IVC twice as good as Saddleback

Here’s a curious report that appeared in today’s OC Register:

Saddleback College reports surge in enrollment

Saddleback College officials are reporting a seven percent enrollment increase from last year – attributing the surge to state college cuts and the faltering economy….

7%, eh? Good for them.

What’s curious is that, though the article mentions that the SOCCCD includes IVC, it doesn't mention that, at Irvine Valley College, enrollments have increased much more.

Shitloads more.

If you go to the district Almanac, you’ll find that, at least as of mid-January, headcount is up 7.3% at Saddleback.

But it's up 14.4% at IVC.

Headcount shmedcount

—More importantly, FTES (full-time equivalent student) is up 8.0% at Saddleback.

But it's up 16.4% at IVC. 

OK, I'll say it. IVC is twice as good as Saddleback College. Nyah!

They don't even know how to spell 

"Library" at Saddleback College

Hey, there's no dang School of 

Micromanagement at Irvine Valley College.

We have standards!

IVC students are generally acknowledged to be

twice as attractive as Saddleback College students

Saddleback College has long been plagued with large vermin.

Meanwhile, vermin-free IVC has remained on the cutting edge of innovation and all manner of whiz-bangery

Saddleback College professors publish such tripe as Econo-Prof Howard Gensler's notoriously juvenile Avenger of Blood

IVC faculty, however, have organized the internationally acclaimed festival of helium known as "Blue and White Balloon Day."

Torture boy at Chapman

In this morning’s LA Times:

Bush policymaker escapes Berkeley's wrath

In Berkeley, city leaders branded him a war criminal and human rights activists put up a billboard to denounce him. But in suburban Orange County, Professor John Yoo—the primary architect of the Bush administration's policy on harsh interrogation techniques that many consider torture—has found relatively calmer waters.

Yoo is a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, on leave from his tenured post at UC Berkeley to teach foreign relations law.

Although a handful of protesters, one in a Statue of Liberty get-up and another in an orange Abu Ghraib jumpsuit and hood, demonstrated against Yoo on campus recently, law students said they appreciate the prestige and exposure he could bring the law school.

But a small group of local activists said they hope to stir up anger at the 14-year-old law school in the thick of conservative Orange County.

"Our aim is to get the man fired -- he has no business being in our community," said Pat Alviso, 56, of Huntington Beach, who heads the Orange County chapter of Military Families Speak Out. Her son is a Marine serving in Afghanistan who completed two tours in Iraq.

Chapman law school alumnus Michael Penn agrees: "I think it's a black eye to the school. . . . To me, he's a war criminal."

Yoo, a former Justice Department attorney, achieved notoriety by crafting memos -- later withdrawn by the department -- that narrowly defined torture and argued that Bush's authorization of controversial interrogation tactics against Al Qaeda did not violate the Geneva Conventions. The memos justified harsh treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, including the controversial waterboarding technique.
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"I think it's interesting to have him there," said Billy Essayli, a second-year law student who heads the campus California Republican Lawyers Assn. Still, Essayli conceded that he was surprised there wasn't a greater public outcry at Yoo's arrival in January.
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For his part, Yoo has stayed true to form since arriving at Chapman: Last month, he wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal criticizing President Obama, saying he had opened the door to future terrorist acts in the U.S....

And now, a word about distance ed, that wave of the future...

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the results of two surveys conducted by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges reveal widespread skepticism about the effectiveness of online education.


excerpt:

...online education doesn't translate into better learning outcomes, said respondents in the faculty survey. More than 10,000 faculty members at 67 public campuses responded to the survey.

While 30 percent of faculty members surveyed felt that online courses provided superior or equivalent learning outcomes when compared with face-to-face classes, 70 percent felt that learning outcomes were inferior...

... a majority of faculty members felt that institutions provided inadequate compensation for those taking on the additional responsibility of teaching online courses. And many respondents said that students needed more discipline before they could benefit from online instruction. Low retention rates among students and the lack of consideration of online teaching experience in tenure-and-promotion decisions were also cited as barriers to faculty interest in online teaching...

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