Starbucks Pays for College Education for all Employees

[OperaDad]

<p>Starbucks announced late Sunday it will pay for thousands of its workers to take courses through Arizona State University to complete their bachelor's degree.</p>

<p>The Starbucks College Achievement plan will let full- and part-time workers choose from 40 undergraduate degree programs at ASU that will be delivered online. 135,000 employees are eligible.</p>

<p>Read more: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-college-plan-2014-6#ixzz34tmn8gHw"&gt;http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-college-plan-2014-6#ixzz34tmn8gHw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

[mom2collegekids]

<p>Great!</p>

<p>so, is ASU charging instate rates to all of these employees/</p>

[OperaDad]

<p>Starbucks College Achievement Plan</p>

<p><a href=“Education: Starbucks Coffee Company”>http://www.starbucks.com/careers/college-plan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>ASU Online Programs. There are 40 undergraduate degrees listed, so I am guessing any undergraduate on-line program is available. </p>

<p><a href=“Online Degree Programs | ASU Online”>Page Not Found 404 | ASU online;

[mom2collegekids]

<p>I wonder if other univs will strike affordable deals with large employers? Seems like a win/win…money flowing in for online classes…and employees getting educated.</p>

[kelsmom]

<p>This is a Starbucks benefit that really makes a difference. They offer health insurance, but it pretty much costs an employee his/her entire paycheck (know some employees who work there for the benefits). The addition of college courses is a huge bonus.</p>

[BuckeyeatHeart]

<p>Something else to point out – this offer is supposedly only offered to employees at corporate-owned Starbucks.</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>ASU is a for profit school, I expect Starbucks has made some sort of deal.
If they really wanted to help employees, they wouldn’t limit reimbursement to one for profit university.</p>

<p><a href=“Starbucks free tuition plan comes at a cost”>Starbucks free tuition plan comes at a cost;

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Although ASU is a public university, its online wing is definitely a revenue-generating enterprise, helping the university manage its finances in an era of declining state aid. Online courses are taught by ASU professors, but much of the technical and administrative work that goes into managing ASU Online has been handed over to a private company, Pearson.</p>

<p>In addition to limiting student choices, Goldrick-Rab said she believes it will leave them with a shoddier education. Recent research has suggested that online-only classes may leave low-income students at a disadvantage. Those are precisely the people, said Goldrick-Rab, who are mostly likely to enroll in ASU Online through the Starbucks program.</p>

<p>“These studies indicate that online education not only doesn’t work well for them, but can also propel them backwards,” she said. Students would also expected to become full-time students, while still working an average 20 hours per week at Starbucks.
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[thumper1]

<p>Emerald…ASU is not a for profit university. Pearson, the group that runs the online courses is for profit. </p>

<p>There is a difference.</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>Right, but they are anticipating using these online student dollars to help with on campus costs.</p>

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ASU Online, a division of the university, has expanded its operations in the past two years, reaching out to more students and *generating an estimated $6.2 million in profit, *or net revenue, this fiscal year. By 2020, early projections show ASU Online could reap as much as $200 million in profit, or the equivalent of about 7 percent of the university’s total revenue.

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<p>Read more: <a href=“Help Center - The Arizona Republic”>Help Center - The Arizona Republic;

[BuckeyeatHeart]

<p>This report is from 3 years ago. Online universities seem to have taken off quite a bit within the past few years so I would be interested in knowing how ASU Online compares to other major universities with online divisions.</p>

[MommaJ]

<p>One big question is how a Starbucks/ASU online degree is going to be regarded by prospective employers. </p>

[Erin_s_Dad]

<p>More info. Starbucks isn’t paying anything. They negotiated a discount.
<a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/starbucks-contribution-scholarship-overstated-24213361”>http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/starbucks-contribution-scholarship-overstated-24213361&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;