(09-18-2013, 05:50 AM)jamesc1 Wrote: The cost and the time required for degrees is becoming so much of a burden that many just say NO to higher education. That's why it was and is important to give people the option of state sanctioned colleges. They weren't for everyone, BUT, they met the needs of many, especially adults long out of school.
When you squeeze out the competition you always make things costly and less adaptive to the requirements of many people.
It should always have been up to the people to choose between DETC/Regional/and state authorized schools. People vote with their money. If one form of education wins out so be it, but not the way this crap worked out, with people having a financial or ego interest trying to fix the outcome. They did, it worked out, and we have very high costs and little choice. Just how many older people want to spend 4-6 years to get a B.S. degree ONLINE. That's not DL that's the same as sitting in a class room for 6 years. Who does this remove from DL???? almost all older people. That's what the old model, as Bear defined it, yes, for once he got it right, was about. Many seniors will epend 5 to 10K and 6 to 12 months earning a base level/legal/moderately usable, degree program. They will not spend 30k and 6 years to earn a degree that is, in many cases, for self satisfaction/pride. A very good reason, in my view, to get any degree.
But we now have the gold-fish standard, and like this fish part, it often smells in 3 days of sun, and the damn things costs like the devil.
Oh well, I guess they won, but look at all the money the old folks would have paid for decent state approved degrees. Maybe, just maybe old man Bear might have got some of them bucks if he could have kept his damned mouth shut!!!!!!! Maybe the old crook just talked himself out of a lot of money. He should have remained a voice of moderation and reason, even if he was faking every word.
yep...that is really it in a nutshell james...bear hacked on these school's for one reason only...maybe two, but it stems from the same source..."JEALOUSY", pure and simple...if he couldn't make a bundle off these school's through co-ownership, or consulting, and steer it his way...he figured he would spitefully trash ALL state approved schools...these legal, valid schools, went from sound, alternative educational pursuits, to quackery and flim-flam overnight! Bear endorsed and championed PWU, CPU,Cal Coast and an assortment of other's...in fact, he had association's with these school's and the men who owned and operated them...Dr. Henteleff told me that "if Bear likes you he will say nice things about you in his books"...words to that effect...the implication was that if you were on "the out's" with Bear, he would trash you, just because he felt like it! For years he would detract Dr. Forte of PWU fame, an outstanding businessman and entrepeneur...by blithely stating how Dr. Forte opened the first topless bar in the city limits of San Fran...WHO CARES!...Bear is a "miserable old cocker". and the sycophant's he runs with are equally as pathetic...maybe moreso