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“During a decade when enrollment dropped by 3 percent, Coppin added 20 new degree programs and boosted faculty positions by 49 percent and administrative positions by 92 percent. Coppin’s professors have a significantly larger course load than other USM universities but produce by far the lowest average credit hours — essentially, faculty are teaching courses that few students want to take.”

“Monday nothing, Tuesday nothing, Wednesday and Thursday nothing…” You’d be surprised how many American universities are the educational equivalent of one of UD‘s favorite songs. These are truly nothing places full of fully salaried nowhere men and women. Everyone knows they should be shut down – even current and potential students. All have shrinking enrollments and massive absenteeism (professors and administrators are as absent as students). All are farcical in the way of Rube Goldberg contraptions that have blown every fuse but continue to make random movements.

Baltimore’s Coppin State is a notorious nothing; this letter writer to the Baltimore Sun says the obvious: Let it go. Public nothings are incredible wastes of money. Stop humiliating the taxpayers of Maryland.

Margaret Soltan, May 19, 2013 7:52AM
Posted in: just plain gross

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  1. Van L. Hayhow Says:

    I just want to know where I can get a job like these.

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