Comments on: Getting Smarter Cheaper

By: erico49

erico49 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:48:10 +0000

Article in the paper today on the area. No mention of a baseball stadium. That’s good news.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:03:25 +0000

Regarding the headline for this topic “Getting Smarter Cheaper”: the grammar police called to remind us that going to college doesn’t make one smarter (or more intellegent), just better educated. Ignorance can be fixed, you are stuck with your IQ.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:20:37 +0000

Curiosity: Does the editor have a connection to CWI??

EDITOR NOTE–NO.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:18:02 +0000

Cheaper for who… CWI means a tax increase for property owners. They fill the huge gap between weak public schools (in which my dog could have a 4.0) and BSU, ISU, U of I.

By: Discount Häus Of Worship

Discount Häus Of Worship — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:32:56 +0000

CAVEAT EMPTOR! : Visit CWI’s Facebook Page [ https://www.facebook.com/CollegeofWesternIdaho ] and look at the Reviews.

You will quickly see that CWI has a long history of botching student’s Financial Aid, missing nebulous disbursement targets, giving erroneous and false information about the financial aid process and qualifying expenditures, along with myriad other complaints. For example : “Their One Stop office stands as a monument to some of the worst customer service I have ever even heard about…”.

When dealing with them, it is advisable to get every single promise, pledge, time-frame, etc., in writing.

You’re much better off looking at Boise State University . . .

By: Casmir

Casmir — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:14:04 +0000

So now we have CWI, U of I, and BSU all within a 10 minute drive of one another. Redundant infrastructure, redundant processes, redundant administration, redundant faculty. More costs – for what? The only thing that makes insanity like this plausible, is Federal subsidy of education beyond all reason. As J. Smith points out – a huge ridiculous bubble. There is no reason that BSU alone, should be unable to provide for the educational needs of this part of the State, all under one roof, efficiently and for nominal cost. It just takes leadership who actually care about what is right – rather than egos.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:45:15 +0000

I’m with Boisecynic for the most part — the only caveat would be that the area needs a development magnet to get going… this helps tremendously.

By: Porcupine

Porcupine — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:21:06 +0000

We would welcome CWI to Idaho City… and then no one would have to worry about traffic. Well except us folks that drive to Boise every morning.

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:08:07 +0000

CWI, please provide the appraisal for the property.

By: Easterner

Easterner — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:53:47 +0000

BSU, errhhh, I meant CWI is growing!

The obvious question is, “Why would anyone attend the actual BSU for their first 2 years of bonehead classes?”

Seems like the BSU & CWI race is going to be just like St Luke’s & St. Al’s race- the loser will be the consumer and the taxpayer.