John H. Pryor

Researcher, critical thinker, writer, and speaker on innovation and trends in higher education.

[John H. Pryor @john_h_pryor]

@GoldieStandard Seems like Wells trustees handled that pretty poorly. They had economic trouble for years but abruptly closed at a time when students and faculty (and the town) were really behind the 8 ball instead of giving people enough time to adequately plan for the closure.

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@frank_anomaly @sewellchan @latimes Cancelled mine after 19 years

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@byJoshMoody Just got this in my inbox as "breaking news" from @insidehighered and I really wish they would reconsider what breaking news is.

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@rtoutkou I don't believe he did get an MBA. He has a BS from Wharton.

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@rtoutkou Do they go up biggly?

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@Variety Bye Bob

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@taylor_odle The other side of this is that college president's think everyone knows about discounting. I found this a few years ago when I did a survey for @chronicle with presidents. They had no idea the high sticker price was a barrier. But tuition is often the first thing people look at

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@latimes Come on people movers, just get it together and finish this!

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@SpencrGreenberg Did you mean that someone with an IQ of 100 wrote this question and that is why it doesn't make sense?

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@jaketapper Research tells us that what is most important about college is what you do when you are there, not so much where you go. Also students going to their 2nd, 3rd, etc choice college are just as satisfied as the 1st choice attendees IF they get involved in their college experience

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@etkeld But what if they overcome odds and work hard to achieve their dreams after reading that negative news article?

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@EricStoller @insidehighered I always find these comparisons interesting as they try to portray a shocking mismatch. But is it? What is often overlooked is the employer's experience with graduates. Is the rating based on immediate supervision of a recent graduate? Or just an article they read?

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@latimes If you have to lay off a hundred people to stay in business, maybe the problem is you and you didn't know how to run a paper? #latimes

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@Apple are you thinking that the longest non stop flight in the world doesn't have power available in every seat like most planes do these days?

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@alexsyse They conveniently forget to account for tuition discounting, which roughly puts that figure at half that amount.

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@jrkeup @insidehighered Good piece with good points. Faculty are not trained to do this and we need to be more effective at communicating to students about the proper resources that are there for them. Similarly with career services. We offer so much in that area and it is not used.

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@Mompreneur_of_3 This would be relevant if the poll was only based on land lines, which it is not.

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@jrkeup It was a wake up call doing some cognitive interviewing around sense of community questions on a survey with an urban serving institution. Students: "what community do you mean?" So many interlocking different communities. We had to rephrase.

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@rtoutkou Time to get the band back together