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Academic Discussions => General Academic Discussion => Topic started by: revert79 on December 07, 2019, 10:03:31 AM

Title: edmit closure prediction scandal
Post by: revert79 on December 07, 2019, 10:03:31 AM
Hi--anybody have any inside info on this?

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/private-colleges-convinced-company-scuttle-release-list-projected-college-closures

https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Doomsday-List-of-Possible/247592

is there a wikileaksesque source that one can look to?  just (morbidly) curious...
Title: Re: edmit closure prediction scandal
Post by: polly_mer on December 07, 2019, 03:55:45 PM
We've been discussing that situation over on the Dire Financial Straits Thread,

irhack gives us the IHE article: https://thefora.org/index.php?topic=22.msg14477#msg14477
apl68 points to the CHE article: https://thefora.org/index.php?topic=22.msg14779#msg14779

Discussion takes off about https://thefora.org/index.php?topic=22.msg14866#msg14866.

Join us and click particularly on the Forbes list linked in recent days that names names.
Title: Re: edmit closure prediction scandal
Post by: revert79 on December 07, 2019, 07:01:49 PM
ooh!  Thanks Polly
Title: Re: edmit closure prediction scandal
Post by: polly_mer on December 08, 2019, 06:59:59 AM
For those wondering, I'm leaving this thread here because there's no reason anyone would be looking in the middle of a long-running thread for such a specific topic.