Since most distance learners are part-timers and working adults, this report is not encouraging. Although comprising 3/4 of the students, only 24% of part-timers complete a bachelor's degree, even given 8 years to do so. For community college students it's even worse. Only 8% of part-timers finish an associate's degree in 4 years. The RA "dropout factory" is even more ubiquitous than the RA "dumbass factory," and far more perfidious.

Quote:Posted at 09:44 AM ET, 09/27/2011
Report exposes hidden failure of part-time students
By Daniel de Vise
A new report finds evidence of a new majority on college campuses: part-time students.

Three-quarters of today's college students attend part time, juggling classes along with work and family responsibilities, according to a new report from the nonprofit Complete College America. Only one quarter attend residential colleges as full-time students supported by their parents, the customary vision of college embraced by the suburban middle class.

The federal government doesn't track part-time students, the report says, which means official measurements of success or failure in higher education don't take them into account. The new report "Time is the Enemy" works around this problem by gathering data direct from 33 states.

Outcomes for part-time students are starkly worse than for their full-time counterparts. The completion rate for part-time students seeking a bachelor's degree is 24 percent in the states surveyed, even when students are given eight full years to finish. The corresponding completion rate for full-time students is 61 percent. Among two-year community college students, the completion rate is 19 percent for full-time students and just 8 percent for part-time students, and that's allowing four years to finish.

To put those numbers in context, consider the consequences if a large public school district were to announce that its graduation rate was 24 percent. There's growing talk in higher education of collegiate "dropout factories," schools whose remarkably low completion rates are seldom brought to light.

Completion rates are lower still among under-represented minorities. The bachelor's completion rate is 17 percent for Hispanics who attend part-time, 15 percent for African Americans, even after allowing eight years to finish.

Part of the problem is that students are wasting their time amassing more credits than they need to graduate. This is partly a matter of poor or nonexistent advising, and partly a consequence of students attending multiple schools and those schools refusing to transfer credits.

The average community college student who earns an associate degree completes 85.5 credits, while the degree requires only 60. Bachelor's candidates average 136.5 credits for a degree that requires 120.

Part-time students take five years, on average, to complete a two-year associate degree. They take 5.6 years to finish a four-year B.A.

Complete College America is a new nonprofit founded solely to work toward higher completion rates and backed by a star-studded cast of educational foundations as well as the nation's governors.

The report offers a long list of fairly specific fixes. A sampling:

• More flexible scheduling for students, with classes offered year-round and in shorter terms.

• Formal "completion plans" for every student, updated annually.

• A common core curriculum of general-education courses that are consistent and transferable from school to school.

• Cap credit hours at 120 for a bachelor and 60 for an associate degree.

The report includes data for Maryland and Virginia, which were both among the 33 participant states.

Maryland reports a graduation rate of 18 percent for full-time students seeking associate degrees, and a strikingly low 6 percent for part-time students, given four years to complete.

Virginia reports a graduation rate of 20 percent for full-time A.A. students and 9 percent for part-timers.

Maryland reports a graduation rate of 67 percent for full-time students and 18 percent for part-time students seeking bachelor degrees. Virginia's corresponding rates are 73 percent and 29 percent.

Quote:George Gollin Lied About Kid's Obscene Messages

Internet stalker George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) knew that "obscene messages" his then minor daughter received were sent to her by Quinn Tyler Jackson, a known mental case.? Jackson has publicly admitted receiving psychiatric treatment for mental disorders.? Instead of telling the truth, George Gollin tried to frame innocent parties by claiming the messages were "caused" by someone else.

Further, George Gollin admitted on a members-only forum that he suspected Quinn Tyler Jackson of sending the obscenities to his daughter, but in a conspiracy of silence the other members failed to debunk George Gollin's public lies.? Besides George Gollin, the other members of that formerly secret group are Gus Sainz, John Bear, and Bill Dayson.? See http://www.dltruth.com/thread-1127-post-...ml#pid8526

George Gollin's plan was to create a bogus trail leading back to St. Regis University as part of his plot to dupe gullible government authorities into closing the unaccredited Christian school and railroading its proprietors into jail.

George Gollin knew exactly who really was sending the "obscene messages" to his daughter, but chose to lie about it instead. What kind of degenerate bastard uses his own kid as a pawn to promote himself and his sick hobby?? Just another attempted frame job by a lying, stalking scumbag.

No idea what this is about, but their hearts are definitely in the right place even if their spellchecker is not.

A "total dumas"? There were only three musketeers, not the 15 Gollin would require for a quorum.

Quote:Proheamon University

The primary objective of Proheamon University is to expose idiots like George Gollin and many other such idiots who collectively have been ruining the education system in the USA. More about other such idiots coming soon!

From: Gollin, George D [mailto:g-gollin@illinois.edu] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:36 PM To: xxxx@proheamon.com Cc: Gollin (g-gollin@uiuc.edu) Subject: a question for you
Do you have authorization from the state of Virginia to issue degrees? Why should I believe that you are anything but an operator of a diploma mill? Thanks for any information-- George Gollin Professor of Physics 437d Loomis Laboratory of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1110 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA +1 217 333-4451 (phone) +1 217 333-4990 (fax) g-gollin@illinois.edu http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/

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From: Gollin, George D [mailto:g-gollin@illinois.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:05 AM To: xxx Cc: Erik Johansson; Koenig Ann; Contreras Alan; Bear John; Ezell Allen; Phil Vine; Lyter Harv Subject: Re: Who is this moron professor Gollin at UIUC? Please save this world from him!
Dear Mr. Brahmandam, Do you have a Virginia license to operate a degree-granting institution? Is Abul Kalaam Azad, from Bangalore, working with you? Is your curriculum vitae available? Thank you for any information you can provide. George Gollin Professor of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 333-4451 ...badly tapped from my iPhone

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From: Gollin, George D [mailto:g-gollin@illinois.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:28 AM To: Cc: Erik Johansson; Koenig Ann; Contreras Alan; Bear John; Ezell Allen; Phil Vine; Lyter Harv Subject: Re: Who is this moron professor Gollin at UIUC? Please save thisworld from him!
Dear Mr. Brahmandam, You did not answer my questions. Do you have a Virginia license to operate a degree-granting institution? Is Abul Kalaam Azad, from Bangalore, working with you? Is your curriculum vitae available? Thank you for any information you can provide. George Gollin Professor of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 333-4451 ...badly tapped from my iPhone

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From: Gollin, George D [mailto:g-gollin@illinois.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 9:06 AM To: Cc: To: "Gollin, George D" Cc: Erik Johansson; Koenig Ann; Contreras Alan; Bear John; Ezell Allen; Phil Vine; Lyter Harv Subject: Re: Who is this moron professor Gollin at UIUC? Please save this world from him!
Dear Sir, What are the names and educational qualifications of the instructors at your organization? Thank you for any information you can provide. George Gollin Professor of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 333-4451 ...badly tapped from my iPhone

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Quote:#1 Moron George Gollin



I, George Gollin, am the #1 Moron. I am a sorry ass teaching 9th grade physics :-( You can see for yourself from the emails I sent and figure out why I lost most of my hair.:-) Am I a total dumas or what?
George Gollin Professor of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois +1 217 333-4451 (phone) +1 217 333-4990 (fax) g-gollin@illinois.edu
Georgie's Orgie Team:
Johann Lmao :-) from La Canada, The land of wierdos?
Eric Smells Johann! - Johann knows how everyone's behind smells, so does Eric, and the George Pollen's whole team

We have consumer warnings here for online schools that screw over their students, shouldn't we also have a consumer warning for online "discussion" boards that serve as fodder for stalkers?

In particular I'm looking at this thread, where Gollin whines because the poster "Respectable Gent" keeps disagreeing with him.

In response, the klones close the thread and ban the guy--twice. But not satisfied with that, then they start stalking him.

Sainz shares the guy's IP addresses, Sainz and Gollum start trying to get a physical location, THEN Klempner looks up the guy's home address, phone number and info about the guy's wife!!!

THEN Klempner makes crank calls to the guy's work and home phone numbers!!!

The clear message is that anybody who naively attempts to engage the klones in discussion on the issues but doesn't happen to agree with their party line will be subjecting themselves to all manner of privacy invasion and coarse harassment.

Like the old Monty Python sketch...you want an argument, but you get "being-hit-on-the-head lessons." You want to talk DL issues, but your wife gets a phone call from a repulsive stalker!!!!

On June 8 Gus settled with his bank and his mortgage is current. I'm sure he screwed them over good on the settlement. Where in hell did Gus find money?

Has the book George is writing with 15 of his closest friends ever been published? I can't imagine it hitting the best sellers list. Doesn't he have a grant and reduced teaching load that he has to stretch out as long as possible?

I was pretty sure Kizmet was not female, but now it turns out she's not male either.? According to Bear, Kizmet is transgendered Jack Tracey, posing as a female to entertain the toelickers at DebrisInflow.

DegreeInfo's "Kizmet"

Comments by internet cross-dresser Jack Tracey in his Kizmet pose led Bear to query (if you'll pardon the expression) his gay boy porn meister buddy Thomas "Tailpipe Chip" White about Kizmet's true identity.?

White was all too happy to out his loyal companion in shame Kizmet as being Jack Tracey, and Bear eagerly posted the news at what he thought was Goose's top secret boy's club.

John?Bear Wrote:Jan 10, 2010

On Jan. 6th, "kizmet" wrote, in a thread relating to people using (or not using) their real names,

'"Hi Hilty -- Welcome to degreeinfo! I cannot imagine why anyone with any real legal stature would play out their hand on an internet discussion forum.? You can claim to be anyone you'd like but I can't understand why you'd come online to discuss an active case.? Very unprofessional.? You'l never get my business.? BTW, my real name is Natalie Portman.? You can read all about me here: http://www.natalieportman.com/npcom.php"

I know nothing more . . . except that Portman is a Harvard honors graduate (a research assistant for Alan Dershowitz), and has always seemed both a smart and savvy person, to me.

John?Bear Wrote:Jan 13, 2010

Chip says he doesn't think so.? He thinks it is Jack Tracey playing a joke, as it were.

Innovative Alabama-based, DETC-accredited Andrew Jackson University is soon to be New Charter University and relocated to Than Franthithco.

Departing a low overhead, low government-interference state for a high overhead, socialist workers' paradise does not bode well for the school or its students. No doubt tuition increases and RA mandated political indoctrination to follow.

The New Charter University service mark is owned by UniversityNow Inc.
http://socialmedia.trademarkia.com/compa...0-page-1-2

One search shows that UniversityNow Inc. is located at 543 Howard St. in SF.
http://www.findownersearch.com/owner-uni...rands.html

Another search shows them at 2875 Michelle Dr, Suite 100, Irvine, CA
http://www.lookupbook.com/directory/loca...itynow-inc

UniversityNow obtained $300,000 in new funding in December 2010.
http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/201...w-funding/

The Alabama ACCS, which licenses private schools in AL, shows New Charter University approved for a variety of programs, no longer lists Andrew Jackson.
http://www.accs.cc/Courses.aspx?SchoolID=46

The DETC directory no longer lists AJU, shows the listing as New Charter University.
http://www.detc.org/school_details.php?id=173

New Charter University has a Facebook page with not much useful info: http://www.facebook.com/newuniversity?sk...ty?sk=info

A good reason to take those classes online, guys.

Quote:Phyllis Schlafly
College May Be Dangerous for Men
9/13/2011

College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority, but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules.

In another striking proof that the Obama administration is totally manipulated by feminists, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent out a 19-page "DCL" (Dear Colleague Letter) to colleges and universities that should make men fear attending college at all. The letter adopts the feminist theory that in all sexual controversies or accusations, the man is guilty unless he proves himself innocent.

This DCL carries the force of law, since it purports to be an additional implementation of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that bans sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal assistance. But the DCL was never legislated by Congress, and it was not even launched as a regulation that requires posting for comment in the Federal Register.

The DCL is just a federal order, issued by a feminist bureaucrat named Russlynn Ali, which colleges and universities must obey under threat of losing their funding. Colleges have dutifully fallen in line by spelling it out in their fall orientations under the rubric of making campuses friendly to women and requiring sensitivity about offensive words and ideas.

The most unconstitutional part of Ali's impertinent DCL is that it orders colleges to reject use of the criminal justice standard of proof. The DCL rules that an accused man doesn't have to be judged guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt," or even the intermediate standard of "clear and convincing" proof.

Instead, Ms. Ali instructs colleges that they must judge an accused man based on "a preponderance of the evidence" standard. That means the campus disciplinary board (which may include feminist faculty from the Women's Studies Department) only has to believe that the female accuser is 51 percent likely to be truthful and accurate.

Furthermore, the DCL "strongly discourages" colleges from permitting an accused man "to question or cross-examine the accuser" during the hearing. And appeals must be available to both parties, which subjects the guy to double jeopardy.

The punishment of a man convicted under these DCL rules will far exceed what the campus disciplinary committee may hand out. He will likely be expelled, barred from graduate or professional school and some government jobs, suffer irreparable damage to his reputation, and possibly be exposed to criminal prosecution.

The feminist apparatus is constantly grinding out phony statistics about sexual assault and harassment, accusations that men are naturally batterers, and that women never lie or make errors in sexual allegations. The feminists are unrepentant about the way they and the prosecutors (toadying to the feminists) accepted and publicized lies that destroyed the reputations of the Duke lacrosse men and of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Another monster that hangs over the heads of college students is the increasing evidence that college is a bad financial investment that will saddle students with debt they can never escape. Pro-college ads from organizations like How To E-D-U and KnowHow2Go are seductive: "College graduates can make a million dollars more in their lifetimes than those who don't go to college."

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, 17 million college-educated Americans are now working jobs for which they are overqualified. The BLS reports that hundreds of thousands of college graduates are working as waiters, secretaries, receptionists, laborers or janitors, all respectable occupations but not jobs that will enable them to repay their five- or even six-digit college loans.

The current student loan debt, now $830 billion, is bigger than credit-card debt and growing at the rate of $90 billion a year. Only 40 percent of that debt is actively being repaid, and students are not permitted to escape that debt burden through bankruptcy, so we may be headed for a student-loan bubble like the housing bubble.

The one project that received an increased appropriation in the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling was more money to subsidize students to go to college. Loaning taxpayers' money to students to go to college makes no sense and is hurtful even to the students who get the money.

If students were working a 48-hour-a-week night job, as I did when I worked my way through college, they wouldn't have time to get into the mischief referenced by the recent DCL or to attend drinking parties, and they wouldn't accumulate the indebtedness that will burden their lives for decades.

For encouragement, they can read Zac Bissonnette's helpful book, "Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching Off My Parents." Alternatively, students can get a job that doesn't require a college education.