Quote:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Executive Of Axact In $140 Million Diploma Mill Scam

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, [et al], announced today the filing of a criminal Complaint charging UMAIR HAMID, a/k/a "Shah Khan," a/k/a the "Shah," with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with a worldwide "diploma mill" scheme that collected at least approximately $140 million from tens of thousands of consumers. As alleged, HAMID and his co-conspirators made false and fraudulent representations to consumers on websites and over the phone to trick them into enrolling in purported colleges and high schools, and issued fake diplomas upon receipt of upfront fees from consumers. HAMID was arrested on December 19, 2016, and was presented yesterday in federal court in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. . . .

Quote:There were also significant contributions to the investigation and prosecution by Gus Sainz and his team at Degreediscussion.com.

Hell... I logged in on BOYFUNK (I have a five year platinum membership that costed me nothing thanks to Chip) and here comes this stuff in a pop-up...
I am in deep shock...
Not only Trump won...now this...
Help!

Quote:President Trump Needs to Break the Back of the Education Cartel

Bruce Bialosky
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Posted: Nov 07, 2016 12:01 AM



The teachers and professors of America have gone from an underpaid lot to one of the most powerful lobbying forces in America. They have a stranglehold on our educational system from kindergarten through post-graduate degrees creating the Education Cartel. Of the many important challenges a President Trump would face -- ISIS, rebuilding our economy and our healthcare system -- none is more important than taking back control of our education system from these elitists and reorganizing it to serve the customers (students) and their parents.

The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are a major element of the Democratic Party and key supporters of Ms. Clinton. The NEA endorsed her in October of 2015. In the past two presidential elections they averaged $24 million in expenditures, and that does not include the in-kind contributions of turning their offices into Clinton campaign headquarters. The AFT has an entire section on their website for Clinton.

The reason these organizations are so supportive of Clinton is she will maintain the status quo. That is that the estimated four million members of these two organizations are more important than the customers they serve. Their unions collect forced dues and spend that to elect city council members, school board members, state legislators and members of Congress to protect inflated compensation and benefits. Yes, it is a myth that teachers are underpaid compared to other professions.

The policies put in place have lowered the education results of American students to depressing levels. You have all seen the international surveys. The school systems in major cities would be considered racist if not run by Democrats. Their focus is serving the adults instead of the students, destroying the futures of millions of young Americans.

Take for example that 75% of Germany's population has taken part in their vocational training system. Canada rewards students at the high school level for their results in vocational training. America has a non-existent vocational system that leaves the 75% of Americans without bachelor degrees no path to a fruitful career. There is zero emphasis on changing this because it is not a priority of the Education Cartel.

The Education Cartel has a stranglehold on the schools of America. This forces parents to either relocate, send their children to religious schools of faiths they don't observe to obtain an education, or pray they win a lottery for a charter school that the Education Cartel fights with the force of the Allied forces against the Nazis.

The Education Cartel does not stop when students graduate from high school (if they do graduate). The upper division of the Cartel kicks in once a student decides to further his or her education attempting to obtain a college degree which for many will provide an expensive certificate on the path to bankruptcy.

A college education is fast becoming the opposite of the road to a better future. The reason is the immense cost of college education that has caused recent students to rack up over $1 trillion of debt.

That would make sense if the students graduated with worthy degrees instead of many times students getting degrees aimed at becoming a bartender. This is why our tech companies fight each year to obtain H-1B visas to bring in foreigners to fill jobs. This is why our politicians fight to attach permanent work visas to foreign students graduating with STEM degrees. Where are the Americans?

When my son was starting college, we looked at him getting a degree in Sports Administration. He had a position working for the athletic director at the University of Kansas. That is when we found out there were 195 college programs offering degrees in this major. The athletic director suggested my son get a business degree if he wanted to work for him. That is when I came to the conclusion that closest the vast majority of students graduating with degrees in this major will come to sports administration is working at a Foot Locker. These students are being deceived and robbed of their futures.

But the college division of the Education Cartel doesn't feel it is enough that they drive the college students of America into debt while they try to earn largely useless degrees. The Cartel has to crush the for-profit college competition.

Recently the Obama Administration destroyed ITT which had 130 campuses in 38 states serving 40,000 students. Schools like ITT don't serve high school valedictorians, but they do serve many students seeking a future career. Some students just don't make it. These schools are not Cal Tech.

ITT was forced out of business despite performing better than the community colleges in the areas they served -- many with graduation rates 25% higher. Community colleges serve a fine purpose and I personally am a proud graduate of one, but ITT was out performing them and better at preparing locals students for their future.

And why was this done? Just like the Education Cartel does not want charter schools, they want to destroy the for-profit colleges. They want no competition so they can continue their underperforming monopoly while they line their own pockets and increase the flow of money to themselves unabated and unquestioned.

Trump has stated he will "provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America." That is a beginning. The amazing thing is that the people who defend the current system call him a racist while they defend the system they created. He will have the power to influence the current K-12 system as the federal government provides $50 billion. Maybe he can focus them on educating students instead of discussing lavatories.

He has spoken about the soaring cost of colleges. Previously this columnist wrote about a U.S. Senate hearing that addressed costs at for-profit colleges. Maybe there will now be serious hearings about the 500% increase of "non-profit" college costs since 1985. After all, President Obama has been writing off college loans, in effect, underwriting these "non-profit" institutions where the staff works light schedules and presidents make $2 million.

Ms. Clinton has made clear she is beholden to the Education Cartel and will do little to change things as she basks in their adoration. Trump is our hope for a change of path from that which wastes billions and more importantly destroys the future of millions of American children.

It is time the Education Cartel is brought to its knees.

Quote:How to Make Higher Education Affordable

17 hours ago Jason Morgan

Assuming state legislatures find the political will to defund courses on pornography, and the Congress ends the student-loan crony capitalism bonanza, what would a world of privatized universities look like? It could look very good, it turns out.

First of all, without subsidization, very few students are likely to pay out of their own pockets for useless degrees. Without a guaranteed flow of subsidies, the vast majority of non-STEM departments will, finally, close down. The universities—which have become a kind of large-scale government welfare program employing scholars who receive taxpayer funds to write articles about HBO and “audience studies” — would either go into receivership or else break up into smaller units, with the profitable ones (most likely engineering and the like) remaining in business. The hopeless ones (English, anthropology, all of the various “studies”) will finally give up the ghost.

Prices Will Fall to Meet Demand

This will be a good thing for college students and their parents. Without the artificial demand generated through taxpayer-funded subsidies, universities will be forced to lower their tuition prices to meet what students and their families are able and willing to pay. This new reality will force higher education institutions to adapt to the needs of students. Universities will become more inclined to allow for students to choose the courses they most want to take, without having to pad their studies with subjects extraneous to their chosen careers.

The accrediting agencies won’t like this, but ideally, the accrediting agencies will go out of business. In a world where accredited universities offer courses on pop music and television shows, the function of ensuring employers that students at institutions of higher learning are receiving a rigorous education has apparently slipped from the accrediting agencies’ grasp.

To make higher education work better for both employers and students, however, it will be necessary to first overturn any court case which makes it difficult for employers to test applicants in the skills needed for a particular industry.

Matching Up Students With Employers

As it is, most students now are in four- or two-year colleges simply for the sake of gaining entry into white-collar work. The disconnect between what students actually study and what they eventually end up doing has been a stock joke of American life for decades now.

Colleges today function as a non-specific government-subsidized screening method for many employers. But, to make the process far less expensive for both students and taxpayers, employers need only screen applicants as rigorously as they like through private testing and on-the-job experience.

Indeed, four or more years of sleeping through early-morning Spanish classes is less indicative of success in an office than is actually working in an office for that same amount of time. Those who fail employment tests could take exactly the courses they need to pass, and could skip the expense and the wasted time of slogging through Ottoman history in order to be deemed qualified to work on an oil rig.

Freeing Up Resources for Better Research

Many will object that this is anti-intellectual, but the contrary is true. There are serious scholars remaining in American academia today, but their work is hamstrung by administrative duties, endless faculty meetings, and increasingly, the looming threat of Title IX law suits hanging like swords of Damocles over their heads.

The solution is a system of private entrepreneurship. After all, private wealthy donors already give millions of dollars annually to university endowments. There is no reason — other than government regulations — why donors could not give the money directly to the professors, instead. If tax monies must be used for anything, let it be to stock and maintain libraries. For everything else, let the professors — the ones who know more about their subjects than anyone else — do whatever donors will allow them to do. If this includes giving lectures, that is all the better. Professors with a nice sinecure from a wealthy magnate would, in many cases, be able to give lectures for free. (This includes professors hired to do STEM research in a corporate setting. Free lectures by top researchers would be a perfect marketing tool to enhance a corporate brand.) And, if a professor’s honorarium were too high, then students would simply choose not to attend, or else find a similar version online or in person.

Far from being anti-intellectual, this model would free researchers to engage in pure intellectual discovery, undisturbed by the swarms of degree-seekers who are literally forced to take classes in subjects they despise merely for the sake of preserving the fiction that everyone benefits equally from attendance at a university. Relieved of the drudgery that ensues when the masses are made to endure education against their will, professors would be able to think, write, and say whatever their funders are willing to tolerate.

Releasing hordes of uninterested undergraduates to do something besides nap in calculus lectures all day would hardly be a fatal blow to calculus itself. The study of Jane Austen, algorithms, and asteroids would flourish without having to justify those subjects to bored, indebted, surly teenagers.

All of this will free up monies for students who do choose to spend a few years in serious study to enjoy all of the current perks of college life — and many more — at a fraction of the cost. If, for example, a student were able to take lectures for $3,000 a year instead of $30,000, then he or she could easily work part time, and pay his or her tuition. Professors could issue certificates of attendance at their lectures, or could give tests if they chose to and grade students however they pleased.

As things now stand, students, their parents, and the taxpayers of each state are being bilked out of billions of dollars a year. Administrators grow rich, universities run real professors out of their jobs in order to save money by hiring adjuncts, and students shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars each that could be kept in their pockets or else put toward learning what they want to learn. There are few outside of academia itself — and the financial sector that funds students loans — who benefit from our whirlpooling student debt. It is long past time to let the free market back into our universities and, finally, put their houses in order.

Jason Morgan is a 2016 Mises Institute Fellow and is studying history at the University of Wisconsin.

What does unethical George Gollin wish for on Amazon? A wallet, and a wallet, and another wallet! He's got so much money he can't keep it all in just one wallet. After pissing away half a million dollars on his laughably unsuccessful congressional campaign, he still needs three more wallets just to carry all his filthy lucre.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishl...HU3O5X1KQS



Has Unethical George Gollin finally figured it out? Not likely.

Too much of a joke even for lefty libtard Minnesota, even if under the radar at the "gold standard" regional accreditor.

Quote:Oct 6 2016, 5:18 pm ET
For-Profit Walden U., Once Tied to Bill Clinton, Put Under Review
by Anna R. Schecter

Minnesota education officials have launched a review of online PhD programs at a for-profit college with ties to former President Bill Clinton.

"We have seen an increased number of complaints related to dissertations at Walden University," Sandy Connolly of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education told NBC News.


Inside Bill Clinton's Lucrative Work With For-Profit Education Company 3:54

The review follows an NBC News report on Minneapolis-based Walden, including interviews with some students who felt victimized by its practices and were saddled with large student loans.

Related: Hillary Blasts For-Profit College, but Bill Took Millions from One

Walden is the U.S. flagship of Laureate Education, which paid "honorary chancellor" Bill Clinton $17.6 million over five years before he stepped down in 2015 just ahead of wife Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign run.

Elizabeth Talbot, manager of Institutional Legislation and Licensing at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, said the agency is conducting "a qualitative and a quantitative analysis" of student complaints and comparing it to Walden's marketing materials.

"I want to make sure the proof is in the pudding that their marketing claims match with student outcome," Talbot said.

"Is it a policy issue, a culture issue or is it something more nefarious? And we don't know until we complete the program review."

She said that after the NBC News report in August, there was an increase in the number of individuals contacting her office and the state Attorney General's office about Walden.

Some of the Walden students interviewed by NBC claimed they were misled about how long it would take to get a dissertation approved and earn a doctorate and ended up with more debt than they anticipated.

Minnesota officials did not provide any details of the complaints it received, but Connolly said that based on the "number of nature" of them, "we are conducting a full program review of all online doctorate programs."

Dr. Kevin Kinser, head of Penn State's Department of Education and Policy Studies, said Minnesota's action is not surprising.

"What we've seen is state-level oversight, particularly of online, for-profit higher education, has become more robust — even more robust than the federal government, and certainly more than the accrediting agencies," Kinser said.

A spokesperson for Walden declined to comment.

While Bill Clinton has earned $22 million from for-profit education institutions — $17.6 of that from Laureate — his wife has been a vocal critic of for-profit schools, including her opponent's Trump University.

"Hillary Clinton has made it clear that all for-profit institutions should be held to the same standards and she will crack down on law-breaking for-profits by expanding support for federal regulators to enforce laws against deceptive marketing, fraud, and other illegal practices," a spokesman said in August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTwp0vnbbo

Cenk Uygur is right here. This guy needs to go underground and keep a low profile. The dude need therapy or something. AND he is running around lecturing kids on drinking?

Jezus!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXplixDoZEE

http://www.indystar.com/videos/news/2016.../89933950/

Financial concerns are cited for the reason why. I feel a great deal of sadness to hear that this school which provided education to thousands is now out of business for good.

Particularly I am concerned about the students who are being left high and dry.