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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.[/quote]

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DYK how many places run these programs? Columbia has one in general studies, believe same @ Penn. So many schools have them. Heck, does USDA still run an extension school? That said, they are extension programs.[/quote]

Harvard’s extension school is over 100 years old and was created for the working people in Boston who couldn’t go to college during the day.  They are all taught by Harvard professors

plenty of universities have these programs. Yale has a physicians assistant Program at night separate from the school working with themYale Medical school. Online classes and on-site requirements.

Columbia has night school classes in certain degrees where students go at their own pace. Stanford,Penn, Duke, Brown, Northwestern and many many more.

What is wrong with catering to non-traditional students who might want a change in career or to get a better job but can’t spend all day at school with 18 year olds.

Universities are in the business of education.   It’s exactly what they’re doing.

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There are no scholarships... It's a cash grab [/quote]

Nearly all colleges offer this kind of education.

For which colleges that offer it is it a "cash grab", and for which is it a reasonable offer?

Please answer.  But I know you won't.[/quote]

What kind of gotcha is this?

No scholarships+ high cost is cash grab.

Make the degree free or cheap. This isn't complicated. Otherwise it's a cash grab.

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Answer the damned question.  Nearly all colleges offer this.  For which ones is it a cash grab?  All of them?

For the record HES offers financial aid and its tuition is half Harvard’s.
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All of them and the point is, it's not making it accessible to more people.

Yes, a lot of online degrees are cash grabs, not only Harvard. Harvard should be running a better program. [/quote]

Your post makes no sense.  Are you an eliteist who thinks schools should not offer classes to the general public?

Did you see the post explaining HES is over 100 years old?

Did you see the post stating they give financial aid and the tuition is half to begin with?

This is an odd bee to have stuck in your bonnet.[/quote]
You should look at the history of the school. The will of the person who founded it said that no course should cost more than 2 bushels of wheat. That would be around 20 dollars in today's money. (Look up the price of two bushels of wheat. Suppose you adjusted to a crazy extent, you're still not getting past 200 Dollars)

For most of the history of HES, there was  a sliding scare for low income so that everyone could take classes.

At 40k and no sliding scale or scholarships (and yes, I'm sure there's financial aid, but it's not transparent at all), it's out of reach for most people. [/quote]

Bushels of wheat?

That’s your argument?

You’re not serious.  [/quote]

The point is, as PP said, it's a cash grab now. In the past, it was a charity. [/quote]

Harvard has an endowment that requires thousands of people to manage. It owns property throughout Boston.[/quote]

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