Heed's Bad Ad

[Gabe]

In a recent issue of psychology today I saw an advertisement in the back of the magazine for Heed University. It directed the reader to either send an e-mail or contact them by phone. I went straight to www.heed.edu and the website simply says "Under Construction". To me this is just unacceptable. I've not even considered Heed, but how can they expect anyone to take them seriously if they don't even have so much as a functioning website. Moreover, why even bother advertising?

[Albert Hidel]

Here's a link to Heed that seems to be working: http://www.heed.edu/degree.htm

This 2005 article quotes John Bear as describing Heed as "somewhere in the middle" in the spectrum of legitimacy.

Also this from the article:

After a reporter inquired several times about the school, Heed University took its home page, www.heed.edu, off the Internet.

BTW, according to the Heed website, "Heed stands for Humanistic Education through the External Degree."

[Duggle]

There was a time in the late '70's and early '80's when Heed was earnest. But like a lot of nontraditional schools, one didn't know what the future would bring. By the end of the 1980's, most legitimate nontraditional schools had gone on to regional accreditation, (Walden, Union, Fielding, etc.). Some died out (like IGS), while a few others (WISR, CPU) have hung on as unaccredited-but-substantive. In the 1990's, a few more (CCU, Southwest) became DETC-accredited.

Heed seems to be existing in little more than name only.