in 2007.

That, more than anything else, is why schools are reluctant to associate with Liberty. Add in the Falwell mess (Sr and Jr), the political battles they so happily embrace, and it’s a very hard sell.

Its that more than the religious stuff or Falwell. They are a very different type of institution.

So they can't be in a sports conference because they are "different"? What does that mean?

It’s spelled out above, and it has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with grift on a non profit tag.

You mean like Purdue Global Online? Or ASU Online? There was a time when public universities might have had the moral high ground. But that time is long gone. Most public universities are following a business model and are trying to make profits, even if it is called something else for accounting purposes.

You’re right that public and private universities lost the moral high ground on online programs. My alma mater is absolutely fleecing people with overpriced grad programs that are entirely run by a third part for-profit with Penn’s name attached to it. However, the academic issues at Liberty go beyond online. They break too many institutional norms. BYU is conservative and Christian but institutionally and administratively it looks like other R2s.