(09-11-2021 12:36 PM)LostInSpace Wrote:  

(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:  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.

And that is a fair assessment. BYU tries to be like the rest for the most part, and Liberty does go its own way sometimes.

This for profit, profit sharing arrangement that all of these online program management companies is a sneaky way to do business. All of the risk is on the school and their name, while a behind the scenes entity gets tons of money with out having to mess with actually being a school.