Calbright College: When Good Ideas Don’t Work
It is more than a little ironic that part of Gov. Brown’s motivation for starting Calbright College was to provide an alternative to for-profit vocational schools in California. Ironic, because one thing that career colleges almost always do better than public institutions, including Calbright, is student support, particularly as it relates to career services.
Even Harvard Has to Care about the Student Value Proposition – Or Not
What’s really interesting about Harvard’s decision is that rather than explore how they might create a better value proposition for undergraduate education students, Harvard being Harvard, with the help of a $40M donation, shifted the cost to external donors and moved the program to the graduate level, where it will be part of a fifth-year program largely funded by an external source rather than by student-customers.