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I am in the military and a lot of other military members I know are enrolled in Liberty. Me being politically astute, I am aware of this fake Christian school and its self righteous leader.
What pisses me off is that this college is treated as nonprofit and benefits from taxpayer money via the GI Bill, military Tuition Assistance, and US Dept of Education programs. The latter being hypocritical seeing that conservatives are constantly against those programs.
This school has become an online behemoth that rivals Phoenix University. The first three classes required before getting into your real classes are religious classes. These credits do not transfer which means that a student is essentially stuck.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2018/05/02/jerry-falwells-liberty-university-profit-nonprofit-garb/
roscoeroscoe
(1,369 posts)Didn't know about this!
Moostache
(9,895 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)It is well past time to stop the tradition of giving them undue respect for no good reason beyond their religion...
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Both in academia and outside.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)IIRC, ORU merges on campus and online numbers to boast of its success.
I think Pat Robertson's Regent U does the same.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)remember the MN Rep who was a IRS attorney.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)When Jerry keeled over he was insured up to his eyeballs. They settled all their debt and were able to borrow at rates close to the seed money Rev. Moon provided them back at the beginning. They've added a fake ski slope and dorms that block out the horizon. THEN they got this online thing going.
The place is a diploma mill. But the point was to flood the market with their devotees/believers. It's worked. I run into Liberty grads all the time and I'm talking about people who were on campus.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)Seems like they are pushing out their grads to infiltrate all aspects of American government and business.
underpants
(182,279 posts)Remember Monica Goodling and her whiteboard of "good Republicans" during the W/Alberto Gonzales years?
http://archive.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school/
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a joke! Do any serious employers hire alums from effing Liberty University? You really have to be an idiot to even want to go there.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)And unfortunately a lot of military are getting these degrees.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online
With a hard sell to prospective students and huge amounts in taxpayer funding, Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed the evangelical institution into a behemoth.
By ALEC MacGILLIS/PROPUBLICA APRIL 17, 2018
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Well, I guess the religiously insane deserve an education too.
safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)Trump U. just haven't been caught yet.