Here is yet another bunch of scum who is polluting the internet with lies and bullshit.

http://diplomamillnews.blogspot.com/

Does anyone have any dirt on this site? Who runs this anyway?

Its on Blogspot which is a pretty basic service that anyone can get an account at for free but this one seems to get a lot of recognition from all the elitists out there.

Salami? I like 'em, y'all. I like them salami, y'hear.

It's the language of the future. Who knew?

Quote:Mandatory Arabic Classes Coming To Texas
Written by CAA National on February 08, 2011, 04:09 PM

Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language. The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.

The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant was awarded to Mansfield ISD last summer by the U.S. Department of Education.

As part of the five-year $1.3 million grant, Arabic classes would be mandatory at Cross Timbers Intermediate School and Kenneth Davis Elementary School. The program would also be optional for students at T. A. Howard Middle School and Summit High School.

Parents at Cross Timbers say they were caught off-guard by the program, and were surprised the district only told them about it in a meeting Monday night between parents and Mansfield ISD Superintendent Bob Morrison.

The DOE has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’ But parent Joseph Balson was frustrated by the past. “Why are we just now finding out about it?” asked Balson. “It’s them (Mansfield ISD) applying for the grant, getting it approved and them now saying they’ll go back and change it only when they were caught trying to implement this plan without parents knowing about it.”

Quote:Sometimes students cheat, here's three ways we do it
Posted by Suzanne Craig Main Feature, News Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Online classes are growing increasingly popular, so too are the chances to abuse the honor system. After all, there isn/t any instructor sitting to watch, or hovering over suspicious characters. While this list might seem rudimentary to a particularly clever student, these are the three main ways students can cheat online classes:

1. Group testing

This is one common enough most students don't even consider it cheating. Students still have to do some of the work, so it's not like the entire class is just being skipped over. When it comes to take home or online tests and quizzes, many instructors say 'Do not work together!"

Right. Each person in the group does sections of problems correctly, then swaps them with the group to get the test done. This doesn't work as well for English classes where there is reading, essays and definite plagiarism detection worries. But with math, technical subjects and terminology courses where there are only so many ways to write the same thing, this method of cheating is clean and easy.

2. Fair trade agreements

In this case, it is most beneficial if you have taken an online class yourself and need to take another one. The ideal symbiotic relationship would be you taking a class again for someone else and your trade partner taking the class you don't want to do in exchange, preferably one they have already taken. Another, harder route: You do two of one class and someone else does two of another, each of you signed on once as yourself, and once as the other person. Half the studying involved, but a fair amount of writing, typing and anti-plagiarism detection efforts.

3. Pay your friend -- or your neighbor

Pay someone. Find someone who has already taken the class, say, English 102. There are a lot of online options. Generally, the person should have good grades, wants to make some easy cash and be reasonably good at altering documents so plagiarism detectors don't go off. After all, they already have the essays and know most of the material -- why not make some money for it? Depending on the individual asked, the going rate for a class is anywhere from $50- a few hundred bucks, depending on the material studied and the actual work involved.


Have you ever cheated online?
Nope, I'm honest Abe. (68%, 23 Votes)
Yes, I've taken an individual quiz or test with a group. (18%, 6 Votes)
Yes, I paid someone to take an online class for me. (12%, 4 Votes)
Yes, I swapped online classes with someone. (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 34


Do you think cheating in an online class is immoral?
Yes (65%, 20 Votes)
No (35%, 11 Votes)
Total Voters: 31


What do you think should be done to people caught cheating for the first time?
They should get one warning. (73%, 22 Votes)
They should be expelled. (27%, 8 Votes)
Nothing should happen to them. (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 30

Student voices: Would you pay someone to take your online class for you?


Aron Lupton, 20, kinesiology, sophomore, Nampa
"If I didn't really like the class, I would think about it."


Andrea Korn, 23, English, senior, Boise
"I'm good at English, so I wouldn't need anyone to take it for me -- (but) professors should expect that we can look up answers online if they tell us to take an online test."


Cassie Tipton, 22, physical education, senior, Buhl
"I have done group testing. Might as well use your resources if you have them."


Zac Broadie, 27, radiology, sophomore, Hailey
"There is no need for someone to take it for you if you have your book."

Quote:Well, that was fast. Barely more than two years since opening it, the Apollo Group Inc. is folding Meritus University after finding that the Canada-based online cousin of the University of Phoenix was a flop with students. “Despite our best efforts, we have concluded that there is a high risk that enrollment will continue to be insufficient to sustain the required quality academic and student-service infrastructure we and our students demand,” the company said in statement. Since opening, in the fall of 2008, Meritus has drawn only 722 students, and only 590 of them earned any credits. Students enrolled from now until the last class, on March 14, are already being advised of their transfer options, a company official said.

From the mainstream media:

Quote:Cal State Northridge professor charged with allegedly urinating on colleague's office door
January 26, 2011 | 7:27 pm

A [regionally accredited] Cal State Northridge math professor has been charged with urinating on a colleague's office door during a dispute between the two men.

Tihomir Petrov, 43, is facing two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place, according to a copy of a complaint filed in Superior Court.

Petrov is expected to be arraigned Thursday in San Fernando, authorities said. The case stems from a dispute that Petrov allegedly had with another professor in the school's math department, authorities said.

Petrov was allegedly captured in early December on videotape urinating on the door of another professor's office in Santa Susana Hall, according to authorities. School officials had concealed a camera nearby after discovering puddles of what they thought was urine at the professor's door.

I can't say that I'm suprised. Actually I thought that the chances he would complete the PhD or ThD were about the same as the chance of Johann staying away from DD until 2012. Too bad, as I have always liked and respected Jimmy Clifton (and still do). A doctoral program that includes a diss is a serious undertaking on multiple levels. I give all the more credit to Bill Grover and the late Uncle J (has it been 2-years already?) for obtaining their doctoral degrees later in their respective careers.

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Quote:The Assassination Attempt You Have Not Heard Of
Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)
Monday, January 24th at 5:00AM EST

The American Thinker brings us word of an attempted assassination you probably have never heard of.

It happened in September of 2010 in Missouri. A 22 year old named Casey Brezik, wearing a bullet proof vest, charged toward Missouri’s Democratic Governor Jay Nixon with a knife and attempted to slash his throat.

In light of the media’s race to talk about the right’s climate of hateful rhetoric, you have probably guessed by now that Casey Brezik was an anti-Christian, anti-capitalist leftist who participated in a number of leftwing protests. He was also a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic.

Luckily for all involved, Brezik was high on pot at the time and got confused. Instead of slashing the Governor’s throat, he slashed the throat of a community college dean he took for the Governor.

Jack Cashill, writing at the American Thinker, notes

Quote:In his “About Me” box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins “Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism” and gets more belligerent from there.

On his wall postings, Brezik ranted, “How are we the radical(s) (left) to confront the NEW RIGHT, if we avoid confrontation all together?”

As good as his word, Brezik’s marched on Toronto in June 2010 to protest the G20 Summit, where he was arrested, charged, and deported. “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED,” he boasted.

Given what we have seen come out of Arizona, we can establish two things as fact. First, had Governor Nixon been harmed in any way, the media would have immediately begun lamenting the tea party movement and “political rhetoric.” Second, had the injuries been as they were, but Brezik had listed himself as a Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh fan on his Facebook wall, the media would have covered this exactly as they covered Arizona.

Quote:Violent Crime
Casey Brezik: Paranoid Schizophrenic Intended to Kill Gov. Jay Nixon
By Chad Garrison, Thu., Sep. 16 2010


Brezik: Wore bullet-proof vest to school Tuesday.

​The man who allegedly stabbed a community college official on Tuesday just before a scheduled appearance of Governor Jay Nixon had intended to kill the governor.

The Kansas City Star reports that 22-year-old Casey Brezik, a student at [regionally accredited] Metropolitan Community College -- Penn Valley, thought he had stabbed the governor and was disappointed when learning that the victim was actually the school's dean of instruction, Al Dimmit Jr., who survived the attack.

The paper reports that Brezik was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia several years ago and had only recently enrolled at the community college. His family says Brezik has a habit of writing anti-government rants on his Facebook page. In 2007 he was committed to mental hospitals at least four times and convicted of drug possession. He wears an anarchist symbol tattoo on his arm.

Authorities believe Brezik doesn't have a particular beef with Nixon, but wanted him killed because he is the state's highest elected official.

Brezik reportedly wore a bullet-proof vest to school Tuesday morning. The stabbing occurred around 9:35 a.m. in the hallway outside a computer lab where the governor was supposed to give a 10 a.m. speech on a high-speed Internet initiative. Nixon subsequently canceled the event.

Dimmit is recovering from his wounds and expects to return to his job soon. Also injured in the melee was the school's chancellor, Mark James, who was cut while wrestling Brezik off Dimmit. James says he'll use the incident to tighten security and review emergency procedures at the school.

Quote:January 21, 2011
Left wing climate of hate and assassination
Jack Cashill

Successful propaganda is composed of equal parts deception and suppression, and the apparatchiks in the mainstream media are much better at the latter.

They may have erred in pushing the Arizona assassination attempt beyond its ideological limits last week, but they succeeded brilliantly a few months earlier in suppressing news of a nearly lethal attempt by a genuine leftist.

In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.

At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.

The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.

Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others.

In his "About Me" box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins "Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism" and gets more belligerent from there.

On his wall postings, Brezik ranted, "How are we the radical(s) (left) to confront the NEW RIGHT, if we avoid confrontation all together?"

As good as his word, Brezik's marched on Toronto in June 2010 to protest the G20 Summit, where he was arrested, charged, and deported. "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED," he boasted.

Like many on the left, Brezik seemed to have found religion.

In reference to an article about Terry Jones and his proposed Quran burning, Brezik posted on the day before his planned assault, "This is now a Holy war. Scriptures have been desecrated. War U can't handle. Make a choice and quick."

No doubt, Brezik is something of a whack job, but the various rages that he acquired -culminating in Sudden Jihadi Syndrome - are those to which our students are exposed on a daily basis. For the last century or more, it is the progressive fever swamps that have nurtured most of the world's hate and virtually all of its violence, including, paradoxically, radical Islam.

As Casey Berzik cried out with multicultural flair, "El Futuro es La REVOLUCION!" But if an assassin strikes in a media vacuum, and no one hears him, can there ever be a revolution?

Trident??

Is that because some of the profs only had three teeth?

Or is that because all the students get pronged three times?

Quote:TUI University Announces New Name
Jan 17, 2011 Mark Butler

TUI University, formerly Touro University International before it was sold to Summit Partners announces that its new name is Trident University International.
 
Since the beginning of 2011, TUI University has been teasing visitors to its web site with "The New TUI" and on Friday, January 14, 2011 the university sent an e-mail to its students and alumni that the school's name would be changed to Trident University International effective January 24, 2011.

History of Trident University International

While many universities have had name changes over the years, Trident is now on its third name since it was established as Touro University International in 1998 in Cypress, California as an online extension of Touro College in New York. In 2007, Touro College sold the online university to Summit Partners of Boston Ma. With the name change to Trident University International the university continues to make use of its original initials of TUI but now they stand for words instead of just initials as it was for three years. The school had received feedback from numerous students about the need for a name and some people looking into the school often asked what TUI stood for without getting an acceptable answer.

Trident University International is an online university serving all members of the U.S. military family and numerous other adult learners. The university is accreditation by Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges. TUI is the only online university offering a PhD to obtain WASC accreditation. Other online universalities [sic], such as Northcentral University in Arizona and the University of Phoenix also offers a PhD but these schools accreditation from the North Central Association Higher Learning Commission which has faced criticism in the past for being somewhat lax.

About the New Name

The new name, Trident, was presented to the students and alumni with the explanation that the three prongs represented the schools commitment to Academic Excellence, Compassionate Student Support and Unparalleled Access and that it also paid tribute to the schools pioneering history in online education by representing the three components of the school's course delivery model: Case Assignments, Session Long Projects and Threaded Discussions. It also represents the school's three degree levels: Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. Finally, it also fits in with the three words of Trident's motto: Aspire, Believe and Achieve!

Abraham Lincoln U in Los Angeles, CA joins the ranks of DETC-accredited law schools (Taft, Northwestern California and Concord being the others).

Quote:Abraham Lincoln University Accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council

January 14, 2011 – On behalf of the Abraham Lincoln University faculty and staff, it is a pleasure to announce that the university is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council. The Accrediting Commission is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency and is a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
. . .
Roy Winter
President and CEO

Quote:Good news: Study confirms that college is pretty much a total waste of time
posted at 9:17 pm on January 19, 2011 by Allahpundit

You don’t even need to read the article; just follow the link and check out the graph in the left-hand sidebar.

What’s tuition up to these days at private universities, parents? About $30-35,000?

Quote:Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority, a new report shows.

Instructors tend to be more focused on their own faculty research than teaching younger students, who in turn are more tuned in to their social lives, according to the report, based on a book titled

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Findings are based on transcripts and surveys of more than 3,000 full-time traditional-age students on 29 campuses nationwide, along with their results on the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test that gauges students’ critical thinking, analytic reasoning and writing skills.

After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.

Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows.

Despite learning a little bit of jack and a whole lot of squat, students in the survey nonetheless managed a 3.2 GPA on average according to the study’s author, which tells you most of what you need to know about grade inflation and the rigors of modern higher learning. Another fun detail from the same study via McClatchy:

Quote:Many of the students graduated without knowing how to sift fact from opinion, make a clear written argument or objectively review conflicting reports of a situation or event, according to New York University sociologist Richard Arum, lead author of the study. The students, for example, couldn’t determine the cause of an increase in neighborhood crime or how best to respond without being swayed by emotional testimony and political spin…

The study’s authors also found that large numbers of students didn’t enroll in courses requiring substantial work. In a typical semester, a third of students took no courses with more than 40 pages of reading per week. Half didn’t take a single course in which they wrote more than 20 pages over the semester.

If you think false media narratives are easily absorbed now, wait until the Leaders of Tomorrow graduate and take their place in society. I keep thinking that the combination of a poor economy and ludicrous higher-education costs will solve this problem to some degree by re-normalizing the idea of entering the labor force after high school. If you’re a kid who’s unenthused about incurring a mountain of debt for the privilege of four more years of study with no guarantee of finding a job afterward to fund the repayment, why not pound the pavement for an entry-level/trainee position somewhere instead? The pay will be rotten to start and the lack of a diploma will make some future employers think twice, but in the meantime you’re debt-free and building skills — and if I’m right about re-normalization, the “no diploma” stigma will fade a bit culturally over time. The one flaw in my theory: Er, there are no entry-level jobs out there for kids, are there?

Something to inspire you while you ponder. Mild content warning.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1944515