Stung by ongoing charges that he is anti-Christian, George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) has directed his weekly vitriol release at Sheila Danzig. She operates a legit and respected credential evaluation service, but in the past has been dubbed "an A-1 Jew" by the recently and thankfully departed lowlife Uncle Janko. Gollin apparently is trying to demonstrate he is an equal opportunity asshole.

Sheila was but one of several legit credential evaluators who got stung by the Liberian government when they first granted SRU government approval--and hence "RA equivalent" status--and then revoked it under still mysterious circumstances.

None of which has anything whatsoever to do with Sheila's press release, which Gollin falsely labels as "fooling" Google News.

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...9948c2f332

There is no truth to his claim that she is "fooling" anyone in this press release or by implication on her website, degree.com. As stated in the Google release:

Quote:All of the colleges and universities listed at this site offer accredited online degree programs. It is important that ONLY accredited programs be considered by students or they will have nothing to show for their money and work.

Quote:In the nineteenth century, Anna Ticknor, a Boston activist, developed a program that helped women to take college courses at home. Now women could get an education -- in an era when many university campuses still refused to allow female students to enroll. Universities throughout the country adopted similar programs. Students could now take correspondence courses and graduate from programs hundreds of miles from their homes.

A DD thread:

http://www.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?t=30399

It must be so easy for those guys to make the determination that schools accredited by Black governed countries are degreemills.

White guy Alan Contreras has St. George's University of Grenada on his Oregon degreemill list. It is certainly accredited and very well respected but obviously lacks the quality that can only come from white oversight. Hasn't this guy been deemed a civil rights violator by Oregon courts? Why does he still have a job? Who's he bl........ Strike that last comment. I really don't want to know.

Gus is back talking about the Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica. At one time this entity offered graduate degrees via DL through the International Postgraduate School of the University of San Jose.

DD thread

http://www.usj.ac.cr/

I was doing my due diligence on this school starting in 1995. I was interested and thought that it may have been the Costa Rican counterpart to the public university in Peru that John Bear was touting* which allowed distance students to present their thesis or dissertation in English. From what I had been able to gather to that point, it looked legitimate.

Let’s remember, these were the early days of the World Wide Web and I had yet to get online. I carried floppy disks and small diskettes to save my WordPerfect documents. You get the picture.

The school was listed in the World University Directory and the Costa Rican Embassy in Washington confirmed that they were an approved private university in their country’s capital. Unlike some of the garbage being used by mills at the time, they had brochures with color pictures of their facilities which looked decent by Third World standards where universities were never adequately funded.

I moved to Miami in 1996 because my business at the time required me to regularly visit the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands and it was a lot easier commuting from Miami than New York. Since the North American agent for the International Postgraduate School of the Universidad de San Jose had an office in Miami (actually unincorporated Miami-Dade County), I figured that I would drop by and see what I could learn firsthand. I had called several times and left messages with the office secretaries or on his “answering machine” but never received a return call.

Imagine my surprise when instead of the 3 or 4 room office I expected, the address turned out to be Mall of the Americas. I was suitably impressed. That is until I went into the mall and couldn’t locate the school’s office listed on the mall  directory. I rechecked the address and walked outside, and began circling the mall. The mall had businesses ringing its exterior that you accessed from the outside only. I finally located their office - it had Mailboxes Etc. stenciled on the door. It was all downhill from there.

The “secretaries” were the Ring-a-Ding answering service in N. Miami Beach, the North American agent was named “Johnny Ortega” and beside his job in academia, he also operated a churrascaria (South American barbeque restaurant) in Sweetwater, FL – a small, working-class enclave located a little further west of Miami. At that point I realized that even if the school was somehow "legitimate", it engaged in too many questionable practices as far as I was concerned.

* The Peruvian university later got caught up in some FBI or Secret Service investigation but Bear came out of it smelling like a rose, of course.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/maloney8.html

Quote: Yet, if you insist on becoming a college man anyway, citing the salary discrepancies between the have degrees and the have not degrees, my advice to the young men who wrote to me, those holed up in college libraries clutching Mises and Rothbard to their furrowed brow, is to take stock of where you are and what college is really about. Think about what position you are in.

A recent blog post by Lew Rockwell sums up that position perfectly – "as I walked on a university campus this morning…the girl-boy ratio was overwhelmingly girl." Haven't you watched Animal House? What in God's name are you doing in the library? Who the hell goes to college to learn anything? Understood properly, America’s college system is not a haven of learning; it is a four-year party with the background noise provided by tenured hacks giving their interpretations of foolish utopian schemes culled from other long-dead hacks.

In college happy hour is every hour, so remember to ignore your professors and let your dog off the leash; it’s hunting season. You are there to network, drink, smoke, and build up the fond, blurry memories that will allow you in later years to watch a porn movie and reminisce about when you used to get up to such wondrous madness. Stop wasting valuable college time reading Mises and Hayek – they’ll be plenty of time for that later – and cease frittering away a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

A DD thread that referenced a discussion of Uncle J's shortcomings was revived thanks to DD newcomer El Cheapo. El Cheapo, who also posts at Degreeboard, said that he saw no point to the thread since "the man" (Janko) wasn't around to defend himself. Fine, but the last post had been made a month earlier and the thread had effectively been closed. El Cheapo's comments only served to give the thread a bump.

That doesn't make sense unless ...

Borderline defamatory DD thread

Unaccredited Frederick Taylor U grad Gabe shows up the buffoon with the fancy Ivy degree. Self-appointed intermeddler George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) tries to "correct" Gabe about Liberty University's accreditation. The Sphincter asserts that Liberty has only TRACS accreditation, not RA:

Quote:by g-gollin on Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:25 pm

In the CHEA directory TRACS (which is Liberty's accreditor) is a "National Faith-Related Accrediting Organization" and not a regional accrediting organization.

Quote:Re: There IS hope for unaccredited degree holders
by Gabe on Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:34 pm

Wrong.

Liberty University is accredited by SACS as you will find on their Institutional Accreditation page: http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=7650
"Liberty University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Liberty University."

Refer to this June 11, 2008 article "Liberty makes accreditation change": http://tinyurl.com/dg2vvl
"For many years, Liberty has maintained accreditation through both TRACS and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) -- but one accreditation is more than sufficient for the school to keep its strong academic reputation.
"Most schools only have one [accrediting body]," said Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. "SACS has always been our primary accrediting agency."

Liberty has been accredited by SACS since 1980: http://www.sacscoc.org/details.asp?instid=43000

http://www.cheyenneherald.com/_pdf/March...ncials.pdf

10% Student Services - 30% Marketing.

There were lots of schools worse than KWU.  They were a target because of size and success.  Why didn't they just fall back to California to bide time?  If they suspected they were good enough for accreditation, they might actually have gained California approval when it restarts.

It seems like a pretty big business to walk away from.

A Degreediscussion thread:

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=3&t=6573

From the den of thieves who usually plot to determine the quickest, easiest, and crappiest route to a degree comes criticism of Harvard Extension. It's Harvard and few people will question a Harvard degree because they only compromise for the rich, the famous, and athletes. Everyone else must earn their degree.

A Degreediscussion off-topic thread:

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=6&t=6582

A third rate party with socialist ideals. The last time they ruled Ontario, they crushed the economy. And Jimmy says he likes the weasel Taliban Jack.

A year or two ago the New Democrats were defeated in the have-not Saskatchewan. Now it's leading the Canadian economy with real growth. Another oddity is that they won the Grey Cup (CDN football), something that has never happened with them in power.

When the New Democrats took over the government of BC about a dozen or so years ago, they turned a proposed mine into a provincial park. Even though it's a major industry, another mine has not opened there since.

Restributing the economy is fine as long as you're not redistributing poverty.

Suddenly a new stalker clone appears on the scene at DD, using the handle “wikitikitava.”  

Seems to have quite an interest in this website.  He, she or it has made only two posts so far, yet for some reason both are concerned with this site’s domain registrar.

Well obviously this is not a “new” poster at all, but just one of the same old retards using a different handle.  But aren’t multiple registrations a TOS violation, resulting in banishment?  Or is this just another example of Goose’s double standard when it comes to his pals?  

The name seems to be a play on the name of a character in Kipling’s “Jungle Book,” Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a mongoose that saved a human family from some surly snakes.

There also is the very old song by Donovan, “Riki Tiki Tavi,” which admonished in its lyrics:

Quote: Everybody who read the Jungle Book knows
that Riki tiki tavi's a mongoose who kills snakes
Well when I was a young man I was led to believe
there were organisations to kill my snakes for me
ie the church ie the government ie the school
but when I got a little older I learned I had to kill them myself