Adjudicated civil rights violator and admitted pervert Alan Contreras has finally thrown in the towel. In fact, the deviant and Christian-hater gave it up back in April, but the good news is only now filtering through the internet.

Bill Huffman Wrote:Is Contreras still in charge at the ODA? Does anyone know? I wrote a letter to the ODA this week and got a reply that my message was being forwarded to the "interim director".

SteveFoerster Wrote:No, he's been gone for a while now.

John Bear Wrote:...Contreras retired last April.

Be American, buy American! Well that es-splains it......he ain't American so he don't buy American.

Quote:Canucklehead Obama bus-ted!
By GEOFF EARLE Post Correspondent
Last Updated: 9:46 AM, August 17, 2011

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is barnstorming the heartland to boost US jobs in a taxpayer-financed luxury bus the government had custom built -- in Canada, The Post has learned.

The $1.1 million vehicle, one of two that Quebec-based Prevost sold the government, has been tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features and creature comforts.

It's a VIP H3-45 model, the company's top of the line, and is used by major traveling rock bands.

"That's the more luxurious model," Christine Garant of Prevost told The Post.


COOL RIDE, EH! It's the only way to travel for President Obama, who is pushing American jobs -- in a Canadian-made bus.


"When we have the Country Music Awards, we sometimes see a lot of them," she said, noting that Kid Rock, David Lee Roth and Kenny Rogers also have owned them.

Obama's new ride is equipped to carry all the baggage a president needs -- including the "football" that allows him to remotely control US nuclear weapons.

There's electronic equipment allowing Obama to communicate and teleconference worldwide.

Like his GM-built limousine, nicknamed "The Beast," the bus has armored doors.

The president also has large flat-screen TV sets and comfortable couches.

There's a bathroom, but unlike on Air Force One, no sleeping area.

The bus was ordered by the Secret Service in July 2010 and delivered two months ago.

The feds bought the two coaches for $2.2 million from Hemphill Brothers Coach, based in Tennessee. It installed custom interior upgrades into the Prevost shell, which accounted for about half the cost.

The contract lists the country of origin as Canada and place of manufacture as "outside U.S. - Trade Agreements," a possible reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Hemphill wouldn't comment on the bus. But an ad on its Web site for a similar bus costing $100,000 less than what has been dubbed "Greyhound One" boasts: "This coach is appointed with the finest materials and the latest in high tech electronics and was built for a top entertainer to travel efficiently without losing the luxuries of home.

"It is the perfect coach for entertainers, sports stars, NASCAR drivers, executive travel, or anyone accustomed to the very best."

Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, said, "There are certain security and communications equipment that we'll have in there. It's just a better situation for us rather than leasing something and then putting in temporary equipment."

Hemphill Brothers lists Beyoncé, Cher, KISS, Van Halen, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and Pope Benedict XVI as clients on its Web site.

The Secret Service says the buses will be available to other protectees who travel by bus, which could include the 2012 GOP presidential nominee.

The odd thing about this press release is that the author's website has UMUC at number nine, not UMCP. When the top ten list author mixes up the schools you have to wonder what else he mixed up in arriving at his list.

Isn't "Ellis College of NYIT" now Ellis University and having some serious accreditation issues?

Hmmm, seems like Dr. DiUlus might want to look in the mirror, sharpen his pencil and make a list of Best Worst Top Ten List Providers.

Quote:Top Ten 2011 Online Universities in the World

Top ten online universities in the world according to BEST WORST ONLINE DEGREE PROGRAM PROVIDERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) - Jul 26, 2011 - Four of the top ten online universities in the world are not "Made in the USA" Three international schools covet the top slots according to Dr. Fred DiUlus, the author of the 2011 8th annual edition of the BEST WORST ONLINE DEGREE PROGRAM PROVIDERS.

Dr. DiUlus, an online education pioneer and father of online higher education rating and rankings is the CEO and founder of Global Academy Online, Inc. He examines online program providers with a refined proprietary five point rating scale he invented almost thirty years ago. Of great importance to the ratings he says is the quality and contribution to the value of the institution by their online faculty, whether full-time or adjunct.

Some, perhaps many schools today, in an attempt to catch up seem to be drawn to doing it for all the wrong reasons. This, DiUlus offers, is brought on by the reality of faculty and program cutbacks due to harsh economic times. He says, “Criticism erupts with an oft repeated admonishment that schools are chasing a misperception that online classes are their salvation.”

Many traditionalists fear online academic rigor and quality suffer because of false hope. DiUlus agrees but not because he sees schools as ill intentioned to make a financial killing but as he describes it “ill prepared and unknowing what it takes to run successful and respected online degree programs.” He reveals that over 80 of the several hundred schools currently ranked easily fall into that category.

The 2011 top ten ONLINE degree program providers are:
1. University of London, #1 in the world for eight consecutive years.
2. University of South Africa, #1 in Africa.
3. University of Southern Queensland, #1 in Australasia.
4. University of Phoenix, #1 in America. Largest university in North America that made being online legitimate. Copied but not eclipsed.
5. Jones International University, conceived, created, and designed to be a world leader in online higher education.
6. Golden Gate University, a downtown San Francisco trolley car school that has international and worldwide appeal.
7. University of Liverpool, an international school with appeal to American students for both traditional and online programs.
8. Ellis College of NYIT, a northeast, USA competitive giant with programs, faculty and marketing to go with...
9. University of Maryland College Park, Made study abroad fashionable. Online programs and faculty are highly competitive.
10. Drexel University, a class performer that has sought to make their online programs among the best in the world.

If a college is not in the current eBook, it may be under current study, too new to rank, or just not worthy at this time because of the school’s lack of current experience in offering online programs. If it is an accredited college offering online programs and not yet listed, Dr. DiUlus says it is already targeted for review and will be included in future editions of the Best Worst Online Degree Program Providers.

The eBook is a free download from Global Academy Online, Inc and several other education support organizations.

Quote:For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide Fraud
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: August 8, 2011

The Department of Justice and four states on Monday filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, charging that it was not eligible for the $11 billion in state and federal financial aid it had received from July 2003 through June 2011.

While the civil lawsuit is one of many raising similar charges against the expanding for-profit college industry, the case is the first in which the government intervened to back whistle-blowers’ claims that a company consistently violated federal law by paying recruiters based on how many students it enrolled. The suit said that each year, Education Management falsely certified that it was complying with the law, making it eligible to receive student financial aid.

“The depth and breadth of the fraud laid out in the complaint are astonishing,” said Harry Litman, a lawyer in Pittsburgh and former federal prosecutor who is one of those representing the two whistle-blowers whose 2007 complaints spurred the suit. “It spans the entire company — from the ground level in over 100 separate institutions up to the most senior management — and accounts for nearly all the revenues the company has realized since 2003.”

Education Management, which is based in Pittsburgh and is 41 percent owned by Goldman Sachs, enrolls about 150,000 students in 105 schools operating under four names: Art Institute, Argosy University, Brown Mackie College and South University.

In a statement Monday, the company denied any wrongdoing.

“The pursuit of this legal action by the federal government and a handful of states is flat-out wrong,” said Bonnie Campbell, a spokeswoman for the company’s legal counsel. “EDMC’s 2003 compensation plan followed the law in both its design and implementation, as EDMC’s response to the governments’ complaint will show.”

“Federal regulations issued in 2002 permitted companies to consider enrollments in admission officer compensation, so long as enrollments were not the sole factor considered,” the statement continued. “To ensure compliance with this regulation, EDMC worked closely with outside experts in both human resources and education law to develop a plan that required consideration of five quality factors along with enrollment numbers to determine salaries.”

The government’s incentive compensation ban was designed to stop companies from signing up unqualified students for their aid money. The False Claims Act, the basis for the government’s lawsuit, provides for triple damages, and since the complaint said all the government student aid came from such claims, the damages could be as much as $33 billion. As a practical matter, though, such huge cases are usually settled for far less than the maximum damages.

Since 1986, the government has recovered more than $25 billion in false-claim cases, many of them based on pharmaceutical company marketing, hospitals overbilling or defense contractor fraud. Given their explosive growth, for-profit colleges — which now serve more than 10 percent of the students enrolled in higher education, yet account for about half of all defaults on student loans — could become a new prime source for such cases.

According to the 122-page complaint, Education Management got $2.2 billion of federal financial aid in fiscal 2010, making up 89.3 percent of its net revenues.

The states joining in the suit are California, Florida, Illinois and Indiana.

The complaint said the company had a “boiler-room style sales culture” in which recruiters were instructed to use high-pressure sales techniques and inflated claims about career placement to increase student enrollment, regardless of applicants’ qualifications. Recruiters were encouraged to enroll even applicants who were unable to write coherently, who appeared to be under the influence of drugs or who sought to enroll in an online program but had no computer.

According to the suit, recruiters were also led to exploit applicants’ psychological vulnerabilities — for example, a parent’s hopes of moving a child out of a dangerous neighborhood.

Under the False Claims Act, individual whistle-blowers can file suits charging that the government has been defrauded, leaving the government the option to intervene. Either way, the government gets the majority of any money recovered; the whistle-blowers also get a share.

The Justice Department, which has declined to intervene in two dozen whistle-blower suits charging for-profit colleges with fraudulent recruiting practices, said in May that it would act against Education Management, four years after a complaint filed by two former employees: Lynntoya Washington, an assistant director of admissions at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division, and Michael T. Mahoney, the director of training for the Online Higher Education Division.

Publicly traded for-profit college companies have recently been a target both of government scrutiny and whistle-blower suits. In 2009, the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, the largest for-profit college, settled a whistle-blower case for $78 million.

The complaint noted that Todd Nelson, the chief executive of Education Management, previously headed the University of Phoenix. At Phoenix, he signed a $9.8 million settlement with the Department of Education, which had found that Phoenix had “systematically and intentionally” violated federal rules against paying recruiters for students. Phoenix never admitted any wrongdoing in either that settlement or the larger whistle-blower settlement two years ago.

The Justice Department complaint said Education Management’s compensation system was similar to the one at Phoenix; company officials have said it was set up long before Mr. Nelson joined it in 2007.

In 2003, Education Management’s chief executive was Jock McKernan, a former governor of Maine who now serves as chairman of the board. Mr. McKernan is married to Senator Olympia J. Snowe, a Maine Republican whose 2010 financial disclosure form lists Education Management stock and options worth $2 million to $10 million.

Hi-I just joined so I apologize if I am posting this in the wrong place. I don't see a separate category for religious schools, so I will put it here.

Has anyone heard of United Theology College? http://www.unitedtheology.org/contact-us.html

Their website is very sparse. No listing of faculty, accreditation or fees for that matter. The want $50 for your application. Seems curious at best.

Not that interested in the school without more info.

thanks,

peterhoward (PH)

Now we know why the Bollin Grat (aka Chlamydia Loots-Gollin) was so busy cleaning up its filthy blogs from the internet--it wanted to win a prize.

And sure enough, it fooled the government clowns who award Fulbright Fellowships. But it looks like a rare case of taxpayer money well spent--anything that even temporarily rids the country of plague, pestilence or gollins has got to be a good thing.

Quote:Oberlin Students and Alumna Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Fellowships
Jun. 09, 2011

Five graduating seniors and one recent graduate will spend the next academic year abroad pursuing independent study or teaching English while gaining a deeper understanding of their host countries as members of the 2011-2012 class of Fulbright scholars.

The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, is designed to increase mutual understanding between the United States and people of other countries. The program provides participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential—with a one-year opportunity to travel to a foreign country to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

This year, Oberlin has eight winners out of 19 applicants — a high success rate compared with the national average, says Michael Fisher, Robert S. Danforth Professor of History and a faculty Fulbright program advisor. Of the winners, Andrew Flachs ’11 decided instead to accept a Jacob K. Javits fellowship.

Nationally, an average of 10 percent of applicants from a single college or university receive the fellowship.

“The competition is extremely competitive,” Fisher says. That Oberlin produces so many Fulbrights is attributed to “the high quality of graduating seniors, the value of their proposed works, their thoughtful and persuasive project essays, and the extended advising and support by Oberlin administrators and faculty members.”

Established in 1946, the Fulbright program is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide. Approximately 1,500 U.S students receive Fulbright scholarships each year. For more information, visit the Fulbright Program website.

Oberlin’s 2011-2012 winners include:

Charlotte Beers ’11 will study organ and conducting in Germany.

Helen Burns ’11 will teach English in Russia.

Jonathan Doucette ‘11 will teach English in the Slovak Republic.

Cordelia Loots-Gollin ‘ 11 will teach English in Poland.

Elena Rippel ’10 will teach English in Germany.

Katie Thompson ‘ 11 will teach English in Costa Rica.

Theodore Waddelow ’11 will return to Bahrain to study the ancient Dilmun civilization

. . .

Cordelia Loots-Gollin will be an English teaching assistant at a university in Szczecin, Poland. She is graduating with a double major in comparative American studies and gender, sexuality and feminist studies (GSFS). Her honors thesis in GSFS examined the ways that language used by the Centers for Disease Control in its HIV prevention materials possibly furthers systems of marginalization. On campus, she is an HIV peer tester. She has taught German during summer breaks, and she looks forward to improving her Polish language skills.

“I'm very grateful to my advisors, departments and the Fulbright application team for all the support and encouragement they've given me during this process,” Loots-Gollin says. “I'll miss the incredibly supportive environment of Oberlin and the friends I've made here, but I also feel that the past four years have prepared me to start this next adventure.”

After the Fulbright year, she plans to pursue a master’s degree in social work.

Yes, the alma mater of both Jimmy Clifton and the thankfully departed Uncle Jerkoff has been declared among the top ten hipster schools by no less an authority than Huffpost College. Something to keep in mind when you read their political crap.

Quote:The Most Hipster Colleges
First Posted: 7/14/11 09:45 AM ET | Updated: 7/14/11 03:46 PM ET

Way back in 2010, we ranked America's top 10 hipster schools to much fanfare. Tiny Hampshire College in Massachusetts was voted the "most" hipster school in the nation, prompting its then-president, Ralph Hexter, to dub himself "Hipster in Chief."

We couldn't let 2011 pass us by without ranking the country's most prominent hipster schools. This year, we scoured the country for campuses where skinny jeans, American Spirits and Moleskins are de rigueur. Check out our winners below -- and let the intellectual debate rage in the comments section.
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According to one astute review on College Prowler, there are "a crap load of dirty hipsters" at Earlham College in Indiana. "If you don't like PBR [Pabst Blue Ribbon], find somewhere else," the reviewer wrote. O-kay. On a more positive note, the Hipster Handbook reports that "Hipsters tend to receive a strong education at Earlham because there is nothing else to do but study in Richmond, Indiana."

http://www.cheyenneherald.com/_pdf/2011/...ge%207.pdf

See "Now ain't that something."

That same old basement dweller from Cheyenne just went on another rant.
And as usual he is targeting the "Nazis" from Warren National University.

I am guessing that since he got so much mileage from his rants against the so called "diploma mills" in his own state that, even after they left, he needs to do what he can to stay relevant. Its hard when you publish a paper in a town of 60K people, and when you had already pissed off half its residents, to stay in business, especially when you have nothing to say.

So do you think he just happened to watch The Blues Brothers one time too many?


I hate Illinois Nazis!

We all have read how certain groups are disadvantaged...chicano, women, GLBT, queer, genocide, ethnic, african etc studies...you may or may not get your readers on their knees adding how many millions of them died at the hands of [insert evil here].
You may read how these groups have it tougher than X (typically white ...ists).

Well...

Quote:This could help solve one of
the education sector’s major
concerns – that the lack of male
teachers is leading to a lack of
success among boys. In Wales,
there are more than 11,800
female primary teachers whereas
less than 2,150 are male.