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Apr282009

Daniel Webster College starts blog about ITT sale

Filed under Nashua by michael brindley at 5:21 pm

It appears that Daniel Webster College has started a blog that is being used as a forum for answering questions about and responding to criticisms of the proposed ITT sale.

Called “A New Day for DWC,” most of the blog postings are comments taken directly from stories published on the Nashua Telegraph Web site or on Facebook, with Vice President of Institutional Advancement Mike Quinn responding.

For example, one Facebook commenter wrote:

“Sadly, this is the result of the selection of Dr. Myers 4 years ago. DWC needed a leader to create a strong alumni & donor network. Instead we selected a salesman with a history of privatizing schools (University of Maryland Univesity College). I fear Dr. Myers has lead us past the point of no return. The court hearing is May 26th @10am in Nashua.”

 

 

Quinn responded:

Incorrect. This pending transaction is the result, in part, of a strategic vision that was ratified by Trustees, faculty, staff and students.

We did not have the finacial wherewithal to “put fuel in the tanks,” as President Myers likes to say. ITTESI, a larger entity with the investment dollars at hand was looking for a small, private college with a vision. The combination of the two is going to help DWC realize what it has never been able to achieve on its own.

The point of no return would have been closure.

Another example of a Facebook comment:

“ITT is a complete joke in the world of higher education. Any affiliation with it will be considered by those who know better to be a poorly veiled attempt to screw families out of their money. Students come into my office every day and leave crying/pissed because they spent 4 years and $100K on a degree or portion thereof from an unaccredited school (see ITT) that has no value in the real world. At a school like ITT, students can essentially buy their degree… hence their for-profit status. So even if DWC is allowed to retain their regional accreditation from NEASC, and even if the name won’t change, and even if the brands are kept separate, the mere association with the ITT name - as a product of that company - tarnishes DW’s reputation. Watch the quality of the student body drop like a Cessna in a stall. This is terrible news, and anyone who tries to spin it otherwise shouldn’t be trusted (Skippy).”

Quinn’s response:

This post made a number of assertions about “ITT”(so, not sure if it is ITT Technical Institutes or ITTESI):

1. Complete joke
2. Screw families out of their money
3. Students spend $100K, leave office crying
4. Buy degrees
5. Parent company tarnishes DWC reputation
6. Student body quality = Cessna in a stall
7. Terrible news, don’t trust peanut butter

It would be extremely helpful to see some substantial evidence to back up one or any of these assertions.

One comment, however, on #4: you purchased your degree from a non-profit institution (paid $$ in return for instruction and experience), and you received a valuable product in return. The fact that ITTESI is for-profit or that DWC is non-profit is immaterial.

 

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