Argosy University Online - Education: Instructional Leadership

Finding Balance

By: jpaulshirley (In Progress) on July 11, 2008

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I looked into enrolling into Argosy.  It looks like a very bad risk to me.  There are soldiers who succeed in crawling through minefields and go on to win the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I don't recommend crawling through one just in hopes of getting one pinned on your chest.  Online education is so new, it is caught in the larger tides of economic, social, political, and cultural forces, and it can't yet figure out what it is or which way it's going.  The guys I talked with in "Admissions" (a euphemism for sales) tried the hard sell on me, and got their pelvic girdles on their shoulders when I didn't bite.  They picked the wrong fish to feed that shoddy bait -- I worked professionally with felons so many years that I find con games entertaining to a point, then boring - especially second-rate con games like these guys were playing.  Facts:   I copied and pasted Better Business Bureau evaluations of Argosy, two of which were a grade of "D" (for the Santa Ana campus) and "Unsatisfactory" (for the online program).  These guys tried every way imaginable to discredit the BBB, their results, and my ability to intellectually grasp the information without getting confused.  It was at that point I began losing my patience.  I also copied and pasted posts from a different forum, as a way to illustrate my concerns.  One fellow tried to make believe he thought those posts were about University of Phoenix - a pariah among online schools.  

Con games?  Nope.  Just second-rate *attempts* at con games -- and I speak as an authority on that subject.  

The tragedy is that these two clowns would not let Argosy's good reputation for it's psych programs speak for themselves.  Nope.  They had to challenge the BBB and my ability to understand it.  

Wrong move.  

If $50 is not posted back to my account by 1:22 pm tomorrow afternoon, two letters are going to be mailed and faxed - one to my bank, and the other to the local prosecuting attorney.  Games?  I don't have time.