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    Thread: "Gold Standard" Rots in WV
Post: "Gold Standard" Rots in WV

The combination of regional accreditation and program accreditation has long been hailed (in some places, at least) as the vaunted "gold standard" against which all others are to be measured. But a...
Don Dresden General Education Discussions 6 30,072 06-03-2008, 01:42 AM
    Thread: "Nurse of the Year" Had No Need For Mills
Post: "Nurse of the Year" Had No Need For Mills

How often do we see some self-appointed "expert" claim that unaccredited schools must be crushed because people with bogus medical degrees might kill somebody? Of course it's a stupid argument that on...
Don Dresden Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited 2 17,236 09-11-2009, 01:17 PM
    Thread: "We need more e-colleges"
Post: "We need more e-colleges"

We need more e-colleges (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705327277,00.html) Quote: -- Published: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 12:14 a.m. MDT Children born since the dawn of the Internet...
Don Dresden Distance Learning Discussion 1 13,110 09-08-2009, 09:15 AM
    Thread: $10,000 or 10,000 RPM?
Post: $10,000 or 10,000 RPM?

Bruce Tait Wrote: -- Bruce   Administrator   Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 6,021   My father was a bank president; I've actually held a $10,000 bill in my hands.   -- http://...
Don Dresden Nominees, second-stringers, others 6 36,742 01-13-2010, 05:28 PM
    Thread: $10K Bounty for O's Transcripts
Post: $10K Bounty for O's Transcripts

Quote: -- ...We therefore offer in reward $10,000 to anyone who provides the college transcripts of President Barack Obama. Occidental, Harvard, Columbia...any would represent more intellectual curio...
Don Dresden General Education Discussions 5 29,834 05-03-2012, 06:18 AM
    Thread: 2008 Top Military-Friendly Colleges
Post: 2008 Top Military-Friendly Colleges

http://d1586.u21.iamtechassist.com/files/MAE_3-6_TopSchools.pdf Quote: -- KMI Media Group and Military Advanced Education are pleased to present the 2008 Top Military-Friendly Colleges and Universit...
Don Dresden Distance Learning Discussion 4 70,322 02-20-2009, 11:02 AM
    Thread: A University the Football Team Can Be Proud Of
Post: A University the Football Team Can Be Proud Of

They aren't kidding when they talk about the "gold standard."  The higher education cartel has plenty of gold.  But there's still some question about their standards. Tonight's big game not just on...
Don Dresden General Education Discussions 0 10,336 01-13-2010, 03:39 PM
    Thread: Abe Lincoln Now DETC
Post: Abe Lincoln Now DETC

Abraham Lincoln U in Los Angeles, CA joins the ranks of DETC-accredited law schools (Taft (http://www.taftu.edu/), Northwestern California (www.nwculaw.edu) and Concord (www.concordlawschool.edu) bein...
Don Dresden Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited 3 34,419 01-23-2011, 07:14 PM
    Thread: Accreditor's Lies Killed College
Post: Accreditor's Lies Killed College

They're from the quasi-governmental administrative agency and they're here to help you.... Oh, that's just the COE (http://www.council.org/), they're a minor national trade-school type accreditor. ...
Don Dresden Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited 4 31,005 07-14-2012, 02:29 AM
    Thread: Alternatives to DI and DD for Normal People
Post: Alternatives to DI and DD for Normal People

Goose’s clone refuge DegreeDiscussion.com will soon fade into the past from whence it came.  It’s been circling the drain for some time (some would say since the day it was conceived), but now that sp...
Don Dresden Distance Learning Discussion 5 26,690 06-19-2009, 08:01 AM
    Thread: At Least He Had A Friend
Post: At Least He Had A Friend

Gollin gleefully if belatedly discovers the death last June of Robert S. Stefaniak, former SRU apologist. http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6977&sid=1bc5dedd589036e0a007bfd59...
Don Dresden Nominees, second-stringers, others 0 8,481 08-19-2009, 10:32 AM
    Thread: Bear New Unaccredited WISR Board Member
Post: Bear New Unaccredited WISR Board Member

Do you say it "wiser" or "whizzer"? WISR is the Western Institute for Social Research, an unaccredited but California approved operation in Berkeley. Aren't all unaccredited schools death on wheels?...
Don Dresden John Bear 15 81,501 04-16-2013, 02:42 AM
    Thread: Belford Hit With $22.7M Judgment
Post: Belford Hit With $22.7M Judgment

Speaking of fakes, wouldn't this story have more credibility if they had cited a real expert and not someone who had been sued multiple times in federal court for extortion, defamation, stalking, comp...
Don Dresden Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited 0 10,178 09-07-2012, 02:33 PM
    Thread: Call for Consumer Warning re Degreediscussion
Post: Call for Consumer Warning re Degreediscussion

We have consumer warnings here for online schools that screw over their students, shouldn't we also have a consumer warning for online "discussion" boards that serve as fodder for stalkers? In pa...
Don Dresden Distance Learning Discussion 8 42,666 09-17-2011, 10:17 AM
    Thread: Campaign for O, Get Credit
Post: Campaign for O, Get Credit

Does "RA" mean Ruining America? Ridiculously Arrogant? Rooting for the African? Quote: -- Campaign for Obama, get college credit (http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/31/campaign-for-obama-get-college-...
Don Dresden Unaccredited vs. State-Approved vs. Accredited 2 16,006 09-04-2012, 11:02 AM
    Thread: CCNH Gets USDLA Cert
Post: CCNH Gets USDLA Cert

http://www.ccnh.edu/mediafiles/pressreleases/2008/press042208.html Quote: -- Clayton College of Natural Health Awarded Quality Certification by United States Distance Learning Association 04.2...
Don Dresden Distance Learning Discussion 3 22,596 04-30-2008, 07:18 AM
    Thread: Chancellor U DL MBA
Post: Chancellor U DL MBA

In today’s spam… From scenic Cleveland, home of the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame, it’s Chancellor University (http://www.chancelloru.edu), offering DL MBAs through its Jack Welch Management Institute...
Don Dresden Distance Learning Discussion 4 23,057 03-13-2010, 11:11 AM
    Thread: Clueless Gollin Zapped Again
Post: Clueless Gollin Zapped Again

Not exactly news, but George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin), the Princeton dumbass who likes to pretend he understands accreditation, has been proven clueless yet again. This time Dr...
Don Dresden George Gollin 11 50,712 12-18-2009, 03:25 PM
    Thread: COSC Levicoff-Proofs Program
Post: COSC Levicoff-Proofs Program

According to Shawn A (also known as Capella Rocks elsewhere) at ToelickerInfo : Quote: -- My daughter received a letter from Charter Oak admissions today. Effective July 1, 2009 - all new Charter Oa...
Don Dresden Nominees, second-stringers, others 4 26,083 06-28-2009, 03:24 PM
    Thread: Coursera 1st Online Bachelor's
Post: Coursera 1st Online Bachelor's

£9,600-£17,000 = $13,658-$24,187 USD at today's rate.  Not cheap but not bad for a bachelor's degree.  Link to description on Coursera website (https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-com...
Don Dresden Distance Learning Discussion 0 7,439 03-27-2018, 06:05 AM