Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Monroe is an exciting and vibrant place to learn

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19 comments:

Anonymous said...

To be a credible and relevant institution, Monroe in St. Lucia must offer such courses as Operations Management, Risk Management, International Organizational Behavior, and Management Science.

When it does this, I will believe that this college to be a genuine partner in our development.

Until and unless it offers those courses, it remains little more than just another one of those paper mills.

June 8, 2011 at 7:10 AM
Anonymous said...

Monroe College is obviously a notch above other colleges in the region based on the information given. We need to enroll more of students at this university. I was just informed this week that Monroe College ranked 10th Internationally for graduating the largest number of minority postgrads. It's good to know that we have a reputable school in our country, and not one trying to seek accreditation. I feel better as a St. Lucian to know that the international educational community sees value in investing in St. Lucia.

June 8, 2011 at 1:16 PM
Anonymous said...

Monroe may be better serving St. Lucia a lot better than UWI is, already.

However, it too, has a long way to go to produce the kinds of graduates, and not just the numbers that will economically and developmentally transform St. Lucia economically and socially.

Number 2 hinted at a very interesting point too. Emphatically, St. Lucia will be best served economically and developmentally, by inviting WITH VERY GENEROUS INCENTIVES, top notch universities to set up campuses here.

We, as a late starter in the education industry, should therefore focus on quality rather than quantity, or just mere numbers that those three universities, the UWI Trinidad, the UWI Jamaica, and the UWI Barbados have come to represent.

Their output numbers per capita might look good on paper, and help their HDI ranking. However, this might do little for their economic and developmental efforts.

June 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Not sure about St. Lucia, but in America Monroe College is a joke. Its Student Loan Default Rates are among the highest in the Country.
30%+ of their students never pay the the U.S.Government back.

June 9, 2011 at 4:10 PM
Anonymous said...

A staggering 23.1 percent of 2,800 students who either graduated or dropped out of Bronx-based, family-owned Monroe College since 2007 have defaulted on millions of dollars worth of government-backed loans, putting taxpayers on the hook.
That default rate is nearly seven times the 3.6 percent at private Fordham University in The Bronx and nearly four times the 6 percent default rate at CUNY's Lehman College, new federal data show.
For-profit Monroe, launched in 1933 as a business school, pulls in $90 million a year in tuition, mostly from taxpayer-backed federal loans and state and federal grants given to 99 percent of its students.

President Stephen Jerome is the son of co-founder Harry Jerome. Stephen's son Marc has served as executive VP, and wife Leslie as alumni director.
The college, which has another campus in New Rochelle and a satellite campus on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, spends about $3 million a year on marketing.
Monroe's Bronx campus, on Jerome Avenue in Fordham, serves poorer students who struggle to pay back the money they borrow for its $11,744 a year in tuition and fees, college officials say.
"Monroe is located in one of the poorest ZIP codes in the area, and students are often the first in the family going to college," Anthony Allen, vice president of the Bronx campus, said of the 649 who defaulted on loans since 2007.
He predicted the default rates will soon drop as the economy improves.
But frustration led 27-year-old Trina Thompson, who got a bachelor's degree from Monroe in information technology, to file a lawsuit last year to get back the $70,000 she paid in tuition. She could not find a job, and blamed the career office, saying it had "not tried hard enough to help me."
The suit is pending.

susan.edelman@nypost.com

June 9, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Anonymous said...

The reason no one pays the loan back. Watered down degree. Made easy so you can finish and they can get paid. By time you realize you didn't learn anything and no one will hire you. TOO LATE.

June 9, 2011 at 4:18 PM
Anonymous said...

Lynchburg College will here soon. A real school so hold on to your money !

June 9, 2011 at 4:23 PM
Anonymous said...

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June 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM
Anonymous said...

Ha! The college wars!

I would rely greatly on commentary that sheds light on the quality of the graduates from the college, rather than on the inability of the students to pay back their loans. That the zip code has some relation to this is important.

However, Monroe college in the jobless recovery of the US, is not the only college in the US facing this student repayment problem.

St. Lucia's education policy at the secondary level reflects the symptoms evident at Monroe.

With so-called 'free education', we process students without educating them for the types of workforce skills required to make them employable today. It is still education for education sake resulting in frustrated youth. Dr. Anthony should remember this.

Now, the idiots that make up the cabinet of the UWP government, like their principal advisor Juke Bois, will have some difficulty understanding any of this. They will tell you that you can become PM in St. Lucia with just a primary school level of education of you can go to PM finishing school in a US jail cell.

June 9, 2011 at 7:31 PM
Anonymous said...

St. Lucians be warned that Lynchburg college is not better than Monroe college.

Information about universities and colleges are at your fingertips-the computer. Lynchburg college is barely recognized in the US as a top ranking school. I was educated in the US,and I am quite familiar with the top ranking schools-Lynchburg college is definitely not one of them. Monroe college has been identified as doing good work in graduating minority students.

The issue of loan payment is a problem across universities especially in those hard times.

Let's be careful that we do not push out any of the offshore schools in St.Lucia, which is helping to curb unemployment and build on our revenue base. Our primary goal is to ensure that they are providing quality education to the people.

I have heard a great deal about Monroe so I decided to do a little research on the school. Any well-intentioned person will experience a jaw-dropping experience when they are faced with the facts about the school. My findings reveal that Monroe college employs some of the very best graduates from UWI and PhD's from top ranking universities in the US, Canada and England.

I now feel compelled to say that we need to be careful what we say about Monroe college especially if we are ignorant about the facts. Like myself, I highly recommend that persons visit the campus and not depend on hearsay.

I welcome any school including Lynchburg college if like Monroe college it can help develop our human capital, decrease unemployment and contribute to our GDP.

June 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM
Anonymous said...

#10, that was a breath of fresh air.

We must urge the school to do more especially in the content areas. More quality schools should be encouraged in St. Lucia as the blogger above said.

June 10, 2011 at 7:43 AM
Anonymous said...

#10, that was a breath of fresh air.

We must urge the school to do more especially in the content areas. More quality schools should be encouraged in St. Lucia as the blogger above said.

June 10, 2011 at 7:43 AM
Anonymous said...

Why would Lynchburg College and monroe be mentioned in the same sentence. Lynchburg is a proud selective college. Monroe would let anyone in, just make that monthly payment.

June 10, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Anonymous said...

Lynchburg College was the first institution in the United States to train nuclear physicists and engineers. Monroe college just got accredited in 1990.

June 10, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Anonymous said...

that school is extra convenient. not too many PHDs teaching either and all part-time.

June 10, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Anonymous said...

Im looking into this school.Is it worth all that money ?

June 11, 2011 at 9:58 AM
Anonymous said...

“The cost of education is important. That’s why Monroe College is committed to keeping tuition at a level students can afford”

Lies ! Tuition going up automatically every year ! books too ! And too many issues with my transfer credits.

And THTI.. bringing everyone and anyone on our campus.

June 13, 2011 at 4:42 AM
Anonymous said...

So wait, monroe students have a history of not paying back student loans ? We should of looked into this before our government and SLDP started giving out “guaranteed” THTI student loans .

Millions in St Lucian tax dollars given out, with no follow-up .

Are THTI students getting jobs like Monroe promised, are the loans being paid back ?

We need to know whats going on right now, IN THIS ELECTION YEAR !

Monroe made too many promises and gave out false hope to St Lucian youth.

June 13, 2011 at 6:29 AM
Anonymous said...

All I hear is Monroe College 8000 students, graduated hundreds of thousands of people. Yet, not one "notable alumni". Since 1933 Gasa, !
If you take a stats class, you know something wrong with this.

Oh wait I forgot the internationally famous Trina Thompson. LOL

June 13, 2011 at 6:52 AM

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