So I was watching the Fox animated show "The Family Guy" tonight (yeah, I know...but it's a guilty pleasure), and there was a scene with two construction guys sitting on a girder at a job site. "Hey, my son got into DeVry" said one construction worker. The second worker looks at the first guy and says "What did he have to do, hold the door open?" Ouch!
I love Family guy (and I don't even feel guilty about it) and I loved that joke! Although IIRC the exact quote might be closer to something like "What did he have to do to get in? Open the door?"
AH.. one of my favorite cartoons! I love the underlying messages - that DeVry one is just another one of those hilarious remarks
Drew Carey said something similar once on Whose Line Is It Anyway? -- "The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right, the points are like a degree from an online university!" Of course, this was several years ago. -=Steve=-
I wonder how many of the peanut gallery actually took classes at DeVry? Are their comments based on the schools course content or marketing image?
Either way, it was hilarious! Of course, the same could be said for any open-enrollment school (or community college, for that matter)...but still funny!
Here's the exact bit: Construction Worker #1: My son got into DeVry. Construction Worker #2: Oh, good. What'd he have to do, open the door? Construction Worker #1: (Sighs) Can't you let me have anything? ROTFLMAO!
It will be interesting as the internet expands where the networking scene is done via web 2.0 and we all become more interconnected each and every day, when will we see politicians such as Reps, Senators, Governors, or a Pres. with a degree from an online university or earned degree via distance? Are there any currently?
Perhaps Arnold Schwarzenegger "Schwarzenegger, who is Catholic, earned a bachelor of arts degree through the University of Wisconsin-Superior's extended degree program in 1979, and made several visits to the campus to complete the degree requirements - People - Brief Article National Catholic Reporter, Sept 5, 2003"
Distance education has been scorned and made fun of by lots of people . . . and since long before it was done online. Remember the "matchbook schools" -- especially the "Draw me" messages from the Famous Artists School. From most accounts, they did quite a good job, albeit with some hard-sell marketing once people inquired. But when I was doing my degree consulting service, I regularly heard from people who said, "But I don't want one of those matchbook schools" (or, sometimes,, "...one of those California schools." Just for the heck of it, I advertised Bear's Guide on matchbooks once. Bought something like 2 million matchbooks for about $2,000 -- every matchbook distributed in Maryland for two weeks, I think it was. Sold about 12 books, and couldn't read the tiny pencil-stubbed addresses on 3 or 4.
