ITT Tech is closing

Here's a different story about ITT

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/business/a-whistle-was-blown-on-itt-17-years-later-it-collapsed.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Feducation&action=click&contentCollection=education&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

 

Gretchen Morgenson slanted this just a wee bit.

Graves' lawsuit was about his compensation.

The $117 million was for five people over a period of 16 or 17 years. And that is compensation which includes benefits.

 

A footnote to the closing of ITT - they ran charter schools too.

https://www.the74million.org/article/itt-tech-isnt-just-a-college-scandal-it-also-ran-charter-schools-and-left-teens-scrambling

 

There are those who believe that Bill Clinton and scandal free don't belong in the same sentence.

 

I took 2 on campus courses at UOP, evening courses on the 5th floor of a very dated office building. My employer at the time offered very generous tuition reimbursement and the campus was walking distance from my office building. I highly doubt I would've attended UOP if not for these 2 factors (not my own money and campus location). At the time I was working on my B.S. L.A. At Excelsior and was utilizing UOP for a few requirements I wasn't able to test out of (Intro to effective written communications - English comp requirement and Cultural Diversity - upper level elective).

I thought the instructors were great, knowledgeable, and good at their job. The course material covered seemed to be good, no complaints here.

The thing that stands out most about my UOP experience would have to be the students. It was more than obvious to me that the majority of these students (kids for the most part) would've benefited more from the community college system. Roughly 50% the class didn't successfully complete the courses, in my 2 course experience.

 

I've always thought that UoP got a bad rap, at least academically. I used to teach for them (the pay stinks, but it's a good way to get your foot in the door of teaching), and the course materials & expectations were on par with every other RA school I've taught for. Faculty training and the in-house continuing education (both mandatory and optional) were top-notch, as was faculty support.

I can't speak for their advertising & recruiting practices, since they never really caught on around here (they had a branch campus in a suburb outside Boston that lasted but a few years), but I've never looked at someone with a UoP degree as having a lesser education.