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Quote:Feds strip authority of college accreditor behind ITT Tech, fake university
Chris Quintana
USA TODAY
Published 1:13 p.m. ET Aug. 19, 2022 | Updated 11:36 a.m. ET Aug. 22, 2022


An embattled college accreditor that survived several rounds of federal scrutiny over the course of?three presidential administrations may have finally run out of chances.

The U.S. Department of Education on Friday said it had denied the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and School's appeal?to retain its federal status as a college accreditor.

The federal government doesn?t accredit colleges directly, instead relying on accreditors to vet universities. The Education Department's decision?means?roughly two dozen schools approved by ACICS have 18 months to find a new accreditor or they will lose access to federal financial aid such as?student loans or Pell Grants.?ACICS primarily accredited for-profit colleges, which tend to rely on that kind of federal funding to stay afloat.

Cindy Marten, the department's deputy secretary, made the final decision on ACICS' appeal and said the accreditor hadn't complied?with government standards.

"Recognition by the Department must be reserved for agencies that adhere to high standards, just as accreditation by agencies must be reserved for institutions and programs that adhere to high standards," Marten said.?"Its continuing failure to reach full compliance with this criterion alone is a sufficient basis to terminate ACICS? recognition.?

The decision could mean an end to ACICS? long-running battle with the federal government, which stretches back to 2016. That's when the Obama-era department tried to strip the agency of its recognition, following the closures of two massive for-profit colleges. Trouble continued to find ACICS: A?USA TODAY network investigation in 2020 revealed the accreditor had approved Reagan National University, a college in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that?had no students or faculty.?

The decision comes at time when the?Biden administration has said it would?crack down on predatory colleges that take federal money and leave taxpayers without lucrative degrees.

Michael Itzkowitz, a senior fellow focused on higher education at the center-left think tank Third Way, praised the decision, though he noted it was overdue.

?While it shouldn't have taken this long, the federal bureaucracy has finally worked its course,? Itzkowitz said.??This action will save taxpayers billions of dollars that will no longer flow to underperforming institutions, not to mention the hardship that students have felt by obtaining a worthless degree from an ACICS institution."



Students rely on these agencies to ?validate that the schools where they spend their time and money will meet a baseline level of quality,? said Eric Rothschild, litigation direction of the National Student Legal Defense Network, a watchdog group focused on accountability in higher education.

?It?s great to see the Department take this long-overdue action to protect students and taxpayers. We are talking about an entity that accredited a school that didn?t even exist and continues to rubberstamp some of the worst for-profit colleges.?

What is the?Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools?

ACICS used to be one of the largest college accreditors in the country. It oversaw 290 institutions and hundreds of thousands?of students?in 2016, but now it accredits just 27 institutions with about 5,000 students, according to the Education Department. Its institutions received about $110 million in federal aid in the 2020-21 fiscal year.

It also accredited dozens of?schools operated by Corinthian Colleges, and separately signed off on ITT Technical Institute. Both were massive institutions that shut down in the mid-2010s with little warning, disrupting students? lives and costing taxpayers billions. The federal government recently forgave?more than $10 billion in student loan debt for students who attended both Corinthian ?and ITT.

The Obama administration-era Department of Education withdrew the agency's power in 2016. Following a federal court ruling, the Trump administration-era department under then-Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reinstated the accreditor in 2018.

A USA TODAY network investigation in 2020, however, found the accreditor had approved Reagan National University. Links on the university?s website didn?t work, and reporters couldn?t find evidence that anyone attended or taught courses at the college. ACICS had approved the institution, though it withdrew from accreditation just a few days before USA TODAY?s investigation was published.

Following the story, the Education Department started an inquiry of the group in 2020. By 2021,?the federal government again moved to strip the accreditor of federal recognition. The agency appealed the department?s findings shortly thereafter, but it took the Education Department?another a year to respond. Its decision Friday ends the appeal process.?

The accreditor could file a legal challenge, as they did following the 2016 decision, but it wasn't clear if the agency plans to do so.

ACICS didn't immediately return a request for comment, but it did post a statement to its website saying it was "disappointed" by the decision. The agency said it believed it was in compliance with the government's regulations, and it was "evaluating all of our options and how best to serve our institutions, including any decision to appeal the Deputy Secretary?s decision in federal district court."

What happens if my school accredited is?by ACICS?

The 18-month countdown for colleges accredited by ACICS has begun regardless of the accreditor's?intent to challenge the decision. On a call Friday?with reporters, Education Department Undersecretary James Kvaal said three of the 27?colleges associated with ACICS already are?seeking accreditation from another accreditor.

The department will require these schools to comply with new rules if they want to keep receiving federal money. Those requirements include?limiting?enrollment?in programs that would take longer than 18 months to complete as well as warning students about the possibility of the colleges losing federal funding. In addition, the?schools must?create a roadmap?for students about how to complete their degrees.?The Education Department also published a guide for students who attend these institutions.

"While this decision may have serious implications for students at these institutions," Kvaal said, "we are committed to working with them and with our other partners to ensure students have a path forward and that quality institutions have a fair shot at finding another accrediting agency."

Quote:"HE'S TRANSGRIFTER": The evolution of an "EXPERT" on whatever is the latest hot thing to be an "EXPERT" on
Mar. 5, 2022 5:51 pm by Fred T

The death of expertise? More like the proliferation, because as self-identifying smart people say so often when sneering at people like Joe Rogan or Joe Blow on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, "everybody's an expert."

That snark has some unintended truth to it, though, because the media will treat any egghead as an expert on any topic, assuming the nerd in question is willing to tow the party line.

One such grifter got busted big time by @NeonTaster, who captured the evolution of covid hysteric Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding.




This is what they do. They move from one thing they can sponge off to the next. And the rest of us have to obey their will or get banned from the internet. Or worse.

These are the kinds of people who drive policy and politics. And they are scum.

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George Gollin 6 months ago

Years ago, when I was in graduate school, one of my friends would keep his kitchen garbage in his refrigerator. (That way it wouldn't smell up his apartment.) I thought that was really gross, and stupid. Same thing with putting compost in the freezer: gross and stupid

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  Michael Baquerizo George Gollin
  
  whereas you just seem like the latter
  

Quote:San Diego judge fines online university Ashford, parent company $22M for misleading students
by: Associated Press
Posted: Mar 7, 2022 / 05:41 PM PST / Updated: Mar 7, 2022 / 06:59 PM PST

A California judge has ordered an online, for-profit university and its former parent company to pay $22 million in penalties, saying they mislead students about the costs of their education, among other things, the state’s attorney general announced Monday.

The San Diego Superior Court ruled in favor of the state of California in its 2017 lawsuit against Ashford University and and its then-parent company Zovio, Inc. The University of Arizona has since acquired the university and rebranded the online school, the University of Arizona Global Campus. It is an independent university that is operated in affiliation with the University of Arizona.

“Ashford made false promises to students about the value of an Ashford degree, leaving students with mounting debt, broken promises, and searching for a job,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement announcing the ruling. “While we can’t turn back the clock for these students, this decision should send a strong message: If you engage in deceptive practices in order to pad your bottom line, my office will hold you accountable.”

Bonta said he will fight for the students to be given relief from their federal student loans, and urged U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to do that.

Zovio did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Eddie C. Sturgeon wrote in his ruling issued Thursday that the university gave “students false or misleading information about career outcomes, cost and financial aid, pace of degree programs, and transfer credits, in order to entice them to enroll at Ashford.”

Sturgeon wrote that, during a bench trial held late last year, testimony from former Ashford employees revealed “a high pressure admissions department whose north star was enrollment numbers” and “a work environment permeated by fear, where closing the sale was prioritized above providing students with accurate information.”

The judge wrote that the school misrepresented how much financial aid they would receive, and downplayed the student loan debt they would incur and as such many dropped out and are saddled with debt.

In 2005, Zovio purchased the Franciscan University of the Prairies, a small religious school in Clinton, Iowa, so it would have students that attended an accredited university and be eligible for financial aid, according to court documents.

Zovio renamed the school Ashford University and turned it into an online university with more than 80,000 students at its peak. Zovio made hundreds of millions of dollars from Ashford, most of it from taxpayer-funded sources like Title IV loans, income-based grants and GI Bill funds, according to court documents.

The student body was older than traditional college students, with most in their mid-30s, largely low-income and roughly 50% were minorities. A bachelor’s degree cost between $40,000 and $60,000, and only about a quarter of students graduated with many defaulting on their loans, according to court documents.

In exchange for paying $54 million in a deal with the University of Arizona, Zovio will continue to receive almost 20% of the school’s tuition revenue for the next seven to 15 years, according to court documents.

The judge denied a request by the state to impose an injunction on the company, saying it did not believe there was enough evidence that the problems continue today to warrant that.

The company continues to provide many of the educational services it provided to Ashford.

My name is Rich Douglas. My mom thinks I'm a major disappointment when I got my DBA at University of Leicester when WES evaluated it a Master's. I thought I was the expert. I guess it was all in my head (the bottom one). Even former degree mill owner/scammer John Bear once said the British Charter was "everything." Right, he was selling Heriott-Watt's MBA then, and my mother called me an asshole for going for MIGS.

I found this awhile ago, right from the horse's mouth. I would like to share this with everyone so that they don't get discouraged or insulted by the usual cocksuckers like Gus Sainz (right, pay your tax bill, asshole).

Effectively July 1st, 2020, the US Dept. of Education has removed the word "regional" from its language. Specifically, DOE states that they make no distinction between Regional Accreditation vs. National Accreditation. DOE states that they hold all recognized accreditation agencies to the same standards and all states must follow suit in stages.

Link: 2020-02-26_ED_Final_Accreditation_and_State_Authorization_Regulations.pdf (tracs.org)

There hasn't been much discussion at degreeinfo on such a big step forward on the part of DOE. Geez what a "surprise." There, I see the clown trend has evolved from being critical on non-RA schools to criticizing accreditors. What a fucking joke. I guess Union must have graduated a couple thousand Ph.D's in "non-traditional higher education" before they sold me the Ph.D.? But wait, my lapdogs never questioned me if Union had the experience AND the expertise in non-traditional higher education (AND the faculty) when they sold me my Ph.D.

"Just because you said so doesn't make it so. And with all the RA universities available, why would you pick anything else?"

Sorry for being a dumbass. I was the fucking clown who fell for MIGS.

Rich A Douglas

Hi Guys,

My name is Richard A Douglas.  I know I disappointed you guys when I went for the DBA at University of Leicester, and only to have WES evaluated as a Master's (fuck me, what a clown).  That really hurt.  My mother even said to me:  "Oh geez, son, what an asshole!  You're supposed to be the expert." 

Also, I would like to apologize when I commented that WES was rude in dealing with me.  As you know, I am always nice and polite with everyone but when shit doesn't go in my favor, I like to call that um...rude.

I found this awhile ago, right from the horse's mouth, and would like to share this with everyone so that they don't get discouraged or insulted by the monkeys at degreeinfo.  

Effectively July 1st, 2020, the US Dept. of Education has removed the word "regional" from its language.  Specifically, DOE states that they make no distinction between Regional Accreditation vs. National Accreditation. DOE states that they hold all recognized accreditation agencies to the same standards and all states must follow suit in stages.

Link:  2020-02-26_ED_Final_Accreditation_and_State_Authorization_Regulations.pdf (tracs.org)

I'm very surprised, there hasn't been much discussion at degreeinfo on such a big step forward on the part of DOE, except for the usual attacks by me and the usual cocksuckers (my lapdogs). 

You know, I like to attack people with crapshoot like:  "Just because you said so doesn't make it so.  And with all the RA universities available, why would you pick anything else?"
I guess my mother was right when she said to me:  "What an asshole, so why did you pick University of Leicester and MIGS again?" 

Richard A Douglas

Coming next: free Porsches and beach homes.  Gimme dat social equity. 

Quote:Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces bill to make college free and have Wall Street pay for it
Published Wed, Apr 21 20216:05 AM EDT
Updated Wed, Apr 21 20219:18 AM EDT

Carmen Reinicke@csreinicke


Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) makes his way to a roll call vote in the Senate in Washington, U.S. April 19, 2021.
Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters

Free college could soon be a reality for many Americans.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., on Wednesday introduced the College for All Plan, legislation that would make a college education free for millions and lend extra support to those from working-class families attending minority institutions.

“In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, a higher education should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few,” Sanders said in a statement. “If we are going to have the kind of standard of living that the American people deserve, we need to have the best educated workforce in the world.”

The proposal comes amid a continuing debate over canceling student loan debt.

President Joe Biden said during his presidential campaign that he would support eliminating $10,000 in federal debt per borrower, and now he’s tasked his secretary of Education with preparing a report on his legal authority to forgive up to $50,000.

“While President Biden can and should immediately cancel student debt for millions of borrowers, Congress must ensure that working families never have to take out these crushing loans to receive a higher education in the first place,” Jayapal said.

Americans currently owe a total of more than $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, 93% of which is federally backed.



The details

The plan would provide tuition-free education for all students attending community colleges and public trade schools.

For students from families making less than $125,000 annually, tuition would be erased at public four-year colleges and universities, as well as public and private historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions.

An annual $10 billion federal investment would be established to provide ongoing support to students at such underfunded institutions.

The bill would double the maximum Pell Grant award to $12,990, from $6,495, for the 2021-22 school year, make so-called Dreamers eligible for the loans and ensure that students could use the money for living arrangements and other nontuition expenses. It would also boost funding for programs that help low-income children, those with disabilities and first-generation college students.

“It is absolutely unacceptable that hundreds of thousands of bright young Americans do not get a higher education each year, not because they are unqualified, but because their family does not have enough money,” said Sanders.

A tax on Wall Street to pay for it

The legislation proposed by Sanders and Jayapal is a big investment in education and comes with a high price tag.

The bill says the federal government will shoulder 75% of the cost of free college at public schools, with states paying the remainder. In the event of an economic downturn, the federal government’s share would increase to 90%.

In addition, the bill proposes the government pay for free college by imposing a financial transaction tax on Wall Street, as in previous plans put forth by Sanders and others.

The Tax on Wall Street Speculation Act would levy a 0.5% tax on stock trades, a 0.1% fee on bond trades and a 0.005% fee on derivative transactions. That would raise up to $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a summary of the bill.

Such a tax has been criticized in the past. Business groups have spoken out against it, and some studies have shown it could harm middle-class Americans.

Still, those who support the tax see at as an equalizer.

“Thirteen years ago, the middle class bailed out Wall Street during their time of need, even as the middle class was struggling,” the bill summary reads. “Now, it is Wall Street’s turn to rebuild the struggling middle class by paying a modest financial transactions tax to make sure that everyone in America who wants to get a higher education can do so without going into debt.”

Quote:Dinesh D'Souza: $5,000 online college program would crush liberal hold on higher education

Conservatives need to create 'our own America inside of America,' famed producer says.


Dinesh D'Souza
Getty

By Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: February 21, 2021 - 10:55pm

Dinesh D'Souza is proposing an alternative online university system with $5,000 yearly tuition, saying it could crush liberals' hold over higher education.

The famed producer and author told the John Solomon Reports podcast this weekend that the new college system should be part of conservatives' effort to defeat cancel culture and censorship by building their own educational and entertainment infrastructures.

"With regard to digital media and media generally – I mean we have to build our own platform. So I'm very much in the camp that says that at least in the short term, we need to build an alternative educational infrastructure, entertainment infrastructure, we need our own comedians, we really need the whole thing," D'Sousa said.

"We need our own America inside of America," he added.

He said a top-notch online education system was key to the whole infrastructure.

"We basically need one online university that has assembled together, the 100 top teachers and scholars in the world that will offer a Harvard level education for $5,000 a year. If you did that, you would make all of higher education obsolete overnight. I mean, the universities wouldn't go away, but it was kind of like when the iPhone first came out, suddenly, all other phones were obsolete. We can do that for education, we can do that for media, you just have to make the right moves." 

D'Souza discussed the logistics of starting these new infrastructures. 

"I think that the money is there and the will exists to do it. It's just that our side is very erratic and there hasn't been the creativity on the supply side to create these things. I mean, just think, for example, of the amount of creativity it took for Roger Ailes to go to Rupert Murdoch and just say, 'Listen, you know, all these cable channels are fighting for half the country. Geez, why don't we start one, make it a real thing, we'll offer a rival point of view, we'll take the other half of the country.'"

"It's so simple," D'Souza continued, "I mean, for decades before that, you know, all we did - our side did was, you know, complain about media, document the media bias. 'Oh, it's all so biased. We're going to give the bias award to you know' - who cares? Do your own thing and build your own, you know, mousetrap, and that's really what Roger Ailes did. And that's been my model for the world of documentaries and even feature films in Hollywood. That should be the model for education. That should be the model for everything."

There have been various alternative educational institutions established in recent years to try and change the tide of higher education. Some of these include places like the Patriot Academy and Wallbuilders, which teach students about America's founding, focus more on the cultural aspect of education. 

Cheaper, faster, and more skills-oriented educational institutions that places like University Ventures are investing in pioneer the way for more effective education that helps prepare students for the workplace. 

Co-founder and managing director of University Ventures, Ryan Craig, has said that employers are looking for job candidates with technical skills, so his organization invests in what's called "last-mile" training providers that focus on those skills.

One of these "last-mile" training providers, AlwaysHired, "is an immersive tech sales bootcamp for recent graduates who want to gain sales skills and get a job in the tech industry."

Craig is an author of a book entitled "A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College" which discusses the issues with higher education and offers better solutions.

Considering that the evil CCP owns the "President Elect" Beijing Joe Xiden, this is probably not that big a deal.  Most of the institutions comprising the higher ed cartel are already run by full on communists, so this is not likely a matter of much concern to them either.  Wake up or prepare to bow down to your new masters.

Quote:Organizations Linked to Chinese Military Are a Cash Cow for American Colleges
Universities received $88 million from CCP entities behind cyber attacks and espionage



Yuichiro Kakutani and Jack Beyrer - January 11, 2021 5:00 AM

Chinese military-linked entities, including those behind extensive cyber attacks and espionage, funneled at least $88 million into U.S. universities over the course of six years, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of federal records.

Some of America's most prestigious universities have cashed lucrative checks from Chinese institutions that directly threatened national security. Duke University operates a joint-campus in China with Wuhan University, a public university that repeatedly carried out cyber attacks on behalf of the Chinese military. Northwestern University and the University of California Irvine have together received more than $4 million in research funding from an entity controlled by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, a Chinese defense contractor that used stolen designs of American F-35 fighters to build planes for the Chinese military.

Institutions controlled by the Chinese government—state-owned enterprises, state-controlled public universities, government-controlled nonprofits, and other sources—collectively donated at least $315 million to American colleges between 2014 and 2019. More than a quarter of the contributions—27 percent—came from either state-owned defense contractors or public universities that closely partner with the Chinese military to conduct defense research.

The expenditures indicate that the Chinese government is a much bigger player in U.S. academia than previously thought. State-backed entities often avoid scrutiny as their government ties are not immediately obvious. The $315 million sum, based on federal disclosures, is likely a conservative estimate of Chinese influence peddling on campus. A Department of Education audit found that U.S. universities failed to disclose more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding from China and other countries in recent years.

Ian Easton, the senior director for the Project 2049 Institute think tank, said that the Chinese donations to American universities could pose a grave threat to national security.

"It is imperative that the U.S. government dams up the torrent of CCP-linked money currently flowing into our education system. For U.S. national security, the implications of a continuation of the current arrangement are grave," Easton told the Free Beacon. 

The Free Beacon combed through nearly 1,000 Chinese donations to U.S. universities logged in a Department of Education database, reviewing each donor to see whether it is formally owned or controlled by the Chinese government. The review found that 198 separate Chinese government entities funneled money to dozens of U.S. universities.

The biggest regime-backed donors were Chinese universities, which collectively donated more than $192 million to U.S. colleges. These donations funded a wide variety of projects, but more than 40 percent of the money came from institutions that have been identified as close research partners of the Chinese military by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's China Defense Universities Tracker.

Some U.S. universities received research funding from a Chinese university with a history of stealing U.S. research. The University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collectively received more than $28 million from Zhejiang University. In 2013, the FBI charged a Chinese researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin for stealing U.S. cancer research to pass onto Zhejiang University.

None of the universities responded to requests for comment about their dealings with China.

Easton said that the Chinese military could easily exploit state-owned institutions to illicitly acquire American research knowledge. "The CCP's armed-wing, the People's Liberation Army, has access to any and all information collected by Chinese entities at American universities," he said. "Xi Jinping's military-civil fusion strategy has removed even the thin cloak of plausible deniability Chinese companies and other civilian organizations previously could hide behind."

Several Chinese donors are also placed on various U.S. government ban lists. The University of Michigan has received $1.3 million from Harbin Engineering University, an institution that the Treasury Department included on its ban list in 2020.

Zack Cooper, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, cautioned against considering all Chinese donations as nefarious, since the dataset provides few details on what the money is going toward. He said that while some donors likely do want to acquire U.S. technologies for military purposes, others are likely motivated by more innocuous reasons.

"I'm sure there are some cases in which some of this money is going toward research that would be useful from a military or strategic standpoint. But also, I'm sure there's a lot that is just sort of public relations outreach," Cooper said. "A lot of companies, globally, give money to many different causes."

U.S. policymakers in recent years have started to crack down on Chinese government attempts to gain clout in U.S. universities. In 2020, the FBI arrested several American researchers, including the chair of Harvard University's chemistry department, for concealing their research funding from the Chinese government-backed Thousand Talents Program. Congress also recently passed a bill to rein in the influence of the Chinese government-backed Confucius Institute.

"Americans must know how the CCP is poisoning the well of our higher education for its own ends, and how those actions degrade our freedoms and our national security," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a December speech. "If we don't educate ourselves, we'll get schooled by Beijing."

The retarded assholes changed providers that transcript the courses they approve as college equivalent.? They orphaned all the old courses leaving students scrambling to make contact with past course providers.? Current providers are slowly? figuring it out but past providers couldn't give a shit.? These useless jackasses are the people who manage America's universities.? What is their damage?? Tens of thousand of students coughed up millions of dollars and spent millions of hours passing courses are now given a big fuck you.? Legendary incompetence, in my opinion.