Nosestretcher alert: Kansas State launches global campus

People will say anything with a straight face to keep their jobs, I guess.

Cheerleader-in-chief Kirk Shultz gushed that Kansas State now has a 4th campus! The K-State Global Campus.

hockey.team.apr.14Instead of embracing massive open on-line courses (MOOCs), Kansas State rebranded distance education as the global campus.

It’s the rise of the PR flunkies, and the addiction to distance ed fees at $2,000 a course.

It’s a racket.

Church, mob, university, everyone pays a tax, but this is ridiculous.

Hilarious, except I still pay Kansas taxes that go to support this crap.

I offered to develop MOOCs for food safety, arguing that safety was global, not isolated to some town in Kansas.

I got fired for not being on campus; for being global.

I had a graduate student develop a restaurant inspection disclosure system for New Zealand. I had another graduate student evaluate food training systems in Winnipeg, Manitoba (that’s in Canada).

For now, this is my classroom; far more rewarding (upper right).

Universities can be silly places.

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