"The failure of University of Phoenix (UoPX) is more than a dark moment in higher education history. It should act as a lesson learned in the higher ed business. Executives at 2U, Guild Education, Coursera, Liberty University, Chegg, Academic... — read more
What happens to all the Liberty University students with insurmountable debt?
They end up as lifelong customers of Maximus. https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2022/01/maximus-student-loan-debt-and-poverty.html
Former Liberty employee, who handled s-x discrimination and harassment, sues school
Court documents are included... https://wset.com/news/abc13-investigates/former-liberty-university-employee-valarie-dufort-s-x-discrimination-harassment-lawsuit-title-xii-lynchburg-virginia
“The Liberty Way”: How Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students’ Reports of Se-ual Assaults
... — read more
Video shows Liberty University has a soul
Just when I thought Liberty University was a failed school, I see this genius. Yes, there are students and faculty at LU who have hearts, souls, and minds despite some wicked leadership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2igL3GXxxY
Liberty University's Great Experiment
So far, Liberty University has gained in enrollment during the Covid pandemic as the institution has defied mainstream policy regarding vaccinations, masks, or social distancing. The Great Experiment continues today with a football game and a packed... — read more
The Results Are In: Liberty At the Bottom of the Barrel
2021 Washington Monthly results...ranked 391st out of 391. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021college-guide/national
And now there's the Delta Variant
Let's see how far anti-intellectualism will get Liberty. https://www.liberty.edu/champion/2021/02/opinion-americans-should-stay-avoid-getting-the-covid-19-vaccine/
Liberty and the Delta Variant
How many will get sick at Liberty University this fall? Does LU even know how many of their students are fully vaccinated? https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/considerations-another-uncertain-semester
Former Diversity Administrator Sues Liberty
"A former diversity administrator at Liberty University in Virginia has sued the evangelical Christian institution for $8 million, saying his firing violated the Civil Rights Act and the Virginia Human Rights Act, Religion News Service... — read more
Debt Sentence
Student loan default is a traumatic, stigmatizing experience. Because of that, many working people keep the pain of their student loan problems to themselves. C https://www.proquest.com/docview/2540743739?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
“I Suppressed So Much of My Humanity in Being Here”
"What it’s like to be black at Liberty University." https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/liberty-university-black-students-faculty.html
Falkirk Insititute
Bill Montgomery would have been proud, if he hadn't succumbed from Covid. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/30/liberty-universitys-falkirk-think-tank-pushed-boundaries-political-messaging
The College Dream is Over
https://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-college-dream-is-over-gary-roth.html
"Edugrift"
"While it is true that GCU and Liberty have large campus enrollment, that reality was built on backbreaking debt laden online subprime degrees. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of them. The vast majority of which are useless, except for adding to... — read more
JFJ gets $10.5 million golden parachute
Since there was no wrongdoing? https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/us/jerry-falwell-jr-resignation-payment/index.html
He likes to watch?
Of course it's just more fake news, right? https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/
More Fallout from JFJ
"Questions are being raised about the propriety of Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s use of a yacht owned by NASCAR mogul Rick Hendrick for multiple family... — read more
JFJ
What was JFJ thinking? https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/jerry-falwell-jr-failed-institutionalist/
Is Liberty University becoming an all-white school?
or just white supremacist? https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/06/08/liberty-falwell-blackface-tweet/
A Chronicle Interview with JFJ
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Unmasked-Unapologetic-and/248816?key=LwO6j3K0mIGHYkT3aRWpxO9AqoTfLA4pCgAIW7D731r52EcYWFtIuTWYMe-t_gSHak90QVFUUFJaVlc2Mm95ZjY3UzZLa3lRMGdoTGNyZ3VyNlpncUZVTUZLZw
Crash
With the possibility of 30 percent unemployment... https://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2019/02/workers-expose-subprime-college-crash.html
Liberty University rival Grand Canyon University facing shareholder lawsuits
"Citron was shocked and immediately submitted a FOIA, through which we received 870 pages of supporting documentation that ledtothe obvious conclusion that LOPE is in clear violation of SEC rule 10b-5 as they use the private university to dump... — read more
Falkirk Think Tank
" The goal of the new organization, Kirk told the Washington Examiner Saturday, is to “play offense” against both leftists and the dilution of Judeo-Christian principles in the Bible and Constitution in their quest to build support for a larger... — read more
Is Liberty k--ling off Christian Colleges?
Another one bites the dust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Christian_University
"...Trump’s Favorite College President, Pioneered the Scam Non-Profit College"
https://www.republicreport.org/2019/falwell-trumps-favorite-college-president-pioneered-the-scam-non-profit-college/
Coup?
"...Liberty University's president, told The Hill and other news outlets on Tuesday that he is asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe what he said is a "criminal" campaign and "attempted coup" waged by former university board members and... — read more
Falwell blasted Liberty student as 'r----ded,' police chief as 'half-wit' in emails
"In emails to his colleagues over the years, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr has denigrated students and staff at the Christian university he runs, referring to one student as “emotionally imbalanced and physically r—ded” and calling... — read more
Liberty may regret this
Giving charlatan Charlie Kirk an honorary doctorate? They might have been better giving Richard Nixon one posthumously... — read more
Words to prey on...
and to understand... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/music-videos-college-meltdown-dahn-shaulis/
Cuts
"A dozen faculty members at Liberty University’s Rawlings School of Divinity learned at the end of May they would not have their contracts renewed, representing significant cuts to the on-the-ground instructional work force of the Christian... — read more
Pentagon contracts
"Falwell has used Liberty-owned Freedom Aviation for personal, business, and political travel. Now it’s selling jet fuel to the Pentagon."... — read more
Liberty scavenging from Argosy crash
Lots of competition. Includes Colorado Christian University. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/YhXttE3
Workers Expose Subprime College Crash in Real Time at TheLayoff.com
"Other pages to watch the larger college meltdown include student loan servicers such as Navient, Sallie Mae, and Nelnet, private colleges such as Liberty University, internet lead generators such as QuinStreet and public universities such as... — read more
Liberty University is standing by its chief information officer despite reports that he accepted cash to rig online polls for Donald Trump.
"Despite reports that John Gauger, the CIO, accepted cash to rig online polls for Trump before he became president, university administrators are standing by Gauger and ignoring questions about the appropriateness of an employee promoting the... — read more
Liberty University CIO and Trump Disinformation Campaign
"According to WSJ, the man Michael Cohen paid with Trump money to rig polls and depict him as a s-x symbol, with money stuffed in a WalMart bag mind you, is "chief information officer at Liberty University in Virginia"... — read more
Liberty University competitor Western Governors University, has been shortchanging students.
"The department’s Office of Inspector General found in 2017 that Western Governors University, which enrolls more than 83,000 students, failed to meet federal requirements for the interaction between faculty members and students. The audit said the... — read more
Co-sponsoring Turning Point USA Young Black Leadership Summit
Turning Point USA’s Young Black Leadership Summit is a conference for young, conservative blacks between the ages of 15 and 35. YBLS 2018 will be hosted October 25-28, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Throughout the Summit, attendees will hear from some of... — read more
Ranked worse than University of Phoenix
UoPX is rated 265. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018college-guide?ranking=2018-rankings-national-universities