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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 8 Jan 2019

      A is 46 years old and had been a military chaplain for almost 20 years. He found his income practically capped at $50k - couldn't move up. He was pretty concerned about ageism. Two weeks after graduation he was making $85k.

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    2. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 8 Jan 2019

      R is the reason we put together our nonprofit fund (http://lambdapaf.org ). He was $400 short on rent his last month in class when the farmer he was laying pipe for fired him after he refused to work weekdays (because of school). We loaned him the $400. Hired for $75k.

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    3. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 8 Jan 2019

      S was waiting tables making $400/week during Lambda. She now makes $70k.

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    4. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 8 Jan 2019

      J is 37, had two uncompleted degrees, and was feeling pretty stuck in life. He came to Lambda hesitantly, barely opting for us over a community college. Had multiple offers within weeks of graduating.

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    5. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 8 Jan 2019

      Here's another where I'll let the picture do all the talkingpic.twitter.com/lncHSGTvqO

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    6. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 8 Jan 2019

      D's wife was supporting the family making minimum wage before Lambda. After he was hired post-Lambda they were over 6 figures.pic.twitter.com/LmrdR21lEQ

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    7. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 8 Jan 2019

      We have hundreds of stories like this (literally), despite being around for about 18 months. The *only* reason this works is because we have an incentive structure that allows us to hire 50+ people who think and hustle to help these students 24/7. Fin.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2019
      Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred

      As you try to scale up—rather than the current few thousand students per year through very stringent admission—please remember two concepts: selecting on the dependent variable and creaming—which doesn’t mean “stealing” from other schools. There are decades of extensive research!

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2019
      Replying to @zeynep @AustenAllred

      Almost every pilot like yours has great stories. Yeay. There’s space for a small amount of this. You have dealt with a few thousand at most that you have carefully selected. Even tiny tiny community colleges that nobody’s heard of deals with a lot more students.

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    10. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 9 Jan 2019
      Replying to @zeynep

      I legitimately don’t even understand what your argument is anymore because you’ve so aggressively backpedaled while trying so hard not to admit you made false assumptions. You started out saying the details were “so horrific and predatory it boggles the mind”

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2019
      Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred

      If you scale up in this form and try to charge that much to millions of students! Twitter threads don’t work well to put it all.

      7:22 AM - 9 Jan 2019
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        2. yoni rechtman‏ @yrechtman 9 Jan 2019
          Replying to @zeynep @AustenAllred

          So move to email and publish the results.

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        3. Don Richard‏ @DonaldRichard 9 Jan 2019
          Replying to @yrechtman @zeynep @AustenAllred

          +1. Austen and Zeynep, this would be a great opportunity to work together and increase Lambda's potential impact on future students. I'm sure there are areas where Zeynep, as an university educator, could be helpful in addressing any scaling and admissions issues for LS early

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        2. Alex Carter  🤷‍♂️‏ @AlexCartaz 9 Jan 2019
          Replying to @zeynep @AustenAllred

          I imagine that as lambda scales more advanced placement, pacing, and pricing models will emerge. Models that accommodate cost of living in different countries (int’l exp) and models that allow for prorated payment based on a mix of self paced learning (self paced shld cut cost)

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        3. Austen Allred‏ @Austen 9 Jan 2019
          Replying to @AlexCartaz @zeynep

          Yes, it’s silly to think nothing in the model would change

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