Scathingly long article on Jane Sanders total fuck up of Burlington College

[Sheepshank]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/25/costly-campus-and-erratic-enrollment-strategies-have-vermont-college-edge

The college is 15 or so students away from its fall 2014 enrollment goal of 180 students. That shortfall -- the equivalent of a much larger enrollment deficit for a larger institution -- translates into roughly $400,000 that the college will have to strip from its budget, Burlington College President Christine Plunkett said. “We’re hoping not to cut any positions, but we’ll absolutely be looking at benefits,” she said. “That’s a hard pill for people to swallow."

$10,000,000+ in debt and hundreds of thousands in additional penalties and taxes for 200 ish students? $27,000 annual tuition for woodworking? OMFG.

Enrollment shrinking, lies to obtain the loans, inefficient, incompetent decisions, irresponsible mismanagement...and she does taxes too!!! Or maybe not.

[Demsrule86]

1. Jane

could find herself in Camp Fed...wouldn't that be ironic.

[beachbumbob]

2. No wonder Jane won't answer questions...

What mismanagement...how much did Burlington had to pay Jane to leave??? Still didn't save them...no wonder no tax returns....Bernie and trump have much in common...keep America in the dark

[auntpurl]

3. Sincere question: is that a typo? 10 MILLION dollars?

I haven't really followed this story bc I tend to think the families of candidates should be largely left alone, but...that is a LOT of money if true. That points to serious incompetence.

[Sheepshank]

6. no typo, it was $10,000,000 (Ten million dollars)

Jane has been serving on the Sanders campaign, receives payment from the campaign and is a regular media spokesperson. On one of the other articles I'd read, they also mentioned Bernie in the Burlington College scandal.

[immoderate]

4. "Scathingly long?"

Malapropiety?

--imm

[Sheepshank]

7. scathing & long..... better.

although the scathing language did go on for a very long time too.

[CrowCityDem]

5. Jane better watch out. She might join Trump as the fraudsters found guilty in court....

[Maru Kitteh]

18. They can discuss taxes together

[obamanut2012]

8. k&R

[GreatGazoo]

9. They bought land and buildings for $10 mil, sold part of it for $7.5 mil

so that ISN'T "$10 mil in debt"

MATH!

No wonder you don't see any problems for Hillary, you are too partisan to sort out simple facts and math.

See you in Philly!

[azurnoir]

14. from the same camp that insists Hillary only needs 71 more pledged delegates to win

#HillaryMath oops now it's 67 pledged delegates

[Fresh_Start]

10. I'm a bit stunned by a college degree in woodworking

maybe a community college certificate but a college degree?

[msanthrope]

13. a program instituted by Sanders, run by her daughter and later dropped by the college.

$900,000 later

[oasis]

19. A gig for Jane's daughter runs up a $900,000 tab?

[msanthrope]

20. Yes. nt

[Starry Messenger]

11. k&r

[Dem2]

12. Leave the spouses out of this

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I'm not interested in attacking Jane or Bill, please let them be.

[Nye Bevan]

15. Yep. Not really fair to attack Bernie for his wife's mismanagement of the college.

Based on his recent appearances Jane seems to be keeping a much lower profile in his campaign of late, which is probably wise.

[frylock]

16. Nobody cares.

Am I doing it right?

[cherokeeprogressive]

22. No criminal intent. nt

[frylock]

24. 3 million more votes!!1

[cherokeeprogressive]

29. That's YUUUUUGE!1

[nc4bo]

17. Oh so Jane made all the decisions all by herself. No Board of Trustees?

No accountants or other financial advisors either?

Jane is all powerful.

[Recursion]

21. In fairness, this model of college has been dying for decades

Nobody's really found a way to make the finances work for colleges focusing on non-traditional students (other than the exploitative vultures like DeVry). Larger cities can sometimes make them work (c.f. Strayer in DC) particularly if they are extension programs of larger traditional universities (think GMU also in DC), but it's really hard and it never "works" quite as well as people want it to.

That said, kicking Mrs. Sanders at this point seems a little classless. The college was in a bad position, and she didn't perform a miracle. Let it go at that.

[NCTraveler]

23. We dodged a bullet.

Time to move on.

[Avalux]

30. Really? The Clintons are master grifters. I only hope Hillary can reform herself QUICK.

If I'm forced to vote for her I sure as hell will hold her feet to the fire. Not ready for 4 years of bullshit.

[MariaThinks]

26. unsettling

[Cobalt Violet]

27. What is she running for?

Last I check she's not running for anything. So who the fuck cares.

[JackRiddler]

28. Adverbs also modify adjectives you know.

So is it scathingly long or scathing and long?