FYI...https://uaw.org/7steps/
SNHU as a risky investment for students
Imagine what happens if there is more oversight for programs that don't create returns for the students. ... — read more
Any humans still at SNHU?
https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/09/wealth-and-want-part-4-robocolleges-and.html
SNHU ITS layoff
SNHU ITS let go 36 plus yesterday with a large group of contractors next on the chopping block. no surpise here, 7 + years to implement Banner tells the story of the mess the ITS organization is. ITS management(BC,CF)is lost and lacks the... — read more
SNHU Ad Spend
"For example, we mentioned that SNHU spent $144 million on marketing in 2019. For the academic year 2020–2021, the school had roughly 145,000 enrolled students — about 10,000 more than the prior year. Based on these figures, we can estimate that SNHU... — read more
SNHU and "a culture of love..."
Do you feel loved? "Of course people matter, but Paul writes about loving his team, creating a culture of love to help students succeed and putting people first. These sections of the book directly inspired the pillars of my presidential platform... — read more
Robocollege Update
https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/02/robocollege-update.html
Outgoing SNHU president: AI means universities must change ‘dramatically’
"The president and CEO of Southern New Hampshire University, who will step down at the end of June, led SNHU through major growth in his two decades at the helm. The nonprofit school, which had about 2,500 students when LeBlanc arrived in 2003, now... — read more
SNHU, Guild (Education), and AI
Sounds like an unholy alliance to downsize the US workforce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfiVOpQXa5Y
I hear you are going through layoffs
Is that true?
SNHU and the Evolution of Robocolleges
https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2023/05/robocolleges-artificial-intelligence.html
SNHU Using Indian Academic Labor
https://www.edifyonline.com/
The Poor Pay More at SNHU?
"At SNHU, the lowest-income students paid between $5,000 and $10,000 more than the highest-income students in every year from 2012-13 to 2019-20. Students in the lowest-income quintile paid $22,903 in net price in 2020-21 compared to the $22,741 that... — read more
Southern New Hampshire University has become America's largest "robocollege"
131 F/T instructors for 145,533 students https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2021/07/the-growth-of-robot-colleges.html https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=southern+new+hampshire&s=all&id=183026
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. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2540743739?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
Cutting inefficiencies
What's to cut? https://www.educationdive.com/news/president-speaks-how-southern-new-hampshire-is-getting-to-10k-tuition-per/588639/
The College Dream is Over
https://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-college-dream-is-over-gary-roth.html
The Higher Education Assembly Line
Southern New Hampshire University has 164 full-time instructors for 104,000 students. According to Maduakolam Ireh, "scientific management (in the 19th century and beyond) eliminated the need for skilled labor by delegating each employee one... — read more
Will Ashford University conversion to a state university mean more competition for SNHU?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/college-meltdown-who-right-mind-would-buy-ashford-dahn-shaulis/
Prey on this..
Ramy B., Dee-1 and others... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/music-videos-college-meltdown-dahn-shaulis/
18 percent of tuition spent on instruction
Millions spent on advertising, little spent on (expendable) instructors. https://tcf.org/content/report/much-education-students-getting-tuition-dollar/?agreed=1&agreed=1 Has anyone tried to form a union?
Not sustainable
How long can SNHU continue down this road? It's not much than University of Phoenix with a lower price tag?... — read more
Worst School for Faculty
This school is awful. If you are a faculty member that cares about education don't work here. All they care about is passing the students and if you don't pass the students, you get "does not meet expectations" on your review. You need to have a... — read more
Revenue downturn at private non-profit colleges.
Southern New Hampshire University is not alone in facing revenue challenges. NCES numbers are here. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/private-college-revenues-us-meltdown-dahn-shaulis/
Is SNHU like Liberty?
Will SNHU face the same scrutiny that Liberty has? https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/how-jerry-falwell-jr-transformed-liberty-university-into-a-wildly-profitable-online-empire/
More Layoffs at SNHU
Source below - The university lays off dozens of remote, part-time staffers (with plans to hire full-timers) as part of a reorganization process ahead of projected enrollment growth for its competency-based division.:... — read more
Inside Higher Education: SNHU cuts
"Southern New Hampshire University is restructuring its work force partnerships division, College for America, to prepare for a massive influx of new students in competency-based education programs. Part of that restructuring means moving its student... — read more
Aggressive advertising campaign
Smells of for-profit motives, we'll see what happens next but I'd be very careful with any school that aggressively advertises like SNHU does right now - we've seen many for-profit school students enroll and rack up massive debt without being able to... — read more