Bluefield Dental School Project Suspended

[Screwtape]

http://www.bluefield.edu/article/dental-school-project-suspended/

Seems like good news to me.

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[jeffity]

The whole thing has seemed sketchy and ill-planned from the start.

 

[free99]

Thanks for the share, I'd tend to agree Screwtape. Does anyone know what, if any, other new dental schools are in the pipeline?

 

[Miley Cyrus.]

Great, Absolutely great. This school was a shady fraud from the start and I remember its application had stuff that demanded to know your Church affiliation and number of hours spent at church-activities. It is an evangelical nutcase school, like Liberty University.

Bluefield is not opening because the phony million dollar tax-payer funded grant it got to build the school came, from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnity Commission, which is basically a slush fund of crony capitalism and government corruption. It is currently under federal investigation for blatant corruption and excessive spending: http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/s...cle_73f661f7-20df-5e1b-8320-0543a54153c8.html
Because this commission is coming under public scrutiny, this whole Bluefield venture is falling apart lol. If you google this commission you can see just how much fraud and investigation it is coming under.

Thanks for the share, I'd tend to agree Screwtape. Does anyone know what, if any, other new dental schools are in the pipeline?

Yes, I think NEOMED in Ohio is going forward with their plans. Ohio will now have 3 dental schools, just like Texas! Except Texas has a population double that of Ohio's! ( http://www.crainscleveland.com/arti...exploring-possibility-of-adding-dental-school)

There was a plan for one in Wisconsin, called Marshfield but that got scrapped on July 10 (http://www.wrn.com/2014/07/marshfield-clinic-scraps-plans-for-dental-school/)

BUT, it looks like there will be a new one in New Mexico opening up soon I'm sure. New Mexico has no dental school, LOTS of poor and I think one of the lowest populations of dentists out there. And this hasn't gone unnoticed for one businessman, who just opened up a for-profit DO school (Link below) and is considering opening up a new dental school. I googled the businessman who will be doing this and this dude is full slime and has got all the politician connections. Count on the next dental school being opened up in New Mexico.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/sa...cle_81c75562-0b1d-11e4-8405-0017a43b2370.html

All of this kind of reminds me of an article I read in Forbes detailing how rabid "crony capitalism" is now morphing into filthy "crony philanthropy". (http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhusock/2014/07/07/from-crony-capitalism-to-crony-philanthropy/) I expect we'll see more threats from dentistry due to shady public-private partnerships (Kellog Foundation - dental therapists; Delta Dental spending money on dental schools, Lutheran Medical and pediatric residency proliferation, etc).

 

[blankman321]

Great, Absolutely great. This school was a shady fraud from the start and I remember its application had stuff that demanded to know your Church affiliation and number of hours spent at church-activities. It is an evangelical nutcase school, like Liberty University.

Bluefield is not opening because the phony million dollar tax-payer funded grant it got to build the school came, from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnity Commission, which is basically a slush fund of crony capitalism and government corruption. It is currently under federal investigation for blatant corruption and excessive spending: http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/s...cle_73f661f7-20df-5e1b-8320-0543a54153c8.html
Because this commission is coming under public scrutiny, this whole Bluefield venture is falling apart lol. If you google this commission you can see just how much fraud and investigation it is coming under.



Yes, I think NEOMED in Ohio is going forward with their plans. Ohio will now have 3 dental schools, just like Texas! Except Texas has a population double that of Ohio's! ( http://www.crainscleveland.com/arti...exploring-possibility-of-adding-dental-school)

There was a plan for one in Wisconsin, called Marshfield but that got scrapped on July 10 (http://www.wrn.com/2014/07/marshfield-clinic-scraps-plans-for-dental-school/)

BUT, it looks like there will be a new one in New Mexico opening up soon I'm sure. New Mexico has no dental school, LOTS of poor and I think one of the lowest populations of dentists out there. And this hasn't gone unnoticed for one businessman, who just opened up a for-profit DO school (Link below) and is considering opening up a new dental school. I googled the businessman who will be doing this and this dude is full slime and has got all the politician connections. Count on the next dental school being opened up in New Mexico.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/sa...cle_81c75562-0b1d-11e4-8405-0017a43b2370.html

All of this kind of reminds me of an article I read in Forbes detailing how rabid "crony capitalism" is now morphing into filthy "crony philanthropy". (http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhusock/2014/07/07/from-crony-capitalism-to-crony-philanthropy/) I expect we'll see more threats from dentistry due to shady public-private partnerships (Kellog Foundation - dental therapists; Delta Dental spending money on dental schools, Lutheran Medical and pediatric residency proliferation, etc).

growth of new schools is not limited to dental schools, pharmacy schools are a great example. There used to be a huge demand for pharmacists but now with a glut of pharmacy schools, some graduates are having a difficult time finding jobs. Correct if I am wrong, but I think Tennessee went from one to six pharmacy schools in a couple of years. I am hoping dental schools don't fall under the same issue.

I remember a lot of ppl on SDN being mad about Liberty University opening a DO school. I think the MD students had a field day against DO students.

 

[jeffity]

Next up is somewhere in NY, yes?

 

[Silent Cool]

I wonder if Aspen or one of the other dental corps will ever fund a new dental school?

On a related note:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9OTCQFO0.htm

 

[Miley Cyrus.]

I wonder if Aspen or one of the other dental corps will ever fund a new dental school?

On a related note:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9OTCQFO0.htm

lol I had been joking about this before about how even DeVry would be opening up a medical/dental school. Looks like I was right!

 

[Screwtape]

The founder of comfort dental gave marquette a million to add seats.
https://news.marquette.edu/news-rel...e-1-million-gift-for-dental-school-expansion/