The headline on this isn't exactly correct. He didn't "expose" the vandals, for their names already had been released by the school. They admitted they had vandalized a pro-life display after they were identified by security cameras. The student posted their names on the YAF website.

Oddly enough, DePaul is at least nominally a Catholic school, so you really wonder who is running the asylum. Has libtard orthodoxy replaced Catholic doctrine? This schmuck dean of students Munin guy looks like a pure leftist douchebag, with all his self promotion and "social justice" claptrap.

Quote:Pro-Life Student Sanctioned at DePaul University for Exposing Vandals


by Dr. Susan Berry 2 Mar 2013

The head of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at [regionally accredited] DePaul University is facing expulsion after he released the names of vandals who destroyed a pro-life flag display.

Kristopher Del Campo, the chairman of the conservative student organization, has been sanctioned by the university after having being charged for violating DePaul’s Code of Student Responsibility and found guilty on two counts: Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating, or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others, and Judicial Process Compliance.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in January, Del Campo, a 23-year old psychology major, and other students were granted permission from the university to build a pro-life display that featured 500 flags. However, vandals destroyed the display and stuffed some of the flags into trash cans.

A university investigation released the names of 13 students who admitted to the vandalism following identification by security cameras. Del Campo then listed the names of the vandals on the YAF website, an action that led to the posting of negative comments directed at the vandals. As a result, the university held Del Campo responsible for the comments, claiming he placed these students “at substantial risk of physical harm.”

“Instead of supporting a student whose free speech rights were violated, DePaul University bullied Kristopher Del Campo for daring to expose the 13 vandals,” said Ron Robinson, YAF’s Foundation President. “They put him through a Soviet-style show trial.”

According to YAF, Del Campo was not permitted counsel at the university tribunal that convicted him.

Other free speech groups have lent support to Del Campo.

“The 13 DePaul students named in the public safety report admitted not only to vandalizing YAF’s display but also planning to do so,” wrote Pete Bonilla, of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in a letter to DePaul’s president. “Students who purposefully vandalize the works of other students should not expect to be shielded from the public consequences of their actions.”

Del Campo, who is about to graduate, has been told by the DePaul Dean of Students that he could be expelled.

“It is unfortunate that this incident is part of your educational career,” wrote Dean Art Murin [sic, Munin]. “Any further infractions of the Code of Student Responsibility during your probationary period may result in additional disciplinary action including removal from the university.”

Del Campo has said that, even though he was warned by [Munin] not to fight the university, he plans to do so.

“This is wrong,” Del Campo told Fox News. “This university has a problem with free speech rights and this time they met a challenger who is not backing down.”

TESC--the alma mater of such lesser lights as Goose Sainz and Sodomite Steve Levicoff.

TESC--undergrad units not accepted for admission at such places as UCLA grad school.

TESC--there's a reason why they call it one of the Easy Three.

But...TESC is RA, so FWIW...

Quote:College's $99 online courses could signal shift in cost trend
Thursday, February 21, 2013
BY PATRICIA ALEX

It's a bargain: $99 to earn three credits at a state university.

Thomas Edison State College announced Wednesday that it is partnering with an online provider to offer access to six free college courses that, for the cost of a $99 test, can each translate into credit toward an undergraduate degree.

The initiative is unique — the college, based in Trenton, is the first in the state and one of the first in the nation to allow degree-seeking students to capitalize on the growth in so-called massive open online courses.

The move may also signal the beginning of a shift that could help to reverse a decade of hyper-inflation in college costs.

"Potentially, this could mean significant savings for students," said Devon Ritter, special project administrator at the Saylor Foundation, the non-profit group that developed the courses that Thomas Edison will offer. "We still need more institutional buy-in [from schools], but this is a start."

Online education has been around for more than a decade and has long held out the promise of providing broad access at low cost. But many schools have been slow to embrace it and, for the most part, students get no discount for online credits.

The explosive growth last year of massive open online courses — many of which are taken by people who already have bachelor's degrees — has spurred a debate in higher education as to how the model could be used by those seeking undergraduate degrees.

"It was really students starting the conversation of what can I get for these courses," said Cathy Sandeen, vice president for education attainment and innovation at the American Council on Education.

The council is in the midst of a yearlong study – funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – of the courses and is reviewing those offered by two of the largest providers, Coursera and Udacity. The council has approved five of the courses for credit – students take a proctored exam at the end — but it remains up to schools to decide whether to accept those credits.

The initiative at Thomas Edison is one of very few that will offer a truly low-cost online alternative, said Marc Singer, vice provost at the school's assessment center. Saylor also is offering courses through Excelsior College in New York, a private school that, like Thomas Edison, caters to adult learners.

The College Board's College Level Examination Program, or CLEP, allows students to gain college credits for the $80 cost of taking a test, but it is not tied to specific coursework and the credits are not always accepted by colleges and universities.

The programs at Excelsior and Thomas Edison are novel in that they are tied to a degree track, Singer said. Both schools have catered to adult learners and were more agile than some traditional schools in embracing the online courses, he said.

"We didn't have to turn the ship around. This is already in our wheelhouse," Singer said.

He said the Saylor courses more closely resemble college courses, unlike the popular lectures presented by some other open online providers.

The end-of-course tests for college credits are designed by Thomas Edison and those credits are also accepted by other state colleges, including Ramapo, Montclair State and William Paterson universities, Singer said. Rutgers does not accept the Thomas Edison assessment or the CLEP test, he said.

The regular per credit cost at Thomas Edison is $164 and other state schools charge more than twice that. The cost ranges from $370 at Montclair to $411 at Ramapo – or more than $1,200 for one course, so the savings in using Thomas Edison's $99 course could be substantial.

The fist six Saylor courses offered for credit at the school are Introduction to Comparative Politics; World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present); Management Information Systems; Negotiations and Conflict Management; Introduction to Mechanical Engineering; and Thermodynamics.

And let's call stupidity "education." Anti-Christian bigots henceforth shall be known as "diploma mill experts."

Quote:Teacher Tells Students to Call 9-11 Hijackers “Freedom Fighters”
Todd Starnes
Feb 27, 2013

An Advanced Placement World Geography teacher at a Texas high school who encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing also instructed them to refer to the 9-11 hijackers not as terrorists – but as “freedom fighters,” according to students who were in the class.

Students at Lumberton High School were also told to stop referring to the Holocaust as Genocide – instead they were told to use the term “ethnic cleansing.”

John Valastro, the superintendent of the Lumberton Independent School District, tells me that the teacher did absolutely nothing wrong.

“What is more dangerous – fear and ignorance or education and understanding,” he asked. “From our standpoint, we are here to educate the kids.

Valastro said the teacher involved is a 32-year veteran who was simply following state teaching guidelines.

“I don’t think my freshman-level teacher was trying to politicize radical Islam or anything like that,” he said. “I don’t think our teacher has...to my knowledge ever converted a single student to Islam.”

The Islamic lessons in the small public high school generated national attention after a photograph of four female students wearing burqas surfaced on Facebook.

April LeBlanc’s 15-year-old daughter was one of the students in the photograph. She told me that many parents in the district feel betrayed by school officials.

“My biggest thing is not the burqa,” she said. “That was the key to opening up the rest. It’s scary how far they dove into the Islamic faith. It’s scary what they taught my daughter. Who’s in charge of this? How did our superintendent let this slip through the cracks?”

LeBlanc said the students were told that they could no longer use the terms suicide bomber or terrorist. Instead, they were instructed to use the words “freedom fighters.”

“This teacher taught her that a freedom fighter is when they give their life for the Holy War – and that they’re going to go to heaven,” she said. “They were saturating these kids in Islam and my daughter is an American Christian child.”

Madelyn LeBlanc told me that it was clear her teacher was very uncomfortable lecturing the students.

“I do have a lot of sympathy for her,” the 15-year-old said. “At the very beginning she said she didn’t want to teach it but it was in the curriculum.”

Her mother added that it was her impression that the teacher did not agree with the quote about calling the terrorists freedom fighters and laced her lecture with sarcasm.

During a lesson on Judaism, LeBlanc said the teacher told the class, “Students, I’m supposed to be politically correct and tell you that the Holocaust was not Genocide. It was an ethnic cleansing.”

LeBlanc said her daughter kept detailed notes of every classroom lecture and as she read the transcripts she became disturbed.

“Really,” she asked. “They can’t call the Holocaust Genocide? I was more upset with that than the lessons on Islam. It made me sick.”

And then came the comparison between the 9-11 hijackers and the freedom fighters.

Madelyn said a young man sitting beside her was stunned.

“He was shocked that we had to call them that,” she told Fox News. “He laughed and asked the teacher, ‘Is that a joke? Are you serious? Why do we have to call them that? That makes it sound okay (what they did) And it’s not.’”

Madelyn said the teacher didn’t know how to respond.

“She said it was something we have to learn for the end of the year testing,” she said. “I’m sure it was very difficult for her to do.”

Madelyn said the lesson about freedom fighters made her feel “terrible.”

“That made it sound like what they were doing was okay,” she said.

The superintendent also defended the lesson on freedom fighters.

“The whole idea behind this particular lesson – do you call yourself a freedom fighter or Islamic jihadist – or whatever it is you want to be called – you’ve got to put things in perspective,” the superintendent said. “We’re trying to teach the kids to discern for themselves that one thing can be called many different things.”

Valastro said it’s important for students to understand context.

“We might see it as terrorism, but from the Islamic side they might call it jihadist or freedom fighter,” he said.

The superintendent said he was not aware of the specific comments made about the 9-11 hijackers – but conceded there was only one side to the attack.

“I do agree it was a terrorist attack,” he said. “But in several classes across this country, you’re going to have a make-up of students from all over the world in your class. We teach it as an act of terrorism – whereas they are teaching it to their kids as a revolutionary event.”

LeBlanc said she was especially bothered by the lack of emphasis on other religions. She said there were hardly any lessons on Judaism and none on Christianity.

“I wondered how it was okay for them to go so in-depth into a religion from the other side of the world but it was not okay for them to be like that with Christianity,” she said.

“I try to stay open-minded,” she said. “I don’t want my daughter to be ignorant about the world. My kids watch the news with us. We make them aware. I don’t even mind the high school teaching these things.”

But, she added, there was no balance.

“They can talk about how important Mecca is – but why aren’t they talking about how important Christianity was to the founding of the nation,” she asked.

LeBlanc and other parents said they feel betrayed.

“We trusted these people,” she said of the school system. “It scares me. I feel like our school is being infiltrated. How can this not be a sign? We’re talking about Lumberton, Texas. We’re talking about a small town with Christian churches on every street corner. Right in our small school this is going on.”

Once again, the "Gold Standard" turns out to be just a curtain rod in the tailpipe.

Sure, we promised you program accreditation...but did you seriously think that paying your tuition meant that you were gonna get it?

Okay, you think you got ripped off now, but can you really place a value on such a valuable life lesson? Think how much money you will save in the future because you know you can't trust anyone...not even government-approved institutions with the magic super powers of regional accreditation.

At least nobody died...this time.

Quote:11 Concordia students sue over accreditation
By Ellen Jean Hirst
Tribune reporter
7:35 a.m. CST, February 28, 2013

Eleven students who will graduate in May 2013 from [regionally accredited] Concordia University Chicago’s school counseling master’s program filed a lawsuit against the university in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday for what they say is consumer fraud.

The individuals claim that the university had promised them upon admission that they would graduate from a school accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs – an important distinction, they said.

But in an e-mail correspondence between the students and the private Lutheran liberal arts university located in River Forest, the lawsuit states that the university told the students it had decided to no longer be accredited by the organization.

The students are asking that the university be required to reimburse their tuition costs as well as damages for the devalued degree.

In the lawsuit, the students claim that while their master’s degree incurred an above-average cost – they said they spent more than $20,000 each –the “coveted prize” of the valuable accreditation the university boasted would have made the price worth it.

Through recruiters, online and packet information, the students said they had been assured that they would graduate from an accredited university, an important step for someone hoping to become a licensed professional counselor, they said.

The accrediting organization states on its website: “Not (attending an accredited institution) can have significant and unfortunate implications for your future ability to obtain licensure as a professional counselor or your ability to continue on for further graduate-level education.”

Calls and emails to the university were not returned Wednesday night.

♫ Look for the union label...♫♫

The principal "promised to investigate" then asked her to delete the video???!!? Yeah, destroying all the evidence is usually the first step in any investigation.

Quote:Student hides in locker to catch a thief...and videotapes veteran TEACHER 'stealing money from kids' backpacks'
By Snejana Farberov
PUBLISHED: 21:54 EST, 26 February 2013 | UPDATED: 21:58 EST, 26 February 2013

A California high school student staged an undercover video sting operation to catch a thief in the act of stealing money from kids' backpacks.

But to her surprise, the footage captured a teacher rummaging through students' belongings.

Linden High School sophomore Justine Betti decided to hide in the locker in hopes of busting the crook who has been plundering cash from book bags during gym class for the past year.


Teen detective: Justine Betti hid in a locker in the Linden High School gym to catch a thief in the act of stealing from students' book bags


Undercover video: A cell phone recording shows a woman believed to be a veteran teacher opening several bags and allegedly taking items out of them


Evidence: A second camera was set up in another locker also trained on the bench where students had left their belongings

After all the students left the room, a teacher hung back, went through the kids' bags and took money, according to Betti. When the girl told her friends about it, nobody believed her

Determined to obtain definitive proof, the sophomore once again concealed herself inside a locker on February 13, this time armed with a cell phone camera to catch the teacher red-handed. A second camera was set up in another locker.

She did not have to wait long: both video recordings made by Betti show a figured believed to be the educator opening several backpacks and methodically going through them.

'I didn't want to believe that she would do something like that because she was so nice, but then she did it,' Betti told KXTV. 'It was really scary. I was like "Oh my gosh, I can't believe I just got this on video."'

After watching the incriminating footage a couple of times, the amateur sleuth took the evidence to the school principal, who promised to investigate the allegations and asked her to delete the video.

By that point, however, Betti said she had already sent the footage to her father, and several of her friends who were in on the sting also shared it with others.

The teacher in question has not been identified, but several students said she has been at the school for 30 years and described her as a 'great teacher.'


Startling revelation: Students at Linden High School said the educator in question has been there for 30 years and described her as a 'great teacher'


Young sleuth: Betti was shocked by what she had witnessed and took the evidence implicating the popular teacher to the school principal

The woman has been placed on administrative leave pending an inquiry by the Linden School District and the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department, ABCNews.com reported.

It will be up to the district attorney to file criminal charges against the popular educator.

When presented with Betti’s footage, the teacher’s sister confirmed her identity, but said that it appears that she is looking for something in the bags rather than stealing cash, WZZM reported.

'She would never steal,' the sister said. 'She doesn't need the money.'

Betti said she grappled with videotaping the teacher in the act and making the footage public, but said her classmates have supported her in making the decision to go through with it.

'We feel like we did the right thing, but It's still kind of hard,' she said.

Quote:

Richard Schmidig
Principal

209-887-3073 Email

Principal

As a product of public education I believe strongly in the system. Born and raised in Modesto,I attended MJC for two years and obtained an Associate Science degree in Agriculture. From there, I transferred to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo earning a BS in Agriculture Sciences and a minor in Mechanized Agriculture. After graduation, I landed a teaching position at Linden High School and taught Ag science and Ag Mechanics for 22 years. Four years ago I went back to school at Stanislaus State and obtained an Administrative Credential. Working with teenagers and guiding them down their individual paths to success is my highest priority.

He just needs to tell them he's an illegal alien, then he can get in-state tuition.

Quote:College Charges Returning Soldier Higher, Out-of-state Tuition Rate
February 25, 2013 by B. Christopher Agee

Brian Stone took four years off from college to do the most selfless thing a career-minded young man could do: he joined the military.

Following his years in the U.S. Navy, Stone naturally re-enrolled in the University of Michigan. Upon receiving a large, unexpected statement from college creditors, he realized the school felt he no longer met the requirements for in-state tuition.

Stone said he “got a letter in the mail saying that due to my overseas service that I may be considered an out-of-state resident,” adding he “had a $6,000 bill that was left for me.”

In the wake of such an anti-military policy coming to light, Stone said a large portion of the veterans enrolled in the university have decided to study elsewhere.

The sophomore paid the higher tuition for four months before university officials decided to reinstate his prior rate. Through the school’s Student Veterans Association, of which he is a member, Stone is asking the university to change its policy when it comes to veterans.

Additionally, he has been circulating a petition that, in part, includes the account of a Marine Corps veteran in a similar situation and another student told to divorce her out-of-state husband to qualify for lower tuition.

Time will tell if the university will think better of its shortsighted policy, but in the meantime Stone isn’t holding back in his criticism. The rule is “outrageous,” his petitions claims. “Do they think Iraq and Afghanistan are military VACATION HOMES?” [Emphasis in original.]

It’s unfortunate a veteran, who should receive every courtesy from his school in light of his voluntary sacrifice, is reduced to starting a petition to help administrators see what should have been apparent in the first place.

What is up with these lunatic physics profs? Too many neutrinos in their Wheaties?

Quote:Columbia University will ‘review’ weird antics of quantum mechanics prof Emlyn Hughes, who stripped onstage

Teacher showed photos of 9/11 and Hitler. Told students they needed to clean their minds to understand physics.

By Christopher Brennan AND Tina Moore / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 7:08 PM


Professor Emlyn Hughes gave his Columbia University students a bizarre performance Monday, stripping down and rapping. The university said it will review the lecture.

Columbia University is investigating the antics of a nutty professor who stripped down to his skivvies and delivered a bizarre lesson in quantum mechanics, the institution confirmed Tuesday.

Columbia Assistant Vice President Robert Hornsby said administrators “are currently reviewing” Prof. Emlyn Hughes’ off-the-wall behavior during class Monday.

Students were bombarded with projected images of the collapsing Twin Towers and Nazi Germany as Hughes stripped down to his underwear and rap music played.

The whole incident was caught on camera and later posted on the student website Bwog.

During the five minute display, two people dressed as Ninjas blind-folded two stuffed animals and then impaled one with a sword.

After, Hughes explained to the class that they would have to “strip raw” and “erase all the garbage” from their brains to properly learn quantum mechanics.

“I thought that the 9/11 thing was a little offensive,” said freshman Andrew Stoughton, who said his dad worked in the World Trade Center but was late to work Sept. 11.

“I try to take it with a grain of salt, like, okay, it's a personal tragedy for people but it's also a historical event that needs to be contextualized,” Stoughton said. “Walking that line is tricky and I think he misstepped.”

RELATED: VIDEO: PROF STRIPS IN BIZARRE LESSON

On the other hand, Stoughton said, “I was definitely paying a lot more attention than I usually do.”

Freshman Jared Greene agreed that the lecture kept him “awake,” but thought the class “might have been in poor taste.”

That said, the frosh thinks it’s “misguided” for the prof to get “flak for trying to make a lecture more interesting.”

Freshman Mariam Gulaid said she was just confused.

“I wasn't thinking about it in an offensive or non-offensive way,” she said. “I was trying to figure out what was going on.

“And then I saw Hitler talking to a kid and I was like ‘What?’” she said.

Most students reacted to their professor’s behavior by laughing and taking pictures.

“And then it was quantum physics for an hour,” Gulaid said.

The performance was not Hughes’ first classroom stunt, according to the Columbia Spectator, a student newspaper. In fall 2011, he showed science students nude photos of Woodstock attendees.

That "BK" would be as in "bankrupt," not "Burger Kings." The failure of the fat cartel cats to effectively embrace the online revolution will be their undoing, says "disruption guru" Clayton Christensen.

Quote:Feb 7, 2013, 8:55am PST Updated: Feb 11, 2013, 2:28pm PST

Disruption guru Christensen: Why Apple, Tesla, VCs, academia may die

Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen literally wrote the book on technology disruption, and he thinks Apple, Tesla Motors, venture capitalists and most of the nation’s colleges and universities should be afraid.

The author of The Innovator’s Dilemma said Wednesday that all of them could be killed by less advanced competitors in the same way that many once dominant technology companies have been in the past.

Christensen shared his theories about how innovative giants are felled and replaced by relatively less sophisticated rivals, speaking to an attentive crowd of young entrepreneurs and funders at the Startup Grind conference in Mountain View on Wednesday.

Basically, his theory of disruption centers around how dominant industry leaders will react to a newcomer: “It allows you to predict whether you will kill the incumbents or whether the incumbents will kill you.”

If a newcomer thinks it can win by competing at the high end, “the incumbents will always kill you.”

If they come in at the bottom of the market and offer something that at first is not as good, the legacy companies won’t feel threatened until too late, after the newcomers have gained a foothold in the market.

He offered as an example the introduction of cheap transistor radios. High fidelity, vacuum-tube powered incumbents felt no threat from the poor quality audio the transistors produced and missed the technological shift that eventually killed many of them.

Here is what Christensen said threatens Apple, Tesla, VCs and academia.

Apple too good for its own good?

Apple could be on path for a classic disruption in Christensen’s view. Successful innovative products like the iPhone are usually based on proprietary technology because that is how the dominant business carves out, protects and builds its top market position.

But at some point as they get better and better, they start to exceed what people actually need or are willing to pay extra for.

“When that happens the people who have the proprietary architecture are pushed to the ceiling and the volume goes to the open players. So in smartphones the Android operating system has consummate modularity that now allows hundreds of people in Vietnam and China to assemble these things.

“Just like I pray for Harvard Business School, I pray for Apple.

“They always have won with their proprietary architecture and because of their advantage. If you ask them what is the core of the company, they will say it is design and the interaction with the customer. Manufacturing really is not our core competence.

“So you just give that to the Chinese. But then what happens to them? As the dominant architecture becomes open and modular, the value of their proprietary design becomes commoditized itself. It may not be as good, but almost good enough is often good enough.”

The real value in making the iPhone, Christensen argues, is in the sophisticated manufacturing that is being done on it overseas, something that can no longer be done competitively in the U.S. He believes that and the commoditization of smartphones threaten Apple in the long run.

Tesla goes down the wrong road

Instead of coming in at the low end of the market with a cheap electric vehicle, Tesla Motors competes with premium offerings from legacy automakers.

“Who knows whether they will be successful or not,” he said. “They have come up with cars that in fact compete reasonably well and they cost $100,000 and god bless them.”

“But if you really want to make a big product market instead of a niche product market, the kind of question you want to ask for electric vehicles is, I wonder if there is a market out there for customers who would just love to have a product that won’t go very far or go very fast. The answer is obvious.

“The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won’t go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.”

Because that kind of electric car offers something that doesn’t threaten incumbents and provides a low-end solution, Christensen says that has a greater chance of surviving and ultimately upending the auto market than Tesla’s flashy Roadsters and sedans.

VCs aiming too high

Christensen said he thinks the venture capital world needs to be disrupted because it is focused too much on making big killings on big investments at a time when there are plenty of good smaller investments to be made on companies that will be disruptive.

He offered as an example his friend, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Before teaching, Christensen ran a small company in Massachusetts at the same time Romney started Bain Capital, and the firm invested $1 million in Staples when it was just starting out.

Romney actually took the time to call and to ask him to buy his supplies from Staples, even though he was just a small business. But when Christensen some years later sent another friend who was raising $1 million for a good idea, Romney told the man that Bain didn’t make those kinds of investments any more. They only wanted to invest $10 million or more.

“Venture capital is always wanting to go up market. It’s like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 'Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.' People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can’t get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.”

A new course for academia

Christensen wrote his first opinions on why Harvard Business School and other higher-ed institutions were in line to be disrupted back in 1999. Much of what he predicted then is coming true, and the disruption is accelerating.

“For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. If San Jose State wants to become a globally known research institution, they have to emulate UC Berkeley and Cal Tech. They can’t disrupt,” he said on Wednesday.

“But now online learning brings to higher education this technological core, and people who are very complacent are in deep trouble. The fact that everybody was trying to move upmarket and make their university better and better and better drove prices of education up to where they are today.

“Right now, Harvard Business School is investing millions of dollars in online learning, but it is being developed to be used in our existing business model, and we’ll sell it to other universities to use in their existing business models.

“But there is a different business model that is disrupting this in addition to online learning. It’s on-the-job education. This model of learning is you come in for a week and we’ll teach you about strategy and you go off and develop a strategy. Come back later for two weeks on product development. You learn it and you use it. These are very different business models and that’s what’s killing us.”

“Fifteen years from now more than half of the universities will be in bankruptcy, including the state schools. In the end, I am excited to see that happen.”

Unaccredited Aristotle University in Carlsbad, California is under scrutiny from the DHS. Not just unaccredited but not even approved by the lamers at the California BPPE. Yet somehow they got approved to issue student visas. Good thing it's not a flight school.

If the name "Gionis" sounds familiar, one of Aristotle U's deans, Dr. Thomas Gionis, MD JD LLM MBA MHA etc. etc, formerly was married to John Wayne's daughter Aissa, and was sentenced to five years for having her roughed up by thugs.

His "sister and business manager" is Xanthi Gionis, who also claims an astonishing array of degrees, including a JD at the age of 20 from an unspecified school, MD, an MS in Human Health Sciences from unaccredited Golden State, and an LLM. Neither is shown as admitted to the California bar.

Quote:Homeland Security Launches Investigation into Aristotle University
Special agents want to know how Aristotle University was authorized to issue student visas

By Mari Payton | Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013


Xanthi Gionis, founder and dean of Aristotle University at a downtown news conference Feb. 7, 2013.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into a North [San Diego] County university.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security oversees the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) which manages schools and student visas.

Special agents with the agency want to know how Aristotle University was authorized to issue student visas, which they said is a stringent process.

The investigation was launched after an NBC 7 Investigates story revealed that some of the students (say they) used their life savings to attend Aristotle University the Carlsbad school, for a Master's Degree in Public Health.

On its website,which has now been taken down, Aristotle University claimed it was licensed by the Bureau for Private Post-Secondary and Vocational Education, but a spokesperson from that bureau told NBC 7 there is no record of it ever being licensed by the state.

Students say they attended class once a week for months, with little instruction.

Students also claim Xanthi Gionis, the school’s dean and cofounder, threatens to take away their visas and have them deported if they are late on tuition payments.

Gionis challenged the allegations against the school first brought to light and reported by the NBC 7 Investigation.

“The allegations against Aristotle University are ridiculous and unfounded,” she said at a news conference held Thursday.

Following NBC 7 San Diego’s report, U.S. Sen. Mark Wyland, 38th District sent a letter to Denise Brown who heads the state’s Department of Consumer Affairs.

Wyland sent Brown our report stating that,“the school is, at best, nothing more than a diploma factory.”

Read Sen. Wyland’s letter

On Thursday, Gionis told NBC 7, "Aristotle University has been a homeland security SEVIS approved school to issue the F1 student visas to international students wishing to pursue their masters of public health since 2008."

“It’s extremely hard to get certification,” immigration attorney Ginger Jacobs explained. “So I was very surprised that this school had obtained that certification.”

One student told NBC 7 San Diego that Aristotle University postponed this week’s class scheduled for Monday and informed students the class would resume next week.

NBC 7 reached out to Gionis for comment Wednesday in regards to the investigation into Aristotle University launched by the Department of Homeland Security.

"Aristotle University looks very much forward to and welcomes any and all investigations, particularly from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the California Department of Consumer Affairs," Gionis told NBC 7.

A short course on George Washington taught live online by Dr. Newt Gingrich (PhD History, Tulane) on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 2 pm EST. Newt did not need 15 people to write his dissertation for him.

Quote:George Washington: the Indispensable American

February 22nd - 2:00 PM EST



Without George Washington, there would be no United States of America. He was the indispensable man without whom the American Revolution would have failed. Washington is rightly called the Father of our Country because he understood that the Revolution was about more than the “injuries and usurpations” of King George III. It was about a big idea -- the idea that ordinary men and women can freely govern themselves. And this idea, as Washington repeatedly demonstrated in his life, was bigger than any general or president. At a time when the nation faces great challenges, George Washington’s life holds great lessons for how we can chart a successful path into the future. More than ever, we should take the opportunity of Washington’s birthday to pause and consider these lessons.

This short course with Newt Gingrich will take place live at Mount Vernon, on George Washington's 281st birthday, February 22. It will begin at 2pm and last approximately an hour. Mr. Gingrich will take questions from the live and online audiences at the end. Register Today!