Yeah definitely not a good sign when your program director denies being your program director.
And the school president, despite having received letters from students complaining about endemic cheating, says “I don’t know anything about it.”
Definitely not good.
UD‘s already written about the often bogus but – for many schools – financially irresistible executive MBA program. The one at Baruch College begins to look positively criminal.
For damn sure not good.
Hey. But here’s something good. The dean who oversaw all of this and then skipped out just got a job at the University of Connecticut! “Baruch Business Dean John Elliott is set to take over as dean of UConn’s business school in August.” Lucky U Conn! What with its basketball team banned from postseason play because of pathetic classroom performance, and now this guy in its business school, U Conn is covering itself with academic laurels.
June 25th, 2012 at 8:34AM
“Zicklin recruits mid-level Wall Streeters for the 10- to 22-month programs.” I’m groping for an expression along the lines of “you pay what you get for” but can’t find it. GIGO doesn’t capture it, exactly.