Launching an online university is an exciting endeavor! To effectively market your online university, you should address the following top ten questions that prospective students are likely to have:
Accreditation: Is your university accredited, and by which accrediting bodies? Accreditation assures students that the institution meets certain quality standards and that their degrees will be recognized by employers and other institutions.
Programs and Majors: What academic programs and majors do you offer? Prospective students want to know if your university offers the specific programs they are interested in pursuing.
Tuition and Financial Aid: What is the cost of tuition and fees for the programs? Do you offer financial aid, scholarships, or payment plans to help students manage the cost of education?
Online Learning Experience: What is the online learning experience like? Explain your platform, the ease of accessing course materials, and the availability of technical support.
Faculty Qualifications: Who are the professors or instructors, and what are their qualifications? Prospective students want to know about the expertise and experience of the educators.
Admissions Requirements: What are the admission requirements? Describe the application process, prerequisites, and any required standardized tests.
Flexibility and Scheduling: How flexible is the class schedule? Can students choose their own pace, and is there a full-time or part-time option?
Student Support Services: What support services are available to online students? Mention resources like academic advising, counseling, career services, and library access.
Graduation and Career Outcomes: What are the graduation rates, and what career support services do you offer? Prospective students want to know their chances of successfully completing their programs and their prospects for employment afterward.
Technology Requirements: What technology and equipment are needed for online classes? Provide a list of technical requirements and recommendations.
Additionally, consider addressing the following in your marketing materials:
Student Testimonials: Include testimonials or success stories from current or former students to showcase the positive experiences and outcomes they've had at your university.
Community and Networking: Highlight opportunities for students to interact with peers, faculty, and alumni, even in a virtual setting.
Quality Assurance: Explain any quality assurance measures you have in place to ensure the high quality of online education.
Transfer Credits: Provide information about your credit transfer policies for students who may have prior college experience.
Accessibility and Inclusivity: Describe your commitment to providing accessible and inclusive education, accommodating diverse student needs.
Remember to maintain transparency and provide clear, concise, and up-to-date information on your website and in your marketing materials to build trust and attract prospective students to your online university.
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Pretty amazing. Well-written answers, and the formatting is attractive (numbering and bold headers).
Sounds "practical," "realistic," and "responsible."
Some are useful questions that prospects will certainly be asking, and I need to have answers.
But in many cases my answers are too bizarre to not require extensive explanation. I'm too tired to go point-by-point through this, but here's a couple of (negative, pessimistic) thoughts:
Accreditation: VFTU will never, ever, get "accredited" by a government accreditation agency. I think I told you about the "Christian Accreditation Agency" (I forget the exact name) which was created during the Reagan Administration when conservatives had some control over the Dept. of Education. I contacted them and they said they would not accredit VFTU because we advocate "preterism" and don't believe in the "rapture" and other premillennial doctrines.
Programs and Majors: VFTU has only one major: Political Philosophy. Political Philosophy at Vine & Fig Tree University
Faculty Qualifications: VFTU Faculty will never be "qualified" in the eyes of the modern educational establishment. I'm sure ChatGPT is "thinking" about professors who have earned Ph.D.'s from "accredited" universities. But no university teaches what VFTU teaches, so nobody (today) can have a Ph.D. in VFT and be "qualified" to teach what VFTU will teach.
What I call "Harvard 1.0" produced students like Samuel Adams (Harvard class of 1740), John Hancock (class of 1754), and John Adams (1755), all of whom signed the Declaration of Independence, which today's public schools cannot teach students is actually true. As a result, "Harvard 2.0" graduates today celebrate alumni like Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, and George W. Bush.
So the ChatGPT AI forgot to advise prospective students to ask if their "qualified" faculty would be mass murderers and war criminals. Oops.
VFTU is "Harvard 3.0" | Vine & Fig Tree University - A Harvard Education for Less Than $5,000
Graduation and Career Outcomes:
Here is the central question for students considering college: Do you want to go into debt for tens of thousands of dollars to get a piece of paper from a "woke" university in order to get a job in a "woke" corporation who requires that piece of paper even if the paper has nothing to do with the job you'll be required to do?
Are you sure that's where you want to work 8-12 hours a day?
From the VFTU home page:
Imagine you get your degree in the health sciences. You're fully "accredited." You get a job with a medical group, and you're ready to help patients. But you're told you need to give your patient an over-priced drug that will not help your patient. It helps a big pharmaceutical company, and your medical group gets a kickback, but it's not in the best interests of the patient. Your medical group will lose federal funds if you don't follow "protocol." The "health" system promotes death. Are you happy with your job?
Imagine you get your degree in electronics and engineering. You get a job in the "defense" industry. The system you're working on is sold to Saudi Arabia, who uses the program to guide missiles that blow the arms and legs off children in Yemen. Did your college classes teach you about the humanitarian disaster in Yemen? The U.S. and Saudi Arabia will soon have killed a million men, women, and children there. Are you happy with your job?
In field after field, college graduates are expected to be drones, worker bees that mindlessly obey the rules of the Corporate Queen Bee. You're not serving your clients, and you're not serving God.
"On the job training" is required because college did nothing to prepare for it. Most "on the job training" is the realization that the job sucks. Have you heard of Yale Professor David Graeber's concept of "Bullshit Jobs?" Samuel Adams has been called "The Last Puritan," and certainly believed in "the Protestant Work Ethic," but he was also pre-Industrial Revolution. What would he think about people who work 40+ hours per week to buy junk from China? James Suzman
VFTU advocates the abolition of "the public sector" and "fiat money." What would "careers" look like without these two things? What kind of people are rewarded by this system? Usury and Rewarding the Wicked (that page was created during my days at the Catholic Worker, and the formatting doesn't line up just right. Just now noticed that.)
Graeber, a self-described anarchist, was fired from Yale. Only VFTU is asking big questions from a Biblical worldview. ChatGPT creates students who will be bug-eating worker-drones. (The author of the "bug-eating" book is an anarchist who, like Graeber, was also fired [from NYU].) Regime media appraisal of "bug-eating": Davos conspiracy theories have hit mainstream media and regular Americans, says researcher | Fortune | Reply from PragerU: Yes, the WEF Really Wants You to... Eat Bugs! - YouTube
Inclusivity: VFTU is not "woke." VFTU is a bunch of "homophobic" "bigots" and "haters."
The Harvard University that produced Samuel Adams is a completely different university than the one that produced Henry Kissinger. And VFTU is a completely different university than the Harvard founded in 1636, which sowed the seeds of its own destruction. Where America's Founding Fathers Went Wrong
How does one market two completely different universes of discourse? That is, how does one market one universe TO someone who has been brought up in a completely different universe?
Students have to graduate from VFTU before they can see the value of VFTU.
Too tired to include these AI recommendations and my analysis into the VFTU home page tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
15-word summary, based on Micah 4:1-7 -- Micah 4 and Vine & Fig Tree University (15 word summary at the bottom)
What I would like to do now is formulate a question for ChatGPT that assumes that Harvard's Founders travel through time and view Harvard U. in 2023. What would be their assessment? Diagnosis? Prognosis? Prescription? (I think I have the answers to those questions, and their prescription would be VFTU.) Then, given these assumptions, what questions would prospective students be asking, or should ask, to decide whether to pursue VFTU or some mainstream college? Most prospective students, I think, have been trained/brainwashed to not even care what Samuel Adams might think or prescribe. ChatGPT would reinforce that training, I suspect.
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Most of the templates and funnels are marketing B.S. that won't be useful for VFTU, but the live calls are worth the price, because I can get questions answered. Billing students can be automated easily. Everything can be automated, and the copy can be created by AI. Or so they say.
| I'm starting a new university. No physical classrooms; 100% online. What are the top ten questions prospective students will want me to answer in my marketing materials? | |
| ChatGPT Launching an online university is an exciting endeavor! To effectively market your online university, you should address the following top ten questions that prospective students are likely to have: |
|
| Accreditation: Is your university accredited, and by which accrediting bodies? Accreditation assures students that the institution meets certain quality standards and that their degrees will be recognized by employers and other institutions. | |
| Programs and Majors: What academic programs and majors do you offer? Prospective students want to know if your university offers the specific programs they are interested in pursuing. | |
| Tuition and Financial Aid: What is the cost of tuition and fees for the programs? Do you offer financial aid, scholarships, or payment plans to help students manage the cost of education? | |
| Online Learning Experience: What is the online learning experience like? Explain your platform, the ease of accessing course materials, and the availability of technical support. | |
| Faculty Qualifications: Who are the professors or instructors, and what are their qualifications? Prospective students want to know about the expertise and experience of the educators. | |
| Admissions Requirements: What are the admission requirements? Describe the application process, prerequisites, and any required standardized tests. | |
| Flexibility and Scheduling: How flexible is the class schedule? Can students choose their own pace, and is there a full-time or part-time option? | |
| Student Support Services: What support services are available to online students? Mention resources like academic advising, counseling, career services, and library access. | |
| Graduation and Career Outcomes: What are the graduation rates, and what career support services do you offer? Prospective students want to know their chances of successfully completing their programs and their prospects for employment afterward. | |
| Technology Requirements: What technology and equipment are needed for online classes? Provide a list of technical requirements and recommendations. | |
| Additionally, consider addressing the following in your marketing materials: | |
| Student Testimonials: Include testimonials or success stories from current or former students to showcase the positive experiences and outcomes they've had at your university. | |
| Community and Networking: Highlight opportunities for students to interact with peers, faculty, and alumni, even in a virtual setting. | |
| Quality Assurance: Explain any quality assurance measures you have in place to ensure the high quality of online education. | |
| Transfer Credits: Provide information about your credit transfer policies for students who may have prior college experience. | |
| Accessibility and Inclusivity: Describe your commitment to providing accessible and inclusive education, accommodating diverse student needs. | |
| Remember to maintain transparency and provide clear, concise, and up-to-date information on your website and in your marketing materials to build trust and attract prospective students to your online university. |
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The goal of Vine and Fig Tree University is to help students understand that the Bible requires all human beings to beat their "swords into plowshares" so that everyone may dwell peacefully under his own Vine and Fig Tree.
"Swords into plowshares" means the abolition of war by abolishing all "nation-states" or "governments" and replacing human governments with the universal/global recognition of Christ as the only legitimate Governor. Human beings are to be governed by the Creator, not any creature (Romans 1:25; 1 Samuel 8:7; Micah 5:2; Acts 5:29).
For more information:
A majority of Christians in the world today -- "premillennialists" -- believe this global Theocracy/Christocracy (also called "the millennium") is not possible until after the Second Coming of Christ, when Christ will sit on a literal throne in Jerusalem, ruling over the entire world. "Postmillennialists" believe that Jesus was made Lord and Christ at His first coming, and we are now in "the millennium," and the second coming of Christ will be "post-millennial." But virtually no postmillennialists believe in the abolition of the nation-state and a completely decentralized global Christocracy. The "postmillennial" vision of "the millennium" is not quite as "Hollywood" as the pre-mil version.
VFTU teaches a radical version of postmillennialism called "preterism," in which "the millennium" is nothing less than "Christian Civilization," which, if it could be seen by Micah and Isaiah, would cause the prophets to fall on their knees in astonishment and gratitude for what the Messiah has already accomplished.
JesusistheChrist.today/civilization.htm
No "Bible college" or seminary or other institution of "higher learning" anywhere on planet earth advocates "preterism."
VFTU teaches that the Bible is the most important document in all of human history, having been dictated by God to "human penmen."
VFTU teaches that the Bible is an inerrant record of human history, beginning in the state-less, church-less Garden of Eden, recording man's desire to "be as gods" (Genesis 3:5), the building of the first governments by Cain (Genesis 4:16f.), Lamech (Genesis 4:18-24), the "mighty ones" of Noah's day (Genesis 6:4) who "filled the earth with violence" (Genesis 6:11,13), and Nimrod, the "hunter of men," who founded Babylon after the global flood (Genesis 10:8-12). Out of all the nations (Genesis 10), God chose Israel, but Israel rejected God and wanted a king like all the nations (1 Samuel 8:7; 10:19; 12:12,17-19).
Jesus said these kings love being "archists," but His followers are not to be archists, but servants (Mark 10:42-45).
JesusistheChrist.today/archist-defined.htm
Consistent Christians are called "anarchists" because they deny that archists have a moral right to impose their will on others by force or threats of violence.
From cover to cover, the Bible is a manifesto of peace.
DominionPacifism.com/peace_mandate_verses.htm
Commitment to peace and non-violence means opposition to war and "archism."
Every Professor of Political Science in every college and university on planet earth agrees that the essential definition of "The State" is "a monopoly of violence."
anarcho-theocracy.com/monopoly-violence.htm
But these institutions of "higher learning" do not oppose the existence of such an institution of systematic violence, subjugation, and mass destruction, in part because these institutions receive their "cut" of the plunder from imperialistic violence.
VFTU is the only Bible-believing university which teaches that the Bible is an anarchist manifesto:
According to some historians, 300 years ago the "Vine and Fig Tree" verses in the Bible were the most popular Bible verses in America, which was a nation built on the Bible and called a "Christian Nation."
KevinCraig.us/EndTheWall/HolyTrinity.htm
Today the U.S. is an atheistic nation (usually called "secular" rather than "atheistic" for obvious P.R. reasons), and is the most evil and dangerous nation on earth; the enemy of God and humanity.
Will the history of America as recounted in the Supreme Court's decision in the "Holy Trinity" case be known by these college graduates:
www.fullerton.edu/future-students/view/
Of course not. Knowing nothing about history all these students believe Christians are on "the wrong side of history,"
(I was the first to post the entire opinion of the Holy Trinity Court on the internet. Archive from May 3, 1999:
web.archive.org/web/19990503004253/members.aol.com/TestOath/HolyTrinity.htm
Prior to this, it was only available through expensive online services for law firms.
I was also the first to post an 1844 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that government schools "must" teach the Bible as a "divine revelation." Archive from Nov 28, 1999:
web.archive.org/web/19991128051100/members.aol.com/TestOath/Vidal.htm
The Court ignored this 1844 precedent in the early 1960's when it banned voluntary prayer and voluntary Bible reading in government schools.
The Court ignored the 19th-century Holy Trinity case in the 20th century in a case holding that those who take an oath to "support" the Constitution must have "unqualified allegiance" to the government, which excludes Christians, who "must obey God rather than man" (Acts 5:29). That case was followed in the case of a law student in Illinois, and that Illinois case was said by a Federal District Court in L.A. to bar me from becoming a lawyer.
But two [or more] homosexuals constitutes a legitimate "marriage," according to today's court, which has flushed America's Christian history down the Orwellian Memory Hole.)
When Rome initiated a military invasion of Israel years before Christ was born, thousands of Jews were slaughtered. Undoubtedly many Roman soldiers were also killed by the resistance. But Jesus told his Jewish countrymen not to resist evil military invasions (Matthew 5:39), including forced labor by the occupation troops (Matthew 5:41).
Jesus opposed the "Zealots" who were fomenting a tax rebellion. But saying "Render unto Caesar" does not confer moral legitimacy on Caesar's military invasions, subjugation, and putting a nation under tribute. Taxation is theft. As pacifists, followers of the executed Christ are morally obligated to "be subject" (Romans 13) to actions which politicians are morally obligated to repent of and cease and desist. The command to beat "swords into plowshares" is binding on all Pharaohs, Caesars, and Führers. It is binding on Biden, Putin, and Zelenskyy. They are all required to hold a "going out of business" sale and get jobs in the "private sector."
| Private Sector | Public Sector |
| Competitive Sector | Monopoly Sector |
| Persuasive Sector | Coercive Sector |
| Peaceful Sector | Violent Sector |
| Productive Sector | Parasite Sector |
Does College of the Ozarks expect Christians in Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen to erect memorials to honor the U.S. soldiers who murdered their parents, "destroying the village in order to save it?"
Unrepentant U.S. soldiers should be excommunicated by Christian churches:
WouldJesusCelebrateVeteransDay.com
Students who do not attend Vine and Fig Tree University will be victims of "Mass Formation Psychosis"
www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism/
Or as Jesus called them, "goats" (Matthew 25:31-46). KevinCraig.us/mercy.htm