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Date: Jan 11, 2005

Earn money by dropping courses!

Date: Jan 11, 2005

I was going to comment, but at the moment it appears more important that I drive to Gulf Park & enroll in an overbooked class so I can drop it!

Date: Jan 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Angeline
"More of Shelby's fine business mind at work: From a Gulf Coast campus professor: >News Flash:INformed Student Sources at Gulf Park report that the Gulf Park Customer Services Operation is offering students in '"overbooked" classes $100 to change their schedule. That is students who agree to withdraw from an overbooked class get $100 in their pocket ---whether they enroll in another section or not. This was confirmed by a lower level administrator.As I live and breathe through this 32nd year in higher education this is a new one on me. Again the issue here is the total absense of academic management authorities at Gulf Park for Gulf Park operations. Neither the COO nor the Customer Services Director have any substantial experience in administering higher education operations, and no academic authority exists at Gulf Park to compell debate on best practice.<"

FROM FCAULTY SENATE LISTSERV:

Jan. 11, 2005

Dear Faculty Senators,

     I was concerned about the $100. rebate situation after reading today's
e-mails. I needed to discuss a number of items with Dr. Grimes, so I added the
rebates to the list. These are the important details concerning this
situation, as provided by Dr. Grimes (via my interpretaton). First, only a
small number of students are involved (ten or less). Second, the $100. is a
"scholarship" of sorts, i.e., if a student ended up in an overbooked class AND
withdrew from that class AND signed up for another class they were charged $100
less tuition. In no cases were students given $100 (as in cash or check).
Students who withdrew from an overbooked class and did NOT sign up for another
class did NOT receive a rebate. I hope this has clarified the situation. If
you have any more questions about this please contact me and I will, as always,
be happy to bug an appropriate person.

     There are a variety of important items to be discussed at this Friday's
meeting of the Faculty Senate and I look forward to seeing all of you there.

                                                 Best wishes,

                                                 Dave Beckett
                                                 President, Faculty Senate

Date: Jan 11, 2005

Thanks for the update!

Date: Jan 11, 2005

Is the seating assigned (Delta) or open (Southwest)?

Date: Jan 11, 2005

Rats! Just as I thought I could run down to Gulf Park, register, drop & have the pesos to take Mrs. Invictus over to Steve's Marina for chow, the truth raises its ugly head. Bum-MER.

Date: Jan 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Eagle
"Is the seating assigned (Delta) or open (Southwest)?"

As far as I know, whether seating is assigned or open at both Delta & Southwest is left to the discretion of the instructor.

Oh. You're not talking about community colleges, are you?

Date: Jan 11, 2005

If you were going to give people money to get out of an oversubscribed course, why would you let them enroll in the first place?

Date: Jan 12, 2005

Other recent uses for $100.00, from the Financial Times today:

"After a meeting held by Mr Allawi's campaign alliance in west Baghdad, reporters, most of whom were from the Arabic-language press, were invited upstairs where each was offered a "gift" of a $100 bill contained in an envelope.

Many of the journalists accepted the cash - about equivalent to half the starting monthly salary for a reporter at an Iraqi newspaper - and one jokingly recalled how Saddam Hussein's regime had also lavished perks on favoured reporters."