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Mike Reiser

Chancellor & CEO, Texas State Technical College · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mike Reeser has served as Chancellor and CEO of Texas State Technical College since 2010, overseeing statewide technical education across multiple Texas campuses. He previously served as president of TSTC West Texas and worked in commercial banking.

6statements → 4claims → 4claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 4.17/5average certainty → 2.17/5average debate potential →

2 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mike argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Reeser: Texas funds TSTC based on graduate earnings above minimum wage
“A student attends TSTC for a minimum period of time, and then when they leave TSTC, the workforce system in Texas begins to track them in the work place. They are measured for five years of employment, and then That aggregate earnings amount is compared to wha…”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 10:45 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Reeser: Six of TSTC's top seven executives have corporate backgrounds
“If you look at the executive team at TSTC of the top seven executives that we have. Six of them came out of corporate America.”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 30:56 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Mike Reiser on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Mike Reiser said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Reeser: Practitioner Degrees Generate Returns to Fund Entire Universities
“Those are all degrees that are going to result in outstanding economic impact. That by itself creates a value base that would easily justify the funding for an entire university so that the softer programs, if you will, are carried by those who have a more tan…”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 8:47 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Reeser: Texas funds TSTC based on graduate earnings above minimum wage
“A student attends TSTC for a minimum period of time, and then when they leave TSTC, the workforce system in Texas begins to track them in the work place. They are measured for five years of employment, and then That aggregate earnings amount is compared to wha…”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 10:45 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Reeser: TSTC short-term programs match two-year credential earnings
“We have some short-term programs, say one or two semesters that rival the earnings of a two-year credential.”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 14:19 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Partly supported
Reeser: TSTC refunds full tuition if graduates lack jobs within six months
“We have six programs right now that are subject to, and we aren't aware of another college doing this, our money back guarantee program. What that means is if a student graduates from that program and they work earnestly with our placement professionals and th…”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 22:30 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Reeser: Outcomes-based funding aligns student, taxpayer, and employer interests
“This approach has aligned the best interests of the students, the institution, the taxpayers who support us, and the employers who hire our graduates. All those stakeholders win When the student gets a great job at the end, and we receive our funding.”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 3:55 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Contradicted
Reeser: Six of TSTC's top seven executives have corporate backgrounds
“If you look at the executive team at TSTC of the top seven executives that we have. Six of them came out of corporate America.”
Mike Reiser Jan 6, 2022 ▶ 30:56 Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Texas State Technical College: The School With a Money-Back Guarantee · Joe Lonsdale Jan 6, 2022 11m
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