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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][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]

The extension school is not an online degree program--it's a longstanding continuing/community education program.  The actual grad schools at Harvard have their own reputable and strong on-line programs.  The extension school is not part of that.[/quote]

HES website says his masters was all online, except for one 2 week course.[/quote]

Aren't you guys supposed to be all about equity? Most people can't drop their lives for a on-campus masters.[/quote]

Indeed. DCUMers while theoretically pining for a class-less society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige. [/quote]

Is this Chris? Why are you plagiarizing an Orwell line and trying to pass it off as your own with a DCUM edit?[/quote]

We know who the plagiarizers are... where's your hero now to take credit for other's work?[/quote]

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