They closed the program because the Director over the program left. They are searching for someone to replace him and the program will be restarted. if you look at online job sites and search Great Basin they have an ad out for someone to come and lead the program
> They closed the program because the Director over the program left. They are searching for someone to replace him and the program will be restarted.
If a college's football coach moves on they don't shut down the football program and advertise on their website for a new one. They dang well get on the horn and recruit the best coach they can find, paying him what they have to. The position remains vacant for practically no time at all because the football program makes money for the college.
One of the elements necessary for a program to be self sustaining is for it to have enough infrastructure that the loss of one person isn't catastrophic to the survival of the whole. If we had 1 or 2 programs with a few hundred enrollees instead of several programs with a few dozen each they may achieve such a self sustaining level.
I very much hope that Great Basin is able to get things restarted. But I fear that having once closed it will be fatal to their credibility.
> > They closed the program because the Director over the program left. They are searching for someone to replace him and the program will be restarted.
> If a college's football coach moves on they don't shut down the football program and advertise on their website for a new one. They dang well get on the horn and recruit the best coach they can find, paying him what they have to. The position remains vacant for practically no time at all because the football program makes money for the college.
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> One of the elements necessary for a program to be self sustaining is for it to have enough infrastructure that the loss of one person isn't catastrophic to the survival of the whole. If we had 1 or 2 programs with a few hundred enrollees instead of several programs with a few dozen each they may achieve such a self sustaining level.
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> I very much hope that Great Basin is able to get things restarted. But I fear that having once closed it will be fatal to their credibility.
The problem with that is that there are very few American Academics left with the credentials (I imagine a PHD) to fill the vacancy.
> The problem with that is that there are very few American Academics left with the credentials (I imagine a PHD) to fill the vacancy.
Yet another reason that we need for there to be just 2 or 3 on-line programs, healthy, instead of several programs, struggling to exist.
> > The problem with that is that there are very few American Academics left with the credentials (I imagine a PHD) to fill the vacancy.
> Yet another reason that we need for there to be just 2 or 3 on-line programs, healthy, instead of several programs, struggling to exist.
The problem as I see it boils down to the American definition of Surveying vs that of the rest of the World. So if somebody with some solid Cadastral Credentials could put something together to satisfy the National Legal Realm, why not let the rest of the World participate in the rest?
BTW how many full blown Online Programs are there? Metro State got watered down.