Valin Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 National Review/The Corner George Leef July 12, 2017 Mitch Daniels was an excellent governor, keeping Indiana in the black and avoiding the ruinous spending and regulation that are dragging down many other states. After leaving office, he took over the presidency of Purdue University, which he has also been successfully managing. (One measure of that is the silence — we are not hearing about idiotic protests and craven administrative moves to pacify the SJW types at Purdue.) Now Daniels has done something really outside the norm for college presidents — he arranged a deal to purchase online, for-profit, Kaplan University. In today’s * Martin Center article, Jane Shaw examines the deal and its possible implications. One big result will be that students who pursue their degrees through the old Kaplan (for now called “NewU”) will be able to get undergraduate degrees for about half the cost that students who go to Purdue will face. How will that affect the traditional Purdue, especially the faculty? Nobody really knows. It seems, however, that the deal will probably cause some distress for Purdue faculty, judged by the reaction of the ** AAUP. Shaw notes that it has gone to DEFCON 5 over the deal, declaring that it must be stopped because it’s supposedly terrible to mix nonprofit and for-profit education. That’s utter baloney, but the AAUP is sure to pull out all the stops in trying to prevent NewU from getting off the ground. (Snip) _______________________________________________________________________________________________ * Purdue Shakes Up Academe (Not All Presidents Are as Innovative as Mitch Daniels) ** Purdue’s Kaplan Acquisition Angers Public Educators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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