George can barely conceal his hatred for and contempt of Knightsbridge University and everything it stands for. Take note of the comments of the rest of the gang.

DD thread speculating on Knightsbridge's demise

Quote:Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

Legal - Accredited - Earn a college degree based on what you already know!

http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?t=1213

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. If that's true, the "gold standard" RA colleges are making their surviving students stronger on an almost daily basis.

UConn Football Player Killed In Campus Stabbing

Quote:By DESMOND CONNER
The Hartford Courant

10:54 p.m. EDT, October 18, 2009

STORRS - About nine hours after his Huskies walked off Rentschler Field with a victory over Louisville, after a press conference filled with smiles and platitudes, [regionally accredited] UConn football coach Randy Edsall's phone rang. When the phone rings at that hour, Edsall said, it's never good.

Edsall would have to go to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford to identify a body.

Jasper Howard, a 5-foot-9, 174-pound junior cornerback for the Huskies, was dead after an on-campus stabbing early Sunday.

Howard, 20, who was soon to become a father, was stabbed near the Student Union. Police also said a second stabbing victim, a male who was with Howard, is not being identified but was treated and released from the hospital.

...Howard's death makes him the third Connecticut college student killed on or near campus in the past six months. In September, [regionally accredited] Yale University graduate student Annie Le, 24, was found strangled and stuffed into a wall in a school laboratory. Raymond Clark III, 24, who was working as a university lab technician in Le's research building, has been charged with her murder.

In May, [regionally accredited] Wesleyan University junior Johanna Justin-Jinich was working at a university bookstore and café a few blocks from campus when Stephen Morgan, whom police said stalked her, allegedly walked in and fatally shot her.

Quote:Thursday, October 08, 2009

By Miriam Hernandez

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A [regionally accredited] UCLA student was badly injured when a fellow student slashed her throat in a campus lab, police said Thursday. An arrest has been made in the case.

UCLA police responded to a call of stabbing in a lab room in William G. Young Hall at about 12:20 p.m. The victim suffered multiple stab wounds, including one to the neck, and was transported to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

..."It was cut from here to here, it was cut open," said Lee, motioning to his throat. "It was terrible. I could see stuff, and then blood all over the place."

Quote:By My-Thuan Tran

October 12, 2009

Lambda Phi Epsilon, based off the [regionally accredited] UCLA campus, was looking for new members. But a fight broke out, people were injured and five have been charged. Now the university is investigating.

...That's when the trouble started. After the rush event ended, fraternity members said, the crowd grew in the early hours of Sept. 22.

A fight broke out. One fraternity member was stabbed in the stomach, another student was stabbed in the arm and another hit over the head with a bottle.

Seven people, including three students, were arrested. Four were ultimately charged with attempted murder and aggravated mayhem. One student was charged with being an accessory to aggravated mayhem.

It's deja vu all over again.  

Where was CHEA director George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) when his employer UIUC was in chaos with scandal after scandal being reported?  Missing in action.

Where was George Gollin when a UIUC faculty member had gay sex with a student who then went on a mass murder spree?  Total silence.

Now, once again something is happening right at UIUC that really is George Gollin's business, so why isn't he sticking his big hook nose into it like he does with everybody else's business?  Better things to do.

Back in August the University of Illinois, George Gollin's employer, was hit with "dozens" of student swine flu cases.

University of Illinois Hit With Swine Flu Cases

Quote:Produced by Ammad Omar on Friday, August 28, 2009

The University of Illinois is reporting at least a dozen cases of suspected swine flu among students. Universities across the country are on high alert to prevent the disease from spreading.

Quote:By Debra Pressey
Friday, October 16, 2009 3:40 PM CDT

URBANA — Parents of University of Illinois students wondering how soon their kids will be vaccinated for H1N1/swine flu will have to wonder a bit longer.

The UI McKinley Health  Center received only a limited amount of H1N1 vaccine late this week from the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, and it’s all designated for health care workers at McKinley, the College of Medicine and the College of Nursing, Director Dr. Robert Palinkas said.

Vaccinations for health care workers on campus began Friday morning.

The UI hasn’t yet received any of its vaccine order from the state for its student population, Palinkas said, and if there’s any vaccine left over after health care workers are vaccinated it must be returned to public health.

UI officials can’t set dates for student vaccinations until vaccine arrives, and that remains an unknown, Palinkas said.

“At some point, the vaccine supply chain will make its way in greater and greater quantity,” he added.

No doubt our beloved Dear Leader Barry Soetoro is hiding something, the question is what.  Some have speculated it’s his illegitimate lineage, his true father being a communist pornographer and not a Kenyan student as he claims.

Now a new theory from commentator Mychal Massie:

Quote: But there is one thing that wouldn't be as accessible to public scrutiny and that is his medical records.  If in his background there is evidence of emotional breakdown, susceptibility to breakdown, emotional instability or something similar and it became known, it is the one thing that could derail the objectives of the power behind him.

Russell S. Kitchner, associate vice president for regulatory and governmental relations at American Military University, took a shot across Gay Al's rotund bow at the recent Washington DC meeting of the Presidents’ Forum ("A group of Web-based education administrators, consultants, government officials, and researchers").

Questioned about state governments' regulation and authorization policies for internet schools operating across state borders, Kitchner said:

Quote:“In some states you’ll find people who are just going to decide to interpret the legislative intent of the laws under which they are operating in a way that is convenient or consistent with their own personal opinions,” Kitchner added. “…That’s not good for the industry, it’s not good for the agency, and it does not breed the kind of cooperative environment which I think is going to be necessary in the longer term."

In a letter to California Governor Schwarzeneggar urging him to veto AB 48, Consumers Union Special Projects Director Elizabeth M. Imholz assails the unwarranted deference the bill gives to accredited institutions.  

Consistent with what many here have argued for years, she confirms that accreditation is not an indicator of even a minimum level of quality, but is rather just a self-serving collective.

Quote:This bill exempts from coverage all institutions accredited by any regional accreditor. That means that these schools, which have a large student population, have no consumer protection (e.g. disclosure and refund) requirements—and they pay no licensing fees to the state.

In addition, other accredited institutions are granted automatic approval to operate with no state review. Accredited institutions are those that receive federal financial aid. These are the schools with the largest revenues, the largest number of students, and severe problems of abuse. Having them automatically approved with no state review will have huge adverse consequences, affecting a huge proportion of students. Furthermore, once the privilege of state approval is given, it is very difficult to remove if problems are  uncovered.

Accreditation alone has been shown over and over again to be wholly inadequate as an indicator of minimal quality.  Accreditation is basically self-regulation with schools paying to have themselves evaluated by groups comprised of schools. There is no sound policy basis for allowing either total exemption or automatic eligibility for accredited schools.

I recently read a thread on a site posted by a self-proclaimed single mother with 2 children and no alimony. That already paints a not so endearing picture of the individual, but after all it's her problem.
This individual claimed she suddenly discovered she had almost used up her Can$ 50.000 provincial study subsidy, while collecting her federal one as well, plus others such as food stamps, housing benefits etc.
She claimed to have used it up on living expenses because she claimed to be either unemployed or working occasional jobs; and she was only halfway through her degree via distance learning!
By the way, such degree should have costed her only about half that first amount only.
Her idea was to trick the system relocating to another province to get another $50.000...
Guess how much this welfare hog will cost to society?
Do you think she'll be able to pay big brother back, or rather won't she slip down bankruptcy avenue like many in her position?
This system is bound to collapse.
So if it's not war to invade a foreign country so that clowns in power can shower their bankrollers with hefty contracts, it's this...while you foot the bill.

Will CSU's motto someday be: 'I am a Phoenix'?

Quote:By William Tierney
Special to The Bee

Published: Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 5E
Last Modified: Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 - 10:53 am

It's March 2011. California's next governor calls a morning news conference to make a stunning announcement: The Apollo Group's University of Phoenix will pay $2.3 billion to buy the California State University system.

"The previous administration left us with few alternatives," explains the new governor, who won election on a campaign pledge to end California's chronic imbalance between what it takes in and what it spends. "Selling state parks nets a few hundred million dollars," he continues, "but transferring ownership of CSU to Phoenix will permanently save us billions. And Phoenix says it will increase enrollments."

Far-fetched? Is Phoenix, the nation's largest for-profit university, really a candidate to take over CSU, the nation's largest four-year public university system? Consider:

The 23-campus CSU system, which serves 450,000 students, has struggled to increase enrollment as tight budgets have eaten into its share of the general fund. The most recent state budget brought into full relief the extent of its financial straits. In July, its trustees voted to take no new admissions in spring 2010 and to raise fees by 20 percent, to $4,026 a year. The 47,000 faculty and staff will be asked to take two unpaid furlough days a month.

And the system's money woes will likely continue. The state's jobless rate reached 12.2 percent in August, a postwar record. While the California economy is slowly recovering from recession, many forecasters expect growth to be too tepid to cut into the state's double-digit unemployment through 2011. Continued high employment means less tax revenues. The state's Legislative Analyst's Office projects budget deficits through 2012-13.

This uncertain financial outlook undercuts CSU's primary mission: giving students greater access to quality higher education at an affordable price, keeping them in school and sending them into the labor market with bachelor's degrees.

The problem is that California's need for college-educated workers is outpacing its ability to produce them, and the gap is expected to widen, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. If current trends continue, the state will experience a serious shortfall of college graduates by 2025.

Enter the University of Phoenix, a member of the fastest-growing sector in higher education. In 2007, the number of students enrolled in for-profit universities and colleges totaled nearly 1.2 million, roughly 6.5 percent of all students attending degree-granting institutions. In 1967, 22,000 students were enrolled in for-profits like Phoenix. Apollo, Phoenix's corporate parent, has increased enrollment from about 100,000 to 400,000 since 2000.

Most of Phoenix's current students are part-time working adults, a student-body profile that makes Phoenix a logical candidate to run CSU. According to estimates by the National Center for Education Statistics, many future college-goers probably won't be able to afford school full time and, as such, will not have the same desire for a campus experience as do younger full-time students at traditional colleges. They want to hold a job and/or raise a family as they learn. Many also opt for online learning, and the University of Phoenix is the largest purveyor of such learning.

Phoenix's methods would introduce greater efficiency into California State University. Unlike CSU, it tracks and publicly reports on what students learn in its courses. It puts faculty applicants through an instructor "boot camp" to weed out weak teachers and to ensure that those who graduate are prepared to teach. It keeps tabs on teaching quality as well, and the contracts of weak teachers are not renewed. Contrary to expectations, Phoenix's part-time faculty has proved to be every bit as qualified as full-time faculty in some academic areas, and the graduation rates of its part-time students are comparable or exceed those of their counterparts in traditional colleges.

Phoenix also has the ability to ramp up enrollment in one area and decrease it in another. For example, if more students want to go into business, then business courses will be added until the demand lessens.

Finally, the for-profit university offers a bonus for state legislators weary of years of budget meltdowns. Based on a recent Sallie Mae study, a higher proportion of students at for-profit institutions rely on federal financial assistance than do students at public institutions. With Phoenix's acquisition of the CSU system, lawmakers could look forward to a shift away from subsidizing CSU toward greater federal student subsidies.

Yes, the University of Phoenix has many drawbacks. It has little concern for academic freedom. Tenure is nonexistent. Its ability to adapt courses to the latest findings in scholarship is frequently missing. It lacks transparency and resists any meaningful regulatory oversight. It would likely increase student indebtedness.

But Phoenix is a proven generator of trained graduates ready to enter the work force. At a time when the California economy needs educated workers and its higher-education system is less able to deliver them because of severe budget constraints, a University of Phoenix's takeover of the California State University system may be more plausible than one might think.

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William Tierney is a professor of higher education at the University of Southern Califronia and is the author of numerous books, among them "New Players, Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities."