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 only fools congressmemberpersons and similar retrograde intellects. Medical professions are licensed and heavily regulated by our overseers, so no milled degree is going to get you into the operating room unless you are the patient.

Here's a great example of how the well-motivated mental case can create havoc in the health care professions, without need of a bogus diploma vendor:

Slight Problems Found With "Nurse of the Year" Award

Quote:Here is a short list of the potential problems that authorities recently alleged in connection with Betty Lichtenstein's "Nurse of the Year" award, which she received in 2008:

• She isn't a nurse.
  

Wait, I found a few more:

• She was working at a doctor's office at the time, falsely claiming to be an RN.
  
• She was doing things real nurses do, like give injections, without a license.
  
• She received the award from the Connecticut Nursing Association.
  
• There is no "Connecticut Nursing Association."
  
• Lichtenstein staged the dinner at which she received the award.
  
• She invited forty people to the fake award dinner, including patients and other staff.
  
• She asked the doctor she worked for to be the keynote speaker.
  
• She was arrested in May for trying to buy drugs with a forged prescription.
  
• She used a slip from her boss's office to do it.
  

Oh, and "Lichtenstein" isn't her real name.

I think that mostly covers it.

Link: Hartford Courant

As far as we know (so far) DesElms doesn't have anything to do with setting up this brothel in Baltimore. But considering he is the self-proclaimed "expert" in massage parlors this seemed like the appropriate place to put this story:

Exposed! ACORN Gets Its Nuts Cracked: Teenage Prostitutes, Money Laundering and Tax Fraud

Quote:Thursday, September 10, 2009
by Doug Giles

It appears as if ACORN is not just into soup kitchens, daycare, voter fraud and town hall intimidation; they will also help a young wannabe Madame jumpstart a whorehouse. ShamWow, folks! Community organizing, indeed! I mean . . . what community is complete and feels truly organized without some hookers in the hood? God bless 'em. It brings a tear to your eye, now doesn't it? Hope and change, folks. Hope and change.

Just imagine how tricky it must be for a young adult to get her dream of selling sex off the ground during an economic recession in a competitive market (sex trafficking) with the banks slow to dole out cash for small loans to a brothel. I'm guessin' it's brutal.

And we're not just talking about selling any old sex but 13-year-old El Salvadoran sex. It's got to be really grueling to launch that bad boy, eh? It's not like you can go to college or trade school to learn how to farm out the flesh, eh?

That's where ACORN comes in-and here's where their light truly shines and their magnanimity really blows us all away.

Do you think I'm making this stuff up about these creepy community organizers and their dirty deeds done on your dime? Because, y'know, I could be, seeing that I am a mean, old conservative mobster and all. Would ACORN reps actually doing the aforementioned on video make you a believer? It would? Well giddy up because there happens to be a boatload of fresh footage destined to crack ACORN's nuts!

In an espionage adventure that James Bond and Simon Templar would be proud of, two young filmmakers posed as civilians wanting to run a house of prostitution and infiltrated ACORN with video cameras rolling and found the nutty ACORN employees absolutely giddy about helping the characters with the following:

- How to start up their dream whorehouse with 13-year-old girls imported from El Salvador.

- How to fly their house of ill repute under the radar as a "performing arts" center because the girls "are performing" and it is "a form of art." Wink, wink.

- How to avoid paying any taxes on the revenue generated by their 'clients'.

- How to fraudulently claim the underage illegal alien hookers as dependants on their year-end taxes.

- How to funnel portions of their prostitutes hard earned dollars into congressional campaign coffers. ...

Lastly, if the FBI has any extra time and any spare agents to pull off their multi-state investigation of ACORN for voter registration fraud from the last election, they might want to dispatch some of their top guns out to Baltimore's ACORN offices because all the abovementioned sorta sounds illegal, doesn't it?

Some poster ask for input concerning his upcoming retirement plans and Bear along with Rich Douglas offered their 2 cents.

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=6&t=7016

We need more e-colleges

Quote:Published: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009 12:14 a.m. MDT

Children born since the dawn of the Internet Age probably wouldn't think twice about learning online. They might just as soon read a Shakespeare sonnet on Twitter as hear it live from a teacher in a classroom.

And yet the educational establishment still debates whether e-learning (aka "virtual schooling" or "distance education") can be as good as traditional in-person teaching in a campus setting. Jokes are still being made about successful e-schools, such as the University of Phoenix, as being "diploma mills."

Now the results of a recent federal study should help "log out" of that tired debate. The study, released by the U.S. Department of Education, found that many types of online education for a college degree are better at raising student achievement than face-to-face teaching.

The big advantage in digital learning is the "time on task," or flexibility for a student to absorb the content of a subject. Once students are given "control of their interactions," they can set their own pace. They often study longer or visualize a problem differently. Professors also are forced to design better instructional techniques by the very nature of the technology.

The most effective learning occurs when a school combines e-learning with classroom teaching. Yet for many students, such as stay-at-home parents or those with day jobs or those with low income, online learning is all they can afford in time or money.

The Education Department is making plans to create free, online courses for the nation's 1,200 community colleges — which teach nearly half of undergrads — to make it easier for students to learn basic skills for jobs. The courses would be offered as part of a "national skills college" managed by the department.

The rapid rise of e-learning may finally help burst the bubble in rising tuition costs, which now average more than $25,000 a year for a degree from a private bricks-and-mortar institution.

Someday the best college teachers in the country won't need to be confined to one institution but will find their lectures and course materials spread to millions of students at low cost via the Internet. That would be a huge, historic leap in productivity for the education industry.

Any country that makes learning more accessible and less expensive through cutting-edge cybertechnology — say, by putting textbooks on devices such as the Kindle — will have a leg up in the global knowledge economy.

This time it's American University for Humanities - Mississippi, Colorado, Lebanon etc.

http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.aspx

The school lists American Academy of Liberal Education accreditation for the Georgia, Lebanon, and Singapore schools.

http://www.auh.edu/accreditation.html
Tbilisi Campus College, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, was elected as a fully accredited member by AALE for a period of 10 years starting July 1, 2005.
AUfH program at Arts, Sciences and Technology University in Lebanon, Jadra Campus, Lebanon, was elected as a fully accredited member by AALE to December 21, 2009, extendable to December 2011.

AUfH program at Lee Community College, Singapore, was elected as a fully accredited member by AALE to December 21, 2009, extendable to December 2011.

AUfH program at Urartu University for Practical Psychology and Sociology, Armenia, is an Applicant Member of AALE with expected date of accreditation 2009/2010

AUfH program at Mashdots College, Glendale, California, USA, is an Applicant Member of AALE with expected date of accreditation 2009/2010

The Colorado Campus of the University is an Applicant Member of AALE with expected date of accreditation 2009/2010.

AALE website:

http://www.aale.org/highered/list.html

It's back to the whole problem with lists. When someone with limited talent who's challenged for ambition tries to maintain a list it is inevitably wrong. It could be someone's life's work checking out Contreras's scewups.

Think about it. During degree mill trials judges have never mandated minimum levels of instruction. Judges have ruled that "elements of instruction" must be provided before granting degrees. If "elements of instruction" are provided, the law is happy.

In his book Degree Mills, John Bear even reveals the millist he truly is by coming out and saying "But what about a college which requires a three page dissertation before awarding a degree? One man's diploma mill is another man's alternative university" leading the reader to believe that it's perfectly acceptable to earn an advanced degree by writing an essay.

Congress and States have had the power to require colleges to become accredited for centuries now, and to mandate minimum levels of education. Whenever legislature comes together to discuss the possibility of a law they say "Well, we agree that instantdegrees needs to go, but what about the ones who make them do a little work? How do we define between awful and criminal?" suggesting that they want awful colleges to stay in business.

College Republicans Compiling List of Liberal Professors at Ohio School

Quote:UT College Republicans President Matt Rubin, a junior majoring in political science and public administration, says the list is not an attempt to bash professors who have liberal ideas, but an attempt to speak out for students who may have been victims of political bias.  

Randiah Green, The Independent Collegian

Monday, August 31, 2009

The University of Toledo's College Republicans are compiling a list of liberal professors who they claimed have a bias against conservative students.

The list will include professors who students say have let their political views interfere with the way they interact with students in the classroom.

UT College Republicans President Matt Rubin, a junior majoring in political science and public administration, said the list is not an attempt to bash professors who have liberal ideas, but instead, it is an attempt to speak out for students who may have been victims of the bias, which was then reflected in their grade.

"We've been portrayed in the media, as well as comments from people in the community including College Democrats, saying that we're creating a blacklist in order to smear the names of professors and that's not true," Rubin said. "We're giving a voice to the students that have been harassed because of their political beliefs. It's the same thing as bashing a student because they're gay."

Rubin said the list of liberal professors is important because of the many complaints he received from students at UT College Republicans meetings, concerning professors who made unnecessary political comments, including anti-Bush statements.

"At our weekly meeting, something we like to do is take time out for students to tell stories of any bias they have had in classes. What we're doing is representing students who have had that experience. We're trying to expose professors who have liberal bias and go against everything UT stands for," Rubin said. "How is saying 'President Bush is the dumbest president this country has ever had and should be hanged' improving the human condition?"

The students who submitted and reported incidents such as these will remain anonymous, Rubin said.

"We had a student who said, in an ancient Greece class, Professor William O'Neal claimed that America did not liberate Europe in World War II. However; it was freed by Charles De Gaulle and the free French, not U.S. Soldiers," Rubin said.

O'Neal, chair and professor of history at UT denied ever making the comment.

"To base this on the statement of a single student doesn't seem as evidence to convict liberalism," he said. "If you had a whole class come and say, 'this guy is preaching his own gospel,' that would be different, or if there was a substantial number of students from that class."

Rubin said the list of dubbed liberal professors could also be beneficial to some students.

"We like to think of it as a liberal professor directory, not a list. Also, we'd like for it to be used as a resource for liberal students who are looking for like-minded professors that will positively affect their grade based on their bias," he said.

Rubin added he and the UT College Republicans are not against professors who have liberal views.

"We realize that some professors are liberal, and that's ok, it's when they completely disregard a student's opinion or they have a bias against them that might affect the way they are treated or graded, is what we think is wrong," Rubin said.

O'Neal said although there may be some professors who let their political preferences affect the way they treat their students, it is not something he has witnessed as a common denominator at UT.

"We're all human and there are some people who are totally committed to their own view points with very strong personalities, so I'm sure in our imperfect world this does exist," he said. "But I do not know of anyone in this department who will base grades on hair color, eye color or political aspirations, and I have been the chair of the history department for three years and have been teaching here for 40 years."

David Mann, a second year law student, said there are other important issues the College Republicans could be concerning themselves with.

"If I were a College Republican, I'd be spending my time trying to figure out why young people overwhelmingly support President Obama and the Democratic Party, and not waste it on this silly idea," Mann said. "But if conservative students are afraid to defend their principles in the classroom, maybe they do need a list of professors to avoid."

UT has an abundance of resources available to students to help them if they experience this sort of bias, O'Neal said.

"If the student feels abused, they should talk to their professor. If that doesn't solve the problem, they should go to the department chair. If there is still a problem, they can even go to the dean or the Vice President [for] Student Affairs. There are so many places to go to avoid this type of thing," he said.

Rubin said, though the directory of liberal professors is of high importance to the UT College Republicans, they have done many other positive things that people should focus on.

"We like to consider ourselves a well-rounded group. We're not just a group of students sitting in a basement trying to slander these professors. We're really doing a lot more this year. We've been helping out with several local campaigns and we also are having a school supply drive for students at Scott High School," he said.

Rubin said the UT College Republicans are still working on compiling the directory of liberal professors, and expect it to be available on their Web site by Wednesday.

... at a porn site!!!  

degreediscussion.com link

Bear apparently came across a trademark infringement settlement between a DL school and a porn site while he was perusing the avn.com (Adult Video News) site.

It's all coming together now. The faggy mannerisms, the effeminate gestures, the whiny voice and itchy backside.

Having failed ignominiously at his attempt to be John Bear, George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) is now trying to be the next Mr. Blackwell, the dead poofter fashion commentator whose "worst dressed" lists entertained millions of brain damaged for decades.

First Gollin insults the "gaudy" fashion sense of the St. Thomas-a-Becket faculty.

Today he's making catty remarks about IIU prof Hans Kempe's outfit and accoutrements.

Thay there, Hanth, why can't you dreth like a real exthpert? And that emergenthy flair ith thooo much bigger than my little microphone! Oh my!