College "pop up" ads

I find it to be cheapening of the institution as well.

I was disapointed to see Strayer University doing so, as the institution is over 125 years old, and has some very good programs. I think that the University's administration though has become more interested in enrollments as of late, and have upped the need for advertising online.

 

Yes, but....

Strayer has been in the degree-granting business only since the 1980's. Until then, it was a technical school. It is very much a new business, not a venerable old university.

 

Lots of companies necessarily use R&D to remain competitive, but it all goes back to the same old question if the students sake is being better represented in the profit or non-profit.edu?
Heck why doesn't UOP pull out all the stops and and have a girly brass pole twirler with UOP across a band-aid sized thong bikini pop up on the screen? Afterall, they are part of a corporation and sex sells!
Gavin

 

I might have stuck around for that!

 

I did not know that! They often advertise too that they've been around for over a century, in fact a representative, whom comes to my office often uses that as a marketing ploy.

Interesting...

 

Looks like I overstated it a bit. They were first approved to offer bachelor's degrees in 1969. But they weren't accredited by Middle States until 1981, which is what I was going by. There history:

History of Strayer U.

 

Some state schools collect a bit more in tuition than the percentages mentioned. Title IV money, lottery scholarships, etc. also skew the numbers just a tad. But also remember, state schools offer athletic programs and receive monies from sources that private schools and proprietary schools eschew or just simply do not offer (UoP doesn't have a football team playing to 105,000 every Saturday with concession and souveneir sales).

Having worked at state schools, private schools, and "proprietary" colleges, there can at times not be one whit of difference between the three in terms of marketing, attempts at market share, etc.

Rich is correct in that UoP and others like it simply strive to grant degrees and not pioneer new research or open new doors. But the same can be said of B&M state schools, too. And, let's remember that the business world is where most of the pioneering research happens - in the day-to-day operation of the firm and the economic ramifications of the market. So the world doesn't revolve around academia..but academia owes it to us in the business world to do more than validate what we already know.

 

I couldn't agree more. Mozilla is awesome. It makes no sense, NO SENSE WHATSOEVER, to use MSIE as the default browser. Ocassionally I see an application that requires MIE (usually video clips or audio-related sites) but that's about it. You also have to use MIE for Windows patches and upgrades. Other than that, I avoid it like the plague. Almost all of those pop-ups exploit some flaw in MIE to get to the browser. Nowadays, my computer is much faster, has almost no adware download attempts, and runs like a fine Swiss watch. It's like a car tuneup and oil change after you've driven 250,000 miles without doing either. I also feel much better knowing that it's much less likely somebody will illegally access my machine. Never again MIE. Never, never, never.