‘This isn’t a real school’: Online university UMass Global could be a financial liability for the state | The Boston Globe
“I think that there is something that doesn’t feel right about labeling something ‘UMass’ that is not, as far as I can tell, accountable in any way to the people of Massachusetts,” says Eileen Connor, president and executive director of the Boston-based Project on Predatory Student Lending.
The Brandman acquisition, Connor notes, “involves [sending] a lot of money to entities in California that are supposedly nonprofit.” Now, she says, “Our flagship public university is on the hook for things... in a way that could cost taxpayers and could also destroy this institution that we have all collectively invested in.”
