--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> wrote: > > > > So much Blah blah. The only problem with this > > university is that it isn't going to have any students > > and they'll want the faculty to teach these > > nonexistent students for free. >
> I'm wondering if this is the death knell for MUM... > ******* It seems unlikely that the money for this project is going to happen within the foreseeable future, so MUM will continue -- the thinking being expressed on mou.org about the new school is just off-the-wall. For instance, it's being proposed that the 10,000 students get loans from Citibank before the school is actually built so that this $150 million in prepaid tuition could be the basis of the school's construction costs -- this ain't gonna happen. Also, in order to avoid having to go through the ordeal of accreditation for this new university, it would be declared a branch campus of MUM Fairfield, which will automatically transfer accreditation to the new school, in the unlikely event that it happens (and if it does, it will only be a small school for some time), so MUM will not be out of business (and most of that business is foreign students anyway, and the new school is for U.S. students). I think the most likely outcome is that the TMO will get a few concessions from local authorities and the state of KS for a token presence here in hopes that someday a big school, which would be good for the economy of KS, actually does appear in the weeds.
