In doing research in Latin America, the type of institutions that were thriving in the tertiary sector was quite revealing - to me. The public sector organization continues and flourishes with UNAM as the flagship for Mexico, as was the University of Costa Rica for that country, but a "complimentary/competing" series of private sector institutions had been founded. ITESM and ULatina are the primary "best case" scenarios for this approach to providing the human capital to the national/international market. There were also many diploma mills that come and go, some with international pretensions, others with international connections. Shades of Bordieu, sceptres of Marx and me barely able to spell Gramschi.
Canada: I would suggest that Pheonix may never seek certification, as its formula provides an American degree to a wide audience who may not wish a Canadian degree - all other features being equal. In my own instant case there is a parallel of some sort. I will teach my bit of the Lambton College [Sarnia, Ontario] curriculum in China this fall. It is for a private university in China. The students receive a Lambton Diploma - if they graduate. With this in hand they may complete a fourth year at MUN for a Canadian degree or at Northwood College, Michigan [unabashedly private-sector] for a US degree. There are also options to come to Canada/USA sooner. I know of other colleagues who are going to the middle-East where similar college and university partnerships are in place [NL is big on this.], as well as, high school graduation diplomas as per the BC and NB system. These latter attempt to entice Chinese students into the Canadian system as undergrads. So.......
it is happening and the FDU is but the tip of the iceberg, the underpinnings for which are being sown by the NB & BC governments, as much as any other source. [Strong claim: so, so evidence: Elements of the provincial governement support a partnership with Chinese private schools and ...... leaves it with a nice conspiracy theory tinge].
Best
Michael Ryan
Rick Coe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, the University of Phoenix has not (yet) been
certified by B.C. (perhaps because they haven't requested it).
At 04:08 PM 16/08/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>That's *exactly* what it looks like, Russ.
>
>Check out the University of Phoenix, as well -- they also have "campuses",
>if that's what they can rightly be called, in various part of Canada,
>including Calgary.
>
>Russ Hunt wrote:
>
>>This is amazing. From _New Jersey_ to beautiful BC? Sure looks like it:
>>
>>http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=4003
>>
>>On their web site, this gem: "We are the first non-Canadian institution
>>to gain approval under the new more stringent standards adopted by
>>British Columbia in 2003." Were there others before these, um, "more
>>stringent" standards were introduced? The whole page, a triumphal note by
>>the FDU president, is worth reading. Another sample: "I´m confident that
>>we will attract international students from throughout the world, many of
>>whom are unable to obtain visas to study in the United States, but seek
>>the rigor of an American university degree program."
>>Rigor?
>>
>>I confess to being alarmed by this: it sure looks like the beginning of
>>the Walmartization of postsecondary education to me . . .
>>-- Russ
>>
>>
>>
>>>This may of interest to some CASLL readers in Metro Vancouver. (I
>>>didn't know FDU was opening a branch in Vancouver)
>>>
>>
>>St. Thomas University
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