They're from the government and they're here to help you. Sure they are. ICE seems to be hellbent on challenging the IRS as the least trusted federal agency. Fingers crossed that plaintiffs will win.
600 foreign students who enrolled at a Michigan university that turned out to be an immigration sting operation by ICE can sue the government for a refund of their tuition, a federal appeals court ruled on June 25.
Five years ago, the news media publicly exposed the fact that the “University of Farmington” was a sting set up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target “pay-to-stay” student visa fraud.
ICE opened the fake University of Farmington in 2016. As Reason Magazine notes,
Quote: It would ultimately lure in around 600 people on student visas, all of them except one from India, and collect roughly $6 million in tuition and fees from them.
The government claimed that the foreign students were made well aware by recruiters and fake school officials that they were paying for classes and coursework that didn’t exist, but plaintiffs in the lawsuit say they were “unwitting victims,” entrapped by a school that had all the outward appearances of being a legitimate institution.
The university had a website, a regularly updated Facebook page, and a fake history dating back to the 1950s. Records obtained by local news outlets showed Farmington was incorporated by the state of Michigan and listed by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges. More importantly, it was certified by the Department of Homeland Security’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which…is the “ultimate seal of official approval,” for foreign students looking for an American education.
Once exposed, ICE quickly shut down the school and arrested roughly 250 former students. Many were deported, while the rest voluntarily left the country.
On June 25, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government isn’t shielded from a class action lawsuit filed four years ago by Teja Ravi, a former student at the fake “University of Farmington,” because it entered into contracts with hundreds of students like Ravi for services that it never provided.
The ruling overturned a decision two years ago by the Court of Federal Claims that dismissed Ravi’s lawsuit, and sends it back to the Court of Claims for further proceedings. Both the Biden and Trump administrations claimed that sovereign immunity barred Ravi’s suit.
The appeals court judges unanimously ruled that the government was not immune and had not proven its claim that its contract with Ravi wasn’t enforceable because it never intended to honor the agreement in the first place.
“The government relies on the notion that, because it was only pretending to operate a university, there could not have been intent to contract on its part, even though it took (and has kept) the money Mr. Ravi paid for the offered education, and it makes that assertion even accepting the assumption, required at the present stage of the case, that Mr. Ravi intended to obtain the education for which he was paying,” the ruling said. “The argument is that even when there is an objectively clear offer and acceptance, with acceptance in the form of paying money to the offeror, there is no contract enforceable against the offeror, for want of mutuality of intent, as long as the offeror had its fingers crossed behind its back when making the offer and accepting the money.”
Here's an interesting research topic for Rich Douglas in case he looks for another school on-probation for another easy PhD~ If one learns that your alma mater was on probation multiple times due to various accreditation problems which led to its eventual closure, would it be illogical for any human being to question the academic vigor of your degree? And would it be illogical for dumbass morons like Expert Rich Douglas not to defend his...umm...his PhD? Will mark-down degrees like Union limit your career options (i.e. like teaching at the unaccredited (NON-GOLD STANDARD) Virginia Commonwealth University (now called Fairfax)? I wasn't referring to you, Rich.
I think Rich Douglas can also use John Bear's help again, since Bear has first-hand experience as the ex part-owner of the defunct and unaccredited degree mill Columbia Pacific University.
I couldn't help but to notice there are lots of teachers wannabes at degreeinfo.
Here's the psychosis: If you want to teach "one day" your NA degree may limit your "options." Actually, if you want to teach "one day," you first need to have teaching and/or industry experience, which is not something that comes with a RA degree. Thanks faggots.
Unfortunately, an NA degree isn't your cure for delusional problems especially for penis enlarger/vibrator users like Randel1234 and sanantone.
But teach what though? Half of these clowns don't even tell you where they got their high school degrees. Or maybe they can teach people how to end up like faggots Steve Levicoff and Rich Douglas- get a PhD from a bottom-feeder school that's been placed on PROBATION MULTIPLE TIMES and eventually to its final demise- losing regional accreditation (aka the GOLD STANDARD) and closes forever. Phone lines disconnected. CLAP CLAP CLAP
I'm surprised none of the clowns at degreeinfo sent thank you cards to the regional accreditor HLC/Higher Learning Commission (THE GOLD STANDARD) for shutting down UNION HIGH- something that should've been done decades ago.
For Rich Douglas, it's a particular sad case because his DOCTOR OF SCIENCE DocSc from University of Leicester wasn't rated as an American doctorate. Apparently when he called WES he had an attidude (depression from hairloss) with the gay boy who answered the phone.
When gay boys Rich Douglas and Steve Levicoff (RA or the highway...oops...I meant toilet bowl for Union) still had their PhDs from a college that wasn't closed by authorities, there was a lot talk on academic quality. This is when SANANTONE comes in- the QUALITY ADVOCATE. I don't know what kind of degrees sanantone has. I'm guessing she must have earned her Bachelor's in Degreeinfo from years of extensive typing. Heck, I think anything other that Union High is better at this point.
Legitimate, regionally-accredited/GOLD STANDARD schools do not get placed on probation by their accreditor time after time. In 2002, Union Institute & University's PhD program came under scrutiny by the Ohio Board of Regents. Union underwent major academic and structural changes, including the dissolution of Union Graduate School and restructuring of its PhD programs. The PhD in Arts and Sciences, for example, was redesigned as a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, with four majors: Ethical and Creative Leadership, Public Policy and Social Change, Humanities and Culture, and Educational Studies.
In 2004, the US Dept. of Education also raised concerns about the quality of the Union's PhD programs specifically. Sorry Rich, it's easy to blame everything on the Union President but this is obviously nothing new. Regardless Rich, sorry I had to scrutinize your PhD and you don't have to defend it.
As an aside, Texas is not a forgiving state. It's actually a learning state. When I emailed Texas Higher Education Board many years ago, they told me they had never suggested any DEAC or ACCSC programs were "inferior." They were very frank (Texas style), and told me their Governor wanted all degree mills out of his state and the fastest way to achieve this was through a blanket policy- regional accreditation (which have since changed and loud and clear on national accreditation). I also asked if CCU made any changes to its programs to meet the Texas requirements. The response I got was a chuckle, as if I was stupid that a school will modify all its programs to meet the requirement of one state.
No offense, sanantone, I didn't mean to bring up your vibrator. Time to get a bf.
I saw Rich Douglas was helplessly defending Union (and the quality of his "PhD") since we know Union isn't exactly a good boy when it was placed on probation by the same accreditor (The Higher Learn Commission/HLC) many years ago.
I also remember Mr. Douglas' "Doctor of Science" degree was rated as a Master's degree only by a credential evaulator.
This must really suck for him since the DEAC-accredited schools supposed to close first. Are there any ways we can help out the Union people? Are there any teach-out programs? I'm wondering if schools like California Myramar Univeristy would accept their students? Like sanantone and other super-capable individuals I am focused on academic quality only. You know what I mean and I certainly don't want to see any substandard Union graduates/students flowing around and defending their degrees.
Former UC Irvine professor Dr. Peter K. Navarro is now a political prisoner of the Biden junta. If you wish to send a letter/note of encouragement to him in prison, here’s the address:
PETER K NAVARRO
(04370-510)
15801 S.W. 137TH AVENUE
MIAMI, FL 33177
At least sixteen universities are promoting the book “How to Blow Up A Pipeline,” which outlines for readers how to commit eco-terrorism — oftentimes making it required reading, a Daily Wire investigation found.
The book was published in 2021 by Swedish professor Andreas Malm and calls for terrorism and overthrowing capitalism, acknowledging that people will be killed as a result. “Demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed,” the book says.
Now multiple state-funded universities took classes that were nominally on unrelated topics, and contorted them into courses that read just four books, including the pipeline manifesto and a communist manifesto. At the University of California-Berkeley, for example, students of Geography & Interactive Biology were required to read the book. Instructors Jake Kosek and Paul Fine took what was ostensibly a biology course and transformed it into one on “decolonization.” The syllabus states that the “class focuses on the scientific practice of modern botanical taxonomy as a colonial formation that conditions our modern relations” and how the names of plants “were often forged to be of service to empire-building.”
The lessons across the country suggest that universities’ support for terrorism extends beyond the students supporting Hamas on many campuses. In fact, the book looks to Palestinian terrorists for inspiration, advising that, “As part of the mass resistance in the besieged Gaza Strip in the spring of 2018, Palestinians invented techniques for sending kites and helium-inflated condoms carrying incendiary materials across the wall to burn Israeli property.”
U.S. intelligence identified the book as a “developing threat” and security risk because “Malm encourages pipeline sabotage and property destruction.” Twenty-three government agencies, including the FBI, warned that the film adaptation of the book, released in 2023, could spark terrorism.
A New York Times interviewer was taken aback at Malm’s willingness to cause death. “It’s hard to think that deaths don’t become inevitable if there is more sabotage,” the interviewer said.
“Sure, if you have a thousand pipeline explosions per year, if it takes on that extreme scale. But we are some distance from that, unfortunately,” Malm answered.
“Don’t say ‘unfortunately,’” the interviewer interjected.
“Well, I want sabotage to happen on a much larger scale than it does now. I can’t guarantee that it won’t come with accidents,” Malm replied.
Malm said he hasn’t had the opportunity to blow up a pipeline personally but that he would “gladly participate” if given the opportunity.
“If I were part of a group where something like blowing up a pipeline was perceived as a tactic that could be useful for our struggle, then I would gladly participate,” he said. “I have engaged in as much militant climate activism as I have had access to” and “I’ve done things that I can’t tell you or that I wouldn’t tell others publicly.”
He said he trained his four-year-old son to “be on the lookout for S.U.V.s” because the child “knows these are the bad cars” and has “an awareness of the tactic of deflating S.U.V. tires.”
His own children were not the only youth being inculcated with an ideology of destruction.
In Spring 2022, City University of New York professor Joseph Mohorcich required students to read the book as part of a course called Politics and Human Survival, which persuaded students that without radical action, “everyone could die a terrible death.” Students were also required to read “Revolutionary Suicide” by Black Panthers member Huey Newton, who was accused of murder and rape. Mohorcich wrote a paper called “What level of resistance to air pollution is justified? On violence and self-defense.”
Arizona State University, a public university, required students of Professor Mina Suk’s “Are Humans Special? Environmental Theory” to read “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” that same semester.
The University of California, San Diego required it in a class taught by Professor of Environmental Physics Brad Werner called “CGS 110 Intersectional Struggles for Environmental Justice.” The course says it focuses on “Colonial, capitalist and imperialist exploitation of and damage to the environment” and how “resistance developed,” using “Critical Gender Studies Frameworks.” It includes “role-play exercises and simulations of exploitive/extractive-resistance movement systems.” Werner once argued for “sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups” because the Earth was “f**ked.”
The University of Washington required it in “Special Topics in Rights,” where Professor of Political Science Jamie Mayerfeld asks, “Does capitalism help or hinder responsible climate policy? Is socialism a better way?” On the syllabus under the heading “What Should Activists Do?” is “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” Only four other books are required; one is How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century and another is A Planet to Win: The Case for a Green New Deal.
At Illinois State University, students in an English class are required to read only four books, one of which is “How To Blow Up a Pipeline.” Another is a book on Marxism by Friedrich Engels, whom Vladimir Lenin called “the finest scholar and teacher of the modern proletariat.” Professor Christopher Breu describes capitalism as “cancerous” and “violence.”
Next semester, Ohio State University may change the title of “Environmental Citizenship” to “Climate Justice,” and require students to read the book as one of only four required readings. Another of the four is “Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards The Idea of Degrowth Communism.” That book, sold for $110, argues for making Western countries poorer.
The course will no longer focus on “interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment,” but instead on “political strategies for climate change” and “capitalism.” Professor Joel Wainwright warns ominously that “The carbon profiteers hope you fail to connect the dots,” and argues for overthrowing not only capitalism, but also the concept of sovereign rule.
Wainwright, a geography professor, is the author of Rethinking Palestine and Israel: Marxist Perspectives. In his book “Climate Leviathan,” he praised “the most radical strategies of the climate justice movement” and called for “revolutionary events” overthrowing the U.S. government as well as that of China, because China is too “capitalist.”
A spokesman for Ohio State said the course “is not listed for summer or autumn 2024,” though the change request form says “Autumn semester 2023 Tuesday & Thursday, 9:35-10:55 A.M.” and is listed as having been approved at every level except one, with the final one pending.
None of the other universities responded to requests for comment.
The Department of Homeland Security defines terrorism as any act that “is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources.”
A new link sheds further light on the role of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and the cabal of “bishops” who manipulated Lee Oswald as the Texas School Book Depository patsy on November 22, 1963.
Needless to say, oil magnate D.H. Byrd factors in every JFK assassination narrative: at the time of the president’s murder, he was the owner of the actual building at 411 Elm St., where the Texas School Book Depository leased space.
Moreover, students of the assassination know of Byrd’s high-ranking association with CAP. This is of interest since Oswald joined a Louisiana CAP squadron as a teenager in the 1950s. On the surface, it appears only a coincidence that this ex-cadet would spend his final days working in a building owned by a significant figure in CAP history.
But a newly uncovered connection suggests it is not out of the realm of possibility CAP doubled as a recruitment front for suspected assassination plotters like David Ferrie, Oswald’s squadron leader in 1955.
On July 1, 1946, CAP was incorporated by an act of Congress; D. Harold Byrd is named Texas wing commander. The Illinois wing commander is one Gordon A. DaCosta. Within a few short years, DaCosta would face charges of allegedly misusing $50,000 of CAP federal funds. Deposed from his rank in CAP, DaCosta reconstituted himself as a pseudo-academic. DaCosta created the unaccredited Indiana Northern University on a former dairy farm in Gas City, IN, halfway between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. He named himself president and chancellor.
DaCosta, right, ousted Illinois Wing Commander of CAP, president of fake Indiana Northern University, and future bishop in pseudo-church that included David Ferrie, Jack Martin, and Guy Banister
In other words, DaCosta entered the idiosyncratic world of the diploma mills, fake schools that distributed diplomas and degrees for a price. Indiana Northern University affiliated itself with a similar outfit, Philathea Bible College of London, Ontario. Philathea’s president was Benjamin C. Eckardt. It was not uncommon for con artists in the fake pseudo-academic racket to dabble as quasi-religious figures in obscure micro-churches. Such a title as “the Most Reverend” or “Archbishop” coupled with “Doctor” or “Professor” could only enhance the prestige of the “school” that was their livelihood.
Eckardt, for instance, was deemed the archbishop of Ontario in the Free Protestant Episcopal Church. DaCosta, too, saw value in such a racket. In 1971, DaCosta himself became a bishop in the same church as Eckardt.
If one drills down further, these strange worlds provide cover for such nefarious dealings as smuggling contraband, selling counterfeit securities, traveling under phony passports as fake missionaries or ambassadors. Still more troubling, one could hide in plain sight as a cleric or academic while harboring criminals, assassins, and conspirators of coup d’etats.
What all this boils down to is this: DaCosta affiliated himself in the same church synod as Oswald’s mentor, David Ferrie. The bridge, ultimately, is Christopher Maria C.J. Stanley, archbishop in the American Orthodox Catholic Church who consecrated Ferrie, Jack Martin, Guy Banister and others in Banister’s office into his church in 1961.
This strand of the clerical network, then, goes from a disgraced former CAP Illinois Wing Commander (DaCosta), who was a co-CAP incorporator with Texas commander D.H. Byrd, through a very small and esoteric strand of the Old Roman Catholic Church to David Ferrie and the CAP Louisiana squadron at Moisant Airport, of which Oswald was a cadet under Ferrie, and finally to the Texas School Book Depository, owned by Byrd.
It should be noted that this vast network that involved DaCosta, Stanley and Ferrie, leads to affiliations under the umbrella of the radical right wing: white Russians (Zhurawetsky), anti-communists (Propheta), right-wing generals (Willoughby) and colonels (Fuge), John Birch Society members (F.C. King), occult practitioners (de Witow), and hypnotherapists — DaCosta and Ferrie, included. It is no secret, of course, that hypnotism hovers over the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK.
Moreover, on April 1, 1959, General McElroy became the National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol. In January 1960, Ferrie was appointed aide to McElroy. At this very time, Byrd is the Chairman of the CAP National Executive Board, from April 1959-April 1960. That Ferrie, as McElroy’s aide, interacted with Byrd during this time seems a foregone conclusion. Also during this time, Oswald defects to Russia. In 1961, Ferrie is arrested on his morals charge; in November of 1961, Ferrie is consecrated bishop by Stanley. After JFK’s assassination, Stanley will tell authorities Ferrie and Martin told him of a plan to assassinate Kennedy, a full two years before the ambush in Dealey Plaza.
Ferrie, right, was aide to National Commander of the Civil Air Patrol, General McElroy, left, at the time D.H. Byrd is Chairman of the CAP National Executive Board
There is, of course, more to unpack and probe in this regard, but given the research into this world of faux-bishops who aligned politically with the radical right, I am confident that the DaCosta-Byrd association as high commanders in the Civil Air Patrol, the same outfit that attracted the likes of Ferrie, Oswald, Barry Seal, and other adventurers, will only reveal in due time that bad actors in the Civil Air Patrol utilized its function to recruit young American patriots willing to preserve their white Christian country against the onslaught of godless communists.
Top photo: David Ferrie, with helmet, oversees a squadron of cadets which included Lee Oswald, far right. Below, left, Texas Wing Commander of CAP, D.H. Byrd, owner of the Texas School Book Depository, right, where ex-CAP cadet Oswald worked for five weeks until November 22, 1963.
The burning dumpster fire that was Union Institute & University is about to be extinguished. Once sarcastically dubbed by one commenter as "the Union Finishing School," the alma mater of such luminaries as Rich "Mini Me" Douglas and Steve Levijerkoff is now itself finished.
Students and employees getting screwed over? HLC may look into it, when they find the time. Annual accrediting dues not paid? HLC on the war path!
Union Institute & University headquarters in Walnut Hills.
Union Institute & University's days may be numbered after losing its access to federal financial aid on Monday and receiving a nearly $4.3 million fine from the U.S. Department of Education for several violations.
Earlier this month, the Department of Education informed Union Institute it would take emergency action and terminate the school's eligibility to participate in federal aid programs. That means all students attending the university will have to pay out of pocket to stay enrolled. Schools that have received a similar penalty — like ITT Technical Institute — closed soon after. Union Institute had the opportunity to appeal the emergency action and fine by this Monday, but the department has not yet said if the university has done so.
The department claims immediate action became necessary to prevent further misuse of funds after it analyzed multiple complaints from students and staff along with documents provided by Union Institute.
According to a letter sent by the department to Union Institute & University President Karen Schuster Webb, the school committed "serious, ongoing violations of Title IV regulations," including using federal student aid money to pay off delinquent debts.
The letter goes on to describe the poor financial and educational conditions at the university, calling Union Institute's handling of federal dollars an "egregious failure to protect UIU students' Title IV funds."
Union Institute has not held classes for undergraduate students this fall due to a lack of money and staff. Some students in the school's graduate and Ph.D. programs have been able to continue working on their degrees because all communication with instructors happens online. Still, based on this information, the Department of Education says due to widespread resignations among faculty and in its business office, Union has stopped providing many, if not all, the educational services and instruction promised to students.
No employees have been paid since August and the school owes nearly $450,000 in back rent for its headquarters in Walnut Hills. Employees say Union Institute was first locked out of its headquarters in August and were officially evicted from the building recently.
More than $753,000 in federal dollars is owed to 157 students which Union has apparently been unable to pay because it neglected to properly identify accounts containing federal funds. Because of Union's debt, a third party placed a lien on UIU's bank account, taking $200,000 worth of federal money intended for students.
On top of all this, Union Institute has not paid its annual dues to its accrediting agency, the High Learning Commission (HLC).
In early October, the HLC sent a letter to Union informing the school that it was not in compliance with the "obligations of membership," because of their inability to respond to complaints submitted against the institution.
Union Institute was also required to submit a provisional teach-out plan so students could transfer their credits to other schools, but it also failed to do this as well.
HLC's website shows the Union Institute is still an accredited university, though its status is still up for review. The accrediting agency went over the school's finances in late October to determine whether to change its status. A spokesperson for HLC says this process can take several months.
Union Institute & University's website is still inviting students to apply for its next term set to begin in January 2024, though students and staff who have spoken with WVXU expressed little confidence this will actually happen.
For now, faculty say they're demanding university leadership make a definitive decision about the upcoming term and present a teach-out plan by Dec. 1 so students can more easily transfer.
As many students await such a plan from the university, others who are close to finishing their degrees tell WVXU they plan on finishing their programs before the end of the year. Whether they'll actually receive a diploma from Union Institute remains to be seen.
Online learning has revolutionized higher education, but a recent move by the federal Department of Education is threatening to tear down systems that are helping millions of students learn.
An extremely wide diversity of students choose to take online courses or to get entire online degrees. Colleges that offer them need to be nimble as the economy changes, yet traditional colleges are slow to change, and they often lack the expertise and funding to develop and manage online courses independently.
That’s a key reason online program management companies have sprung up to serve the need, working with colleges to help students.
Yet the Department of Education, apparently allergic to profit of any kind, earlier this year swept online program management companies and a vast array of other providers into its “third-party servicer” rule, promising a heavy-handed regulatory regime.
The problem is that Congress clearly described what a third-party servicer is, but the Department of Education does not like to stay within the law. The latter specifies that a third-party servicer only includes those that help with “student assistance programs”; that is, with managing students’ financial aid.
The department now argues that even providing a course counts, since a student might get financial aid to take the course. A recruiting service that also notes the existence of financial aid also would count.
All of that is an arbitrary modification of the law to attack online program management companies.
Even worse, the department announced this major change, sweeping a new set of companies into regulation, without actually regulating or negotiating. The department just issued a notice.
The backlash was swift and furious, so the department voided the effective date. That means the new definition of a third-party servicer is still the official position of the department, but it’s not being enforced. At any moment, the department could decide it’s ready to move forward to throttle online program management companies and many others in higher education.
The department’s move is likely to increase students’ costs and stifle innovation in postsecondary education.
More and more prospective students are choosing alternatives to a traditional bachelor’s degree, determining that its benefits are not worth the rapidly rising cost. Traditional colleges are keeping up by offering online courses or sub-degree programs. But burdening them with new regulatory compliance costs will divert resources from students to administrators.
Additionally, one-size-fits-all federal regulations are ill-suited to the rapid innovation in postsecondary education, which is increasing access, improving the educational experience, and reducing costs for millions of students nationwide.
Frankly, no federal agency is nimble enough to keep up with the sector’s rapid innovation. Therefore, the best way to help students is to stay out of the way.
Furthermore, interfering with the freedom to contract in education will limit the sector and ultimately diminish options for students.
Online program management companies have been one of America’s greatest innovations for providing scalable, low-cost college access. They would hardly have been possible without freedom to contract, innovate, and adapt outside of burdensome government oversight.
Indeed, colleges’ contracts with online program management companies tend to use revenue sharing, which helps institutions transfer financial risk to their online program management partners while these companies devote large sums to capital investment.
This model enables less-resourced institutions to enter the market, compete, and maybe save themselves from bankruptcy. Without online program management companies, less well-resourced institutions with larger numbers of nontraditional students will be left further and further behind.
The Department of Education should stick with its narrow authority under the law—no more and no less. That means withdrawing the new definition entirely.
The department needs to learn that profit is not scary. To the contrary, private enterprise through voluntary exchange makes all parties better off.
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