Assertion Partly supported
Oyerinde: US higher ed is half as institutionally efficient as the UK
“With 200 universities to educate two million people a year. In the United States, we have 10 times as many students, about twenty million students, but 20 times as many institutions. We have 4000 colleges and universities and states. So we're half as efficient…”
Insight
Oyerinde: Quality and completion are community college's real problems, not cost
“So yeah, cost isn't really the problem with community college. The major, like, problem with community college, I sort of describe in two ways. It's like quality and completion, which is kind of a child or derivative of quality.”
Opinion
Oyerinde: Community college beats taking on debt for a tier-three school
“For, I'd say, at least half of students in America today, community college is the clever path, it's a smart path, it's way better, even, even with the lower graduation rates than getting, Getting into debt to go to a tier three.”
Opinion
Oyerinde: Adjunct professors tend to be better teachers than tenured faculty
“Because adjuncts, in my experience, tend to be, like, more likely to be great teachers.”
Assertion Supported
Oyerinde: US student loan debt has reached $1.8 trillion
“And so, you know, institutions keep raising tuition, and the government just keeps financing more student loans. And that's why we're at one point, about 1.8 trillion in student loan debt at this point.”
Assertion Supported
Oyerinde: Associate degrees increase lifetime earnings by roughly $500,000 over high school
“So like generally speaking if you get a bachelor's degree, you're going to out earn people with just a high school diploma by about a million dollars over the course of your life. Associate's degree gets you about half the value. So about half a million dollar…”
Assertion Supported
Oyerinde: University of Phoenix had a 5% graduation rate under Obama
“University of Phoenix. Those guys, when Obama came in, they had five percent graduation rate.”
Assertion Supported
Oyerinde: University of Phoenix dropouts averaged $10,000 in student debt
“Their average dropout Had 10,000 dollars in student loan debt.”
Assertion Supported
Oyerinde: Only about 30% of community college students ever graduate
“Only about 30% of students who go to a community college will ever graduate. With an associate's degree or transfer into a four year school and get a bachelor's degree.”
Assertion Supported
Tade Oyerinde: CUNY ASAP achieved 51% completion rate through four support principles
“They've been able to achieve a 51% completion rate In their CUNY ASAP program, the Accelerated Study of Associate's Degree programs where they basically found if you did four things, you can get students to graduate about 50%.”
Disclosure
Tade Oyerinde: Campus gives every student a laptop and subsidizes Wi-Fi
“Instead of a MetroCard, because most of our students are fully online, we give every student a laptop, and we pay about a third of their Wi-Fi bills if their Wi-Fi is too, too slow or unreliable.”
Assertion Supported
Oyerinde: Campus pays adjuncts $8,000 per class, doubling national average
“So the average adjunct makes about 4000 dollars per class that they teach. In community colleges, it's closer to two and a half K. And we pay 8000 dollars to our adjuncts today.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Oyerinde: Campus has recruited 300 professors from top universities and HBCUs
“Just about 300. On the network from, all from top 50 universities or top five HBCUs.”
Assertion Partly supported
Oyerinde: US community colleges serve 10M students annually in a $100B market
“There's ten million community college students in America each year. It's about a hundred billion dollar market.”
Assertion Supported
Oyerinde: US government gives $40B in free education grants annually
“Our government already gives away forty billion dollars In grants. Free grant money. You don't have to pay back to finance education for middle income and low income students.”
