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| It looks like Darth Vader's Castle, but it is the ELCA Lutheran School of Theology, sold for $18.5 million. A sinking boatload of campuses are selling off their properties, built and remodeled just in time to switch over to online facilities - home. WELS and LCMS spent a lot of Marvin Schwan's indulgence money to beautify their seminaries. He bought the copper top ELS seminary, too. Ah, guilt is so efficacious when the synods need money. Notice how many other schools of higher learning are bailing out of their facilities, due to online alternatives. I could have told them all, 20 years ago, when I began teaching online, "This is ideal for people who need to work full-time and earn a degree."  Hiking higher education charges, which rose faster than the cost of living meant the old country club feel of the 20th century college would no longer work. I enjoyed meeting my future wife the first day of college, taking classes with her, and graduating early with her. My initial first-year tuition cost of $1,000, was covered with an Illinois State Scholarship each year. Seminary was $150 tuition. Yale and Notre Dame together were almost no tuition.  |
