lol @ "well beyond the bounds of common human decency"

12/19/2011 5:07:16 PM

new TWW tagline

12/19/2011 5:18:35 PM

I thought hanging out at Peace was pretty fun, because hanging out at Meredith ment I had to pretend to like Jesus.

12/19/2011 5:28:27 PM

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"well beyond the bounds of common human decency"

Welcome to the internet, ladies.

12/19/2011 5:44:39 PM

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"it's called their admissions department..."

Incorrect. The job of the development/recruitment department is to get students to send the application in. The job of admissions is to process the applications. If you really don't believe these departments exist, go to the university website and look. There's people who get graduate degrees for the sole purpose of university recruitment.

12/19/2011 5:46:31 PM

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"http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/hrp/index.html"

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"Office of Admissions"

12/19/2011 6:00:19 PM

Right and it's two different departments falling under the larger office umbrella. Like how biology and botany fall under CALS. Or how the Office of the Provost usually has a dozen or so departments underneath it. You simply wouldn't consider them the same departments.

It gets even more confusing when you consider many graduate departments have their own dedicated recruitment staff. A lot of university money is dedicated to student recruitment, especially at private universities. I always think it's interesting to see what approach a university takes when in a situation like Peace and from what I've learned in my studies and career they screwed the pooch.

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 6:30 PM. Reason : T]

12/19/2011 6:29:47 PM

the office of admissions is typically responsible for recruiting

you were wrong

12/19/2011 6:45:39 PM

Wisonsin Office of Admissions and Recruiting
http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/

Auburn Office of Admissions and Recruiting
http://www.auburn.edu/admissions/

University of Texas
http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/transfer/admission/recruiting

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"The Office of Admissions at The University of Texas at Austin participates in a variety of activities and efforts designed to recruit prospective transfer students: "

this is too easy

12/19/2011 6:50:55 PM

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"HERITAGE NOT HATE"

12/19/2011 6:53:14 PM

^^ I know you're arguing just for the sake of it since the base of the discussion is on do universities recruit at all

12/19/2011 7:09:59 PM

you're the one that said admissions wasn't responsible for recruiting

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"If you really don't believe these departments exist, go to the university website and look."

i went and looked

[Edited on December 19, 2011 at 7:38 PM. Reason : d]

12/19/2011 7:37:54 PM

Looking for that WPU FB link from the last page.

has it garnered any more comments?

1/5/2012 11:16:37 AM

nope, it's kinda buried under all the Merry Christmas everyone! stuff

1/5/2012 11:35:13 AM

"I want to have fun!"

*throws frisbee ten feet*

1/5/2012 11:42:29 AM

I think they deleted the post about TWW off of their Facebook page

2/5/2012 11:57:29 AM

^yeah, maybe, I can't find it anymore.


the big deal going on is the story ABC 11 did

2/16/2012 12:56:19 PM

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"The average verbal SAT score of students admitted to William Peace University falls between 420 and 520, and the average math SAT score is between 420 and 500. The average ACT score of admitted William Peace University students is between 16 and 21."

2/21/2012 4:26:54 PM

jesus

the national average ACT score is 21.1

2/21/2012 11:39:50 PM

my post from page 1:

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"I took at class at Peace College one summer because it wasn't being offered at State. The girls in my class were so incredibly stupid that I actually double-checked to make sure I wasn't in some remedial/special ed class.CassTheSass also had the same sentiment when she took a class there. Peace College was seemingly a containment area for dumb girls. Admitting men is now going to allow these women to find partners and mate more readily, thus contributing to the downfall of society. Idiocracy here we come."

2/22/2012 8:09:16 AM

yeah i had a friend from HS go to peace and i was like

"wow you got into college"

then i met other people from peace and was like



OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Ok.

2/22/2012 8:10:54 AM

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"RALEIGH, N.C. - William Peace University, a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that the Board of Trustees and faculty have voted to expand the university's curriculum to include a simulation and game design major. This major will be available to students beginning in the fall 2012 semester. The simulation and game design major has been developed to prepare university graduates for careers in the industry of advanced learning technologies and gaming, which has become a growing industry across the United States, including in the Raleigh-Durham market. Wake County Economic Development (WCED), a program of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and the primary economic development organization for Wake County and its 12 municipalities, has recently placed significant interest on enhancing the local emphasis on the gaming industry, which will inevitably lead to increased job growth in the military, healthcare, academic and private industries. The development of William Peace University's simulation and game design major will assist the WCED efforts of improving workforce development and training needed for this growing industry. "

http://www.peace.edu/content/page/id/1332

2/28/2012 2:35:59 PM

My high school girlfriend got into and went to Peace. I think she got turned down by every school in NC. She MIGHT have been waitlisted at ECU...but I think she got turned down there as well.

She had decent common sense...but was as dumb as fuck when it came to school.

2/28/2012 2:39:14 PM

oh oops, did I forget to post that?

Yeah that's just insane. They got rid of the graphic design department and then added gaming design and stimulation...

...


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I just dont get it. They are seriously turning my school from a liberal arts college to some kind of tech for-profit? ITTPeace?

^what year did she enter? name? /nosy

2/28/2012 2:39:27 PM

That would be mean to give a name. But she entered in '01.

2/28/2012 2:48:41 PM

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"DESIGN AND STIMULATION"

2/28/2012 4:32:55 PM

hahahahahahahahahaha awesome

2/28/2012 4:43:55 PM

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"My high school girlfriend got into and went to Peace. I think she got turned down by every school in NC. She MIGHT have been waitlisted at ECU...but I think she got turned down there as well. She had decent common sense...but was as dumb as fuck when it came to school."

I think you mean she was just dumb as fuck. Common sense doesn't do much for you when even ECU doesn't want you.

2/28/2012 6:01:20 PM

http://www.wral.com/news/education/wake_county_schools/story/10967121/

High school leadership academies?

Gotta get that paper.

4/11/2012 12:06:07 PM

yeah so I've been following this really closely and this from the article above sums up my and others sentiment

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"Parents, alums oppose leadership academies on Peace campus More than a dozen William Peace University alumnae attended Tuesday's meeting to speak out against two proposed single-gender leadership academies at the university's Raleigh campus. Susan Murray, who has a child in the Wake County school system and another at William Peace, said the institution is in turmoil and that "faculty and student morale is at an all-time low." "You will not be welcome there," Murray said. "Everyone resents the fact that college students are being pushed aside for high school students." The school district plans to place both of the academies, which are expected to have about 150 high school students each, on the Peace campus. The programs are slated to begin this fall and are designed to feature small class sizes, advanced courses and specialized leadership training. Miriam Dorsey questioned whether the campus has enough room to accommodate high school students. "I urge you to look at these spaces (that would be used for the academies). I think you will find they are small and compact," she said. The university, which could not be reached for comment Tuesday, has come under fire from alumnae after a dramatic restructuring that included a switch from a single-gender student body to enrolling both men and women. For that reason, Murray said, it's not a suitable location for leadership academies, an idea she would support at another institution. "Peace is experiencing one of the worst times in her history," she said. Dorsey went one step further, saying the university's leadership can't be trusted. "The leadership is secretive and high-handed," she said. "Any dollars spent at Peace are dollars at risk.""

4/11/2012 12:08:18 PM

As soon as I heard about those "leadership academies" I figured it was just a way that Peace was looking to make a buck on their real estate.

4/11/2012 12:10:16 PM

so, it's slowly turning into a prep school?

4/11/2012 12:12:55 PM

Wasn't it a prep school in the past, then went to a 4-year college, and now who the hell knows what it is?

[Edited on April 11, 2012 at 12:15 PM. Reason : a]

4/11/2012 12:15:23 PM

I believe it was a culinary school, a kindergarten, high school, junior college, then a baccalaureate college (not sure if that's the right order) it also spent time as a hospital and morgue during the civil war

4/11/2012 12:21:11 PM

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/new-wake-county-school-board-members-talk-about-nixing-deal-to-house-single-sex-schools-at-pe#new#storylink=cpy

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"New Wake County school board members talk about nixing deal to house single-sex schools at Peace University More details to come, but the three new Democratic Wake County school board members are making a bid today to derail the two new single-sex leadership academies. During the presentation at today's work session (click here for the handout), school board member Susan Evans said it wasn't fiscally responsible to start the academies now. "Maybe it’s late in the game to have this discussion, but we haven’t had the chance to discuss it until now," Evans said. Evans complained that Superintendent Tony Tata hadn't given the board the opportunity before to discuss the programmatic piece of the schools. She also complained about not having gotten notice from Tata before today's announcement about the expansion of the STEM and Global Schools programs. Board member Christine Kushner said it was irresponsible to enter into an agreement to partner and house students at Peace University considering the difficulties going on there. Some Peace alums and faculty have lobbied the school board to not house the academies at the university. Several Peace critics have signed up to speak tonight against the deal. One speaker, Susan Murray, a parent of a Peace student, said the high school students won't be welcomed on campus considering the frustrations that people have with the university's administration. Board member Jim Martin questioned the decision to expand early college programs, saying it's something the board should have decided on. The N.C. State professor said that college faculty aren't clamoring to have more high school students on campus. Martin said too few students are being served as the early colleges. He argued they should instead focus on bringing up the quality of the programs at the other high schools. Amid the concerns, Tata pointed out that 300 students have already been assigned there after applying. The board is scheduled to discuss the memorandum of understanding with Peace in closed session tonight. This could lead to its adoption. As long as the four Republican members and Democratic board vice chairman Keith Sutton still back the academies, it should still pass. Sutton has been the most vocal proponent of the leadership academies. UPDATE You are pretty much in limbo right now if you're one of the 300 Wake County middle school and high school students who got accepted into one of the single-gender leadership academies for this fall. After a lengthy closed-session discussion tonight on the memorandum of understanding with Peace, the school board adjourned without taking any action. What make the situation more tenuous is that there's a vocal contingent on the board that doesn't want to house the students at Peace. If the board rejects a deal with Peace, the question is whether they could find a place to house the high school students for the 2012-13 school year. One option could be to house all the students for one year at the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, whose lease deal also hasn't been approved yet but which seems to have less opposition. The school board does have some flexibility in choosing a college partner. Only high school freshmen would attend this fall. They wouldn't start taking college courses until they're juniors."

4/11/2012 12:33:14 PM

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2012/03/advice-for-young-academics-as-the-us-university-system-contracts.html

a blog full of typos, but a relevant point.

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"Why is the university system in the US about to pop? I first thought about this future back in about 2000 when I was working at a Cal State school. The tone of the place was entirely vocational. There was no student life. No spirit. No mentoring. Nothing that I would associate with higher education. It was a group - albeit a large and at times hard-working group - of young people seeking a certificate by the easiest possible means. A university in name only. Naturally, the thought occured that the whole thing could be done online at a fraction of the cost. And that someone out there would do that. And when they did, the Cal States of the world would go under. Apparently these days are upon us. I've heard that 3,000 US colleges and universities will fold within the next 10 years. This gloomy forecast comes from the people who sell grotesquely overpriced textbooks to these schools. What a small lifeless campus can do, Phoenix University Online can do better. Thus, good-bye Direction-State University; good-bye Dead-Guy's-Name College."

[Edited on April 11, 2012 at 12:57 PM. Reason : a little taste for you guys]

4/11/2012 12:56:24 PM

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""I've been through a lot so, also I've been to New York too long so, I just wanted to go somewhere different," said freshman Brandon Young, who found out about the college though a friend."

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""Probably needed to change," freshman Alex Reynolds said. "I mean, maybe it doesn't, maybe it does. But I think it's a pretty good change. It will open some doors for different department.""

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8779841

8/22/2012 12:25:44 AM

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"WILLIMA PEACE UNIV."

8/22/2012 12:54:21 AM

Today marks 11 years since my first day of classes at Peace College

8/22/2012 10:41:44 AM

Isn't it about a 30/70% split of guys to girls? I bet the guys like those odds.

8/22/2012 11:04:29 AM

Seems to me that the guys enrolling at WPU don't really care about that split.

8/22/2012 11:18:20 AM

based on what? the two quotes above? or are you insinuating they're gay?

8/22/2012 11:20:54 AM

I'm making a bad gay joke.

8/22/2012 11:22:10 AM

Damn, Sheyenne Rodriguez

#heyboo

8/22/2012 11:24:49 AM

the girls that go to Peace aren't particularly smart

sounds like they're keeping that tradition alive with the first coed class

8/22/2012 11:47:24 AM

PEEP US

2/7/2013 7:58:38 AM

With signing day this week, one of the students where I used to work was in the paper for getting signed for a full ride playing baseball. At Peace. Haha.

2/7/2013 8:15:58 AM

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"Naturally, the thought occured that the whole thing could be done online at a fraction of the cost."

Cost for a year's tuition at Phoenix Online for a BS: $10,080
https://www.phoenix.edu/tuition_and_financial_options/estimate-tuition-and-expenses.html#url=summary

Cost at a Cal State school: $5,472+372 per credit hour if you're out of state (this is a flat rate for full time undergrads)
http://www.calstate.edu/sas/costofattendance/#sd

So...that guy's very wrong. It's cheaper to go to his "boring" schools with actual facilities, labs, and non-adjunct faculty that does research than to get a worthless online BS.

I mean, seriously, aside from military guys that have to go to school online from Afghanistan or whatever, why would anyone hire a jerk with a BS from Phoenix Online over someone from, say, San Diego State (since he's talking about CA)?

[Edited on February 7, 2013 at 4:26 PM. Reason : xxx]

2/7/2013 4:26:03 PM

I imagine because he'll be paying the Phoenix guy a lot less.

2/7/2013 4:28:20 PM

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"William Peace University To Expand Student Housing With Wolf Creek Apartments Partnership RALEIGH, N.C. – William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that the Board of Trustees has approved a partnership between the university and Wolf Creek Apartments, which will provide the option of University-affiliated student housing to all sophomore, junior and senior students. The apartments, which are located at 403 Wolf Creek Circle, provide an excellent student housing community in southwest Raleigh, with four-bedroom options to fit all lifestyles. Operating in the same manner as on-campus housing, Wolf Creek Apartments will have William Peace University resident staff living on-site. Additionally, the apartments will host student activities and have a shuttle running to and from campus. Wolf Creek amenities include private bedrooms, luxury kitchens, furnished living rooms, tennis courts and 24-hour fitness center, computer lab and maintenance. “William Peace University fully embraces being an urban campus, so the idea of expanding our University-affiliated living was a natural progression to what it means to operate in our downtown setting,” said Debra M. Townsley, Ph.D., president of William Peace University. “Our partnership with Wolf Creek Apartments allows us to provide living for students interested in pursuing this option, with convenient, safe transportation to and from our campus provided as well.” “As a graduating senior, I am proud to see that our school is growing and can provide opportunities such as new housing at Wolf Creek,” said Jeanna Buck, president of William Peace University’s 2012-2013 Student Government Association. “I am grateful to be a part of the Student Government Association that worked alongside university administration to make this expansion possible for our student body, marking one of many ongoing positive improvements to come to the WPU community.”"

lol what a haul!

2/20/2013 11:49:15 AM