For anyone who hasn't already spotted it on other channels, DETC-accredited Andrew Jackson University has a new "no tuition" program.  

Quote:To take advantage of this new and unique opportunity, students need only to apply to Andrew Jackson University through one of our marketing partner sites. Applying through a partner site makes the applicant eligible for a 100% tuition sponsorship for their entire program at AJU. Once enrolled, the student will only need to pay a per-semester student fee, a per-course proctoring fee, and for textbooks.

Quote:Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday took the American Academy for Liberal Education off accreditors’ death row, lifting a ban that prevented it from approving new institutions. But while the secretary also extended the agency’s federal recognition by three years, through 2010, she required a series of reports to and appearances before the Education Department’s accreditation advisory committee that could keep AALE on its heels.

AALE, as it is known, has been in limbo since April 2007, when Spellings, acting on a recommendation by her National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, barred the accrediting agency from approving any new members, citing what department officials characterized as its failure to set clear standards for measuring student learning outcomes and to adequately collect and review data on how its member colleges measure such learning. The freeze permitted the agency to consider members who seek to have an individual program — like an honors’ college — accredited, but bars it from providing the more coveted “institutional” accreditation that carries with it access to federal student aid.

Supporters of the liberal education accreditor, once a darling of conservative commentators on education, argued that it had fallen prey to the department’s push to compel accreditors (and by extension the colleges they accredit) to more rigorously assess and measure the learning outcomes of students. They also suggested that AALE was being held to a higher standard than other agencies, pointing out that the accountability system it adopted was more rigorous than most other non-vocational accrediting agencies....

Peter French launched a broadside at the Rutgers Skill Certification Center. Perhaps if they spelled it "Centre" he would view it in a more positive light ...?

DD Rutgers Skill Certification Center thread

Is it just me or is Peter getting increasingly angry at everything of late? (Except, of course, legitimate assholes like Gollin, Gus, Stalkin' Steve Foerster and Doc Bear.)

Who has aroused cyberstalker George "The Sphincter" Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) this week?  Who has captured The Sphincter's obsessive imagination?  Who does he consider this week's biggest threat to the wealthy higher education cartel that he shills for so mindlessly?  

This week's lucky winner is Homeland Security University:

Quote:The Homeland Security Fantasy University site promises to unveil a network of campuses, but always in the future.

What does Gay Boy Porn Front moderator Bruce Tait think about child rapists?

Quote:To give you an idea of my views on crime and punishment, I believe child rapists/murderers should be pumped full of plasma and amphetamines (to keep them conscious as long as possible), then lowered very slowly, feet-first, into a running wood chipper.

John Bear posted an update on Mark Israel's medical condition, for anyone who actually cares, over at degreeinfo. For those who weren't around back then (I was just a lurker and didn't post), Israel was a nebbish who grew a set of balls while safely sitting at his computer, spouting self-righteous bullshit similar to DesElms and Gus Sainz. His typical post was characterized by savage attacks against those holding different opinions on regional accreditation. However, it was all an act. To those who read his posts, it was painfully obvious that he was just a lackey and toady for Bear who possessed delusions of grandeur that he would one day be acknowledged as a DL expert.

This Bear wannabe ran into some problems (literally) while riding his ten-speed bike 4 years ago. He got waffled by a motor vehicle at an intersction and was seriously injured. It appears that he is on the long road to recovery. Let's just hope he is a nicer person when he comes back to the DL forums than when he was here the first time around.

degreeinfo thread on Mark Israel update

As seen at Inside Higher Ed:
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/17/qt

Quote:A READ.......BETWEEN.......THE.......LINES EXERCISE

“Yueh-Ting Lee has resigned as head of the College of Arts and Sciences... Lee... will “laterally transition” into a newly created administrative position within the Department of Human Resources...”

I do so love the way that was worded.

I note that the words “fired” and “exiled” do not appear. The Dept. of Human Resources as parking lot...

George Gollin, Professor of Physics at University of Illinois, at 10:05 am EDT on July 17, 2008

Quote:A READ.......BETWEEN.......THE.......LINES EXERCISE

George Gollin should stop reading between the lines and start reading the academic policies that require dissertations to be independent work, not the collaboration of 16 co-authors. Read more here: http://www.dltruth.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=18

Melanie Loots, Dean of Discipline at UIUC, at 3:50 pm EDT on July 17, 2008

George Gollin: True or False?


A variety of allegations concerning unsavory conduct by UIUC physics professor George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) have been made here as well as in other public opinion forums.

Most recently a Ripoff Report article on George Gollin surfaced which seemed to summarize these allegations. It apparently was based on a similar article that appeared in Wikipedia, but which was censored by George Gollin himself.

Let's examine these allegations and determine if they are based on fact or simply the work of diploma mill miscreants.

TRUE or FALSE?

Quote:George Gollin is a physics professor who claims to be an 'expert' in non-traditional online education, which he calls 'diploma mills.' In fact Gollin has never taken or taught an online course, knows nothing about non-traditional education, and his only source of any 'expertise' is his own self-serving proclamations.

Quote:A spokesman for Gollin's employer, UIUC, has stated that UIUC does '''not''' view his research into diploma mills as meeting the institution's public-service requirement since the work is not related to physics, his area of expertise. http://chronicle.com/free/2003/10/2003101301t.htm This contradicts Gollin's self-serving statements.

Quote:Ironically, Gollin's own doctoral degree was obtained under suspect circumstances. Gollin submitted as his individual work a doctoral dissertation co-authored with fifteen (15) other people. Princeton's policy concerning doctoral dissertations is that the work must be independent, not collaborative. http://gradschool.princeton.edu/academic...sertation/ Gollin admits his work was collaborative, and hence on its face violative of Princeton's academic policies. Compare Gollin's dissertation with research paper with 16 co-authors.

Quote:Gollin's wife, UIUC administrator Melanie Loots, was cited by federal investigators for her role in selling genetically mutated pork for human food in violation of federal health laws.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3158771/
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/FOI/UIUCLetter.htm

Quote:Via FedEx Mail

Melanie J. Loots
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
601 East John Street,
Swanland MC-304
Champaign, Illinois 61820

Dear Ms. Loots:

We are writing to follow up on an investigation conducted by Mr. Mark G. Peterson from the Chicago District Office and Drs. Amey L. Adams and Michele C. McGuinness from the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) representing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency) at your facility between January 29 and 31, 2003. This inspection was initiated in response to a letter dated October 28, 2002 and signed by investigators Dr. Mathew B. Wheeler and Dr. Sharon M. Donovan. That letter informed the Agency that they had rendered a pig from a study of double transgenic [ redacted ] crossbred pigs. You are the sponsor and monitor of this study.

This study is one of several you are sponsoring that involves transgenic pigs. Dr. Mathew Wheeler, as the Principal Investigator, requested investigative new animal drug exemptions (INADs) from FDA for the conduct of these studies. The studies are: 1) Transgenic pigs that contain [ redacted ] ; 2) Transgenic pigs that contain the [ redacted ] ; and 3) Double transgenic pigs that contain [ redacted ] . These double transgenic pigs were obtained by cross breeding of [ redacted ] transgenic pigs.

FDA regulations for the conduct of studies under INAD are set forth at 21 CFR § 511.1. This rule includes the requirement that study animals may not be used for food without prior FDA authorization. To date, FDA has not permitted genetically engineered animals to be placed into the human food supply. Nevertheless, you released at least 386 pigs from INADs [ redacted ] for sale for slaughter as human food. FDA has only allowed animals from genetic engineering investigations to be rendered for incorporation into animal feed in limited circumstances. These limited circumstances do not include permission to render animals from [ redacted ].

Another requirement of 21 CFR § 511.1 is that the sponsor provide current monitoring of studies. [21 CFR 511.1(b)(8)(ii)]. During the inspection, FDA found no evidence that you provided for monitoring of the investigation. You had no documentation that the University has a formal monitoring program or that the studies conducted by Drs. Matthew B. Wheeler and Sharon M. Donovan were monitored.

This letter serves to remind you that FDA expects documentation of plans regarding the disposition of all investigational animals and that any study that must be under INAD must meet requirements for current sponsor monitoring. It is imperative that all safety regulations be followed scrupulously to help assure the highest level of confidence possible in the conduct of this type of research.

Please direct any written response to:

Vernon D. Toelle, Ph.D., Team Leader BIMO and Administrative Actions Team (HFV-234) Division of Compliance Office of Surveillance and Compliance Center for Veterinary Medicine 7500 Standish Place, Suite E469 Rockville, MD 20855-2773

If you have any questions please feel free to contact either Dr. Vernon D. Toelle at 301-827-0312 or Mr. George A. Prager at 301-827-7791.

Sincerely yours,
Gloria J. Dunnavan Director Division of Compliance (HFV-230)
Office of Surveillance and Compliance
Center for Veterinary Medicine

Quote:Gollin failed to prevent a fellow UIUC professor from engaging in a homosexual relationship with a student, mass murderer [[Steven Kazmierczak]], before Kazmierczak killed five students and wounded more than 15 others.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...2056.story

Quote:When UIUC forced Gollin to remove his offensive website, he sent his scandalous materials to Alan Contreras, an adjudicated civil rights violator and admitted homosexual.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9...9817ed39e0

Quote:Gollin formerly was a prolific (1,280 posts) participant on a discussion forum that was discovered to be a front for pedophile-pandering gay boy pornography.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.educa...90bf3b51ce Gollin stopped posting there but has never made any public statement opposing the website owner's prurient activities.

Quote:Gollin's daughter maintains two filthy internet blogs where she reveals, among other things, that she is a lesbian, that she listens to the 'suck my dick fuck my ass song' with her father George Gollin, and that her mother, UIUC administrator Melanie Loots, refers to Catholics as 'dirty Papists.'
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.educa...39ce6c9405

Quote:Gollin made a public death threat against five people by publishing a document with a rifle sight graphic similar to that used by the [[Zodiac Killer]] adjacent to the names of his intended victims.
http://www.dltruth.com/gollum/george_and_melanie.gif

Janko seems to think that the American Evangelical Christian Churches (AECC) is a crap outfit at Degreediscussion:


(QUOTE)My dear HG:

No, not reflexive anger. I am a disciplined guttersnipe.

Necessarily, you don't know what I've said to Jimmy about the AECC in private. You and I disagree over whether this is "backsliding" on Jimmy's part; you think it is and I don't. Since I believe he has changed, I believe that your retailing of his stuff from years ago was wrong. I do agree with you that AECC is a crap outfit and I told Jimmy so from the git-go. I advised him on this thread that if he were to proceed, he should do so without letting his name be used by these people.

Jimmy also has accepted Bill Grover's rigour challenge; since Bill is a better scholar than either you or I, Bill can hold Jimmy's feet to the fire better than you or I can do.

You have a longstanding bias to knock Christian stuff. (I don't really regard stuff like AECC as Christian at all, only nominally and that by social default alone.) I have very carefully said that biases--yours, mine, whosever--are NO reason to disregard substantive criticisms. Nobody is unbiassed. Period. I did NOT call you names and had no suppressed inclination to do so.

Peter's sermonising is not mine, as you know and as you distinguished. Thank you for that.

Kind regards,
Janko
Doing good, doing well, raising hope and raising hell. Janko Shave. (UNQUOTE)

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...3&start=75

I realize that the Pope thinks I'm going to hell but I know the Pope is going to hell but I don't go out of my way to antagonize Catholics (until now). Why would Janko assume that his odd brand of Lutheranism is the only true way and another church is only a nominally Christian crap oufit? What's wrong with the guy's head? Is this position approved by his own crap outfit church?

George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) being discussed at Ripoff Report:

George Gollin Self-Proclaimed Diploma Mill 'Expert' with PhD Obtained by Academic Fraud

Quote:George Gollin Self-Proclaimed Diploma Mill
Phone: 217-398-3360
Fax:?
813 W UNIVERSITY AVE
Champaign, Illinois, 61820
U.S.A.

Submitted: 7/13/2008 10:36:25 PM
Modified: 7/13/2008 10:36:00 PM
Derek
Cambridge, Massachusetts


George Gollin is a physics professor who claims to be an 'expert' in non-traditional online education, which he calls 'diploma mills.' In fact Gollin has never taken or taught an online course, knows nothing about non-traditional education, and his only source of any 'expertise' is his own self-serving proclamations.

A spokesman for Gollin's employer, UIUC, has stated that UIUC does '''not''' view his research into diploma mills as meeting the institution's public-service requirement since the work is not related to physics, his area of expertise. http://chronicle.com/free/2003/10/2003101301t.htm This contradicts Gollin's self-serving statements.

Ironically, Gollin's own doctoral degree was obtained under suspect circumstances. Gollin submitted as his individual work a doctoral dissertation co-authored with fifteen (15) other people. Princeton's policy concerning doctoral dissertations is that the work must be independent, not collaborative. http://gradschool.princeton.edu/academic...sertation/ Gollin admits his work was collaborative, and hence on its face violative of Princeton's academic policies. Compare Gollin's dissertation with research paper with 16 co-authors.

Gollin's wife, UIUC administrator Melanie Loots, was cited by federal investigators for her role in selling genetically mutated pork for human food in violation of federal health laws.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3158771/
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/FOI/UIUCLetter.htm

Gollin failed to prevent a fellow UIUC professor from engaging in a homosexual relationship with a student, mass murderer [[Steven Kazmierczak]], before Kazmierczak killed five students and wounded more than 15 others.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...2056.story

When UIUC forced Gollin to remove his offensive website, he sent his scandalous materials to Alan Contreras, an adjudicated civil rights violator and admitted homosexual.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0335975P.pdfhttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.education.distance/tree/browse_frm/thread/cc3329b9bb77f985/5ccf17c4690572af?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.education.distance%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fcc3329b9bb77f985%2F27624f9817ed39e0%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3D%26rnum%3D10%26#doc_27624f9817ed39e0

Gollin formerly was a prolific (1,280 posts) participant on a discussion forum that was discovered to be a front for pedophile-pandering gay boy pornography.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.education.distance/tree/browse_frm/thread/88154b736ea79ff6/a6b0f690bf3b51ce?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.education.distance%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F88154b736ea79ff6%2Fa6b0f690bf3b51ce%3F#doc_a6b0f690bf3b51ce

Gollin stopped posting there but has never made any public statement opposing the website owner's prurient activities.

Gollin's daughter maintains two filthy internet blogs where she reveals, among other things, that she is a lesbian, that she listens to the 'suck my dick fuck my ass song' with her father George Gollin, and that her mother, UIUC administrator Melanie Loots, refers to Catholics as 'dirty Papists.'
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.education.distance/tree/browse_frm/thread/6893dc2816566ab9/83dab839ce6c9405?hl=en&rnum=1&q=carp+master+daughter+carpet+muncher&_done=%2Fgroup%2Falt.education.distance%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F6893dc2816566ab9%2F83dab839ce6c9405%3Fhl%3Den%26tvc%3D1%26q%3Dcarp%2Bmaster%2Bdaughter%2Bcarpet%2Bmuncher%26#doc_83dab839ce6c9405

Gollin made a public death threat against five people by publishing a document with a rifle sight graphic similar to that used by the [[Zodiac Killer]] adjacent to the names of his intended victims.
http://www.dltruth.com/gollum/george_and_melanie.gif

BOGUS DISSERTATION!!

IMPROPER COLLABORATION!!!

NOT INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL WORK AS HE REPRESENTED!!!!

ACADEMIC FRAUD!!!!!

GEORGE GOLLIN = ACADEMIC FRAUD

Derek
Cambridge, Massachusetts
U.S.A.