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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 04:21 PM
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What can you possibly learn at Trump University?
Edited on Mon May-23-05 04:21 PM by terrya
How to be a greedy, soulless, corporate creep who only cares about making money?

Unfuckingbelivable

NEW YORK - He's built buildings, written books, married models and starred in a reality TV show. On Monday, Donald Trump announced his latest venture: Trump University.

Don't expect ivy-covered walls or a football team. Trump University will consist of online courses, CD-ROMS, consulting services and Learning Annex-type seminars.

"In today's hyper-competitive business climate, the need for the highest quality education has become more crucial than ever," Trump said. "But people are looking beyond the traditional business education model, which involves hours in the classroom and relies primarily on book learning."

The for-profit university will not offer degrees or grades. Courses will cost $300 and will take one to two weeks to complete. Trump said longer courses of two to three months would be offered in the future.

Michael Sexton, a management consultant most recently with Accenture in New York, will serve as president of Trump University.

Roger Schank, professor emeritus and founder of the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, will act as chief learning officer.

Schank, who joined Trump and other faculty members at a Trump Tower news conference, said the school would emphasize "learning by doing."

"The problem with school is that school is a little academic, a little theoretical, not necessarily practical," Schank said. "It doesn't necessarily serve the general public, who may just want to know how to do something."

Students — or customers, as Trump University staffers refer to them — will be able to register starting this week for classes in marketing, real estate and entrepreneurship, with additional curriculum areas planned for the future.

"It's going to be a tremendous venture. It's going to really help a lot of people, which is what we really want to do," Trump said.

The faculty includes John Vogel, adjunct professor of business administration and associate faculty director of the Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth; Jack Kaplan, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship in the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University and founder and president of Datamark Technologies Inc.; and Don Sexton, professor of business at Columbia University and founder and president of the Arrow Group, Ltd.

Trump said that the idea for a university had been at the back of his mind for years and that the project could develop into a brick-and-mortar school.

"When I make speeches, a lot of people show up," he said. "A lot of people."

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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 04:22 PM
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1. Bankruptcy and fooling network execs into thinking you are some
kind of genius.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 04:22 PM
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2. How to get a really bad combover?
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Kikosexy2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 04:57 PM
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3. How ...
not to get mad but get everything--a la Ivana...darlingk! As well as sponsor bad reality shows like the Apprentice and Ms. America pageant.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 05:02 PM
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4. Bad combovers and wigs, unerring arrogance and
How to be born to an incredibly wealthy father who gives you $30 million the day you graduate from college, back when $30 million was SERIOUS money. And who, when you ineptly sail into the shoals of bankruptcy, visits your casinos and buys up millions of dollars worth of chips, then takes them home and puts them in his closet, a huge zero-interest loan that he never called in.

The tricky part is going back in time to select those parents, but that's why you pay the Short Fingered Vulgarian the big bucks.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 05:06 PM
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5. You can learn that "You're Fired"
:silly:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 05:08 PM
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6. And now he's passing his lawyer costs onto us... who would be asinine
enough to take a course from this charlatan?

Bankruptcies every 7 years, he files for. He's no good at finance OR business.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-05 05:10 PM
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7. I want to learn how to...
inherit a shitpot of money and lose most of it so I can go to the family and borrow half a billion from them to save my "empire" from my first bankruptcy.

Then I want to learn how to lose my big boat and my airline.

And I really want to learn how to beat up on an old bandsinger who learned things the hard way and brag about how I won while Griffin walks away with the money and I get some groady old casinos that I can't afford to fix.

And I want to learn how to buy the Plaza for twice what it's worth nd have my wife renovate it so I'm guaranteed to sell it at a loss.

Finally, I want to learn how to go bankrupt again so I can hire a guy who knows what he's doing and claim success at "only" being down to 30% ownership in my company. The one drove I into the ground.



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