Eddie Long is known by another name, Bling Bling. He preaches prosperity theology. Let's look at that in the context of 25 students getting screwed. I don't know what it costs to put a kid through state school in North Carolina, but I can tell you here in California is was ~$23K a year. I'm going to the $23K and assume 5 years of school per student. That's $2.8M of tuition paid to the university by the graduating class. Factor in the 39 other students in the educational pipeline for an additional $897K of income per year. In turn the University pays the church rental/lease income for the use of church facilities, administrative costs, and I would assume other fees as well. Somebody made money here. The students paid the bill.
In other news, Eddie Long announced a 1 million dollar gift to North Carolina Central University last week. Nothing suspicious here, move along folks, move along.
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Interestingly, the link on NCCU's homepage doesn't work for tuition and fees, but a search led to their list (http://www.nccu.edu/admissions%20and%20aid/Tuition%20and%20Fees/INTER-INSTITUTIONALONLINETUITIONANDFEES_08-09_ESTIMATED.pdf). For in-state, full-time students, it's $264 per 3 hrs. For out-of-state, it's $1,252.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Raleigh News & Observer, "Students paid $888.57 per three-credit course".
"From those revenues, NCCU paid the church $120 per student per course taught... UNC system officials confirmed that is the proper way to administer an out-of-state program. The church provided classrooms, equipment, offices and administrative support, helped recruit students and instructors..."
(http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1171548.html) .
None of the administration involved in this are still at the campus, so there's not much info yet. Long also gave $400,000 to the school a few years ago, and has been the commencement speaker twice. They claim that the curriculum was purely non-theological.
"A human growth and development instructor's degree was listed as "doctor of graduation."
"Long told the Atlanta newspaper in 2005: "We're not just a church, we're an international corporation. We're not just a bumbling bunch of preachers who can't talk and all we're doing is baptizing babies. I deal with the White House. I deal with Tony Blair. I deal with presidents around this world. I pastor a multimillion-dollar congregation."