Professors have an incentive

[bcdaron]

Professors have been paid a specific amount no matter how many students enrolled and completed a course. I want to say it was $1945 per session. So if there are 10 people they are paid $1945. If there are 100 people they are paid $1945. They may be changing this.

I had no direct contact with most professors. The others were 2-3 emails at most except for 1 class where I had 4 Zoom calls. Most of the contact was their responses to the rough draft and final submission of the Final Assessment. I can't even tell you most of my professor's names.

The above average completion has a great deal to do with YourPace students are all adults. Everyone is over 20. Most are significantly older. Think of how many people from here have attended UMPI. We are on a mission - to complete our degrees not to party with a football team (they don't have a football team).

ETA: Both ashkir and I are quoted in the PDF. 

And then there's this little bit of info at the very, very, very end. Perhaps a glimpse of what may be coming in 2023 and 2024 depending on accreditation. 

It plans to submit a subsequent request in August 2022 to deliver Cybersecurity and Psychology, with Computer Science and Health Administration scheduled for proposals in 2023.

It might have been a party school in the past. Back in the old days, they had a football team.

Aroostook State Normal School had a football team at one time, although it was short-lived. The football team began in 1936 and continued until 1939. In that last year, the football team won the State Championship of Normal School Football Teams. With the emergence of the second world war, many male students left school to fight in the war. Without those male students, the football team no longer existed, as there were not enough participants to make a team.

http://pages.umpi.edu/umpi-history/football.htm

Additionally, according to the school newspaper there was an intention to start a football team again. I'm not sure if COVID has further delayed this, but as recent as 2021 this was the case.

http://wp.umpi.edu/utimes/2021/04/01/did...-football/