[LegendHasIt]

How did she ‘force’ them? Like with a gun? The force of her overwhelming personality? I can’t imagine any of my many college professors could have forced me to buy them a cup of coffee much less join some organization I didn’t want to.

I dropped LOTS of classes that I had value conflicts with the ‘perfessers’.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

How did she ‘force’ them? Like with a gun? The force of her overwhelming personality?

The article states that the course was required to obtain a business degree. The students had no choice but to take the class if they wanted their business degree, and had no choice but to pay this crazy woman if they wanted to take the class. That's force.

[Mr. K]

1) it was a required course

2) a requirement to take the course was to buy a book

3) read the article

[sit-rep]

sometimes I dont red the excerpt either... but this was included above...

Once students paid the $99 subscription fee online, they saw a statement that said, “Your membership fees are used to (1) pay for use of the technology and (2) pay guest speakers, educators, and facilitators. Your professor does not receive any financial compensation from your membership fees as that would be a conflict of interest.”

[heartwood]

Assignments seem to have required use of the organization’s private website.