Small wonder Gollin decided to proclaim himself an expert in a field in which he had no training or experience.  His old job is rapidly becoming obsolete.

Who needs a boring dumbass droning on and on when you can dial up a YouTube video from somebody who actually knows what he’s talking about?

Quote:Are Teachers Becoming Obsolete?
How the Internet is slowly replacing formal education
By Scott Ijaz

From good-natured websites that provide free medical advice, to disturbing ones that explain how to build a firework bomb out of an onion and tin foil, digital dilettantes can learn all sorts of things by surfing the Web. Students often use the Internet's broad array of information to educate themselves.

By presenting course material as a teacher would, websites cater to students who prefer teaching themselves by simplifying the self-education process.

Selfscholar.com organizes and connects students with academic tools and resources. The website provides links for free downloadable textbooks, assembles learning communities comprised of students from all over the world who are interested in learning the same topic, and even has a section that teaches languages. Selfscholar.com also has a feature that allows its "students" to instant message a live tutor.

Mike Spuzzilo, a second year mechanical engineering major, said about the site, "Everything you need is in one spot. If I come across a tough homework problem, I can type it into YouTube," he said, adding, "A digital teacher will appear, taking me step by step with a similar problem."

Spuzzilo remarked that the process makes more sense to him. "I learn easier that way," he said.

He notes that the Internet better meets his needs. "[The resources online] are accessible whenever you can get an Internet connection. University teachers can only help out as their schedule permits. It is much more convenient," Spuzzilo said.

Top tier schools like The London School of Economics, MIT and Yale embrace the advent of self-educational websites through Open Course Software. Open Course Software streams recorded lectures from the classroom into the audience's room. The Internet viewer who doesn't drop a dime experiences the same explanations as the students in the classroom who pay high-end tuition dollars.

Nathan Shubick, a second year student studying physics, better comprehended the online explanation than the classroom's. "I went to the oyc.yale.edu, and listened to one of their teachers explain the same material on a podcast," remarked Shubick.

Shubick favored the Internet source over his classroom teacher. "Turns out, the Yale professor authored the textbook which my university teacher refers to in class. It was easier to learn coming from the horse's mouth," he said.

With such an ample and diverse array of resources, students question emptying their pockets to pay for university tuition if the same material is accessible on the Internet without charge.

Karen Diaz, the librarian at OSU responsible for managing online courses, emphasized the advantages of university schooling while pinpointing the shortcomings of an online education.

Diaz stressed the importance of learning in person. "First-hand experience are things you cannot experience in a free online environment," she said. Whereas the classroom is geared toward meeting individual's needs, the Internet tries to accommodate the larger population.

Supporters of formal education believe that student peers and mentors improve the structure of the overall learning environment. "You have the chance to interact with the instructor, ask questions, seek clarification or alternate explanations, and seek out help outside of class," Diaz said.

State-of-the-art facilities add another important dimension to the educational setting by applying what a student learns into everyday life. "There is a big difference between knowing how to do a lab involving a titrate and actually doing it," Diaz said.

The large quantity of online information doesn't necessarily ensure its quality. Diaz encouraged students to check their resources. "There's likely to be someone without any background in a subject producing material as well. Anyone can put content on the Web," she said.

The anonymity of sources can also lead to a misinformation effect. With one trillion URLs, a few are likely to contradict. One website, for example, explicitly states that the United States has 52 states. If a person comes in with a bias, they can find information to back it up whether it is true or false.

Chris Dougherty, a second year political science major, also questioned the average student's motivation to learn. "I don't think the typical person would have the insight, know-how, and commitment to actually educate themselves online. Most people need to be forced," he said.

Diaz acknowledged the existence of different learning styles. "Some people may learn material more easily than others in an unstructured free online environment. Others do not. Some people need the structure associated with traditional classes. Others do not," she said.

A free online education also doesn't have the capacity to provide a diploma, and the absence of a diploma can prove seriously problematic when applying for jobs.

"The advantage of the degree is to show that the person has received a sufficient level of knowledge in a subject matter to have been granted that degree," Diaz said.


Originally Published: May 19, 2010

Quote:Best and Worst Master's Degrees for Jobs
MBAs, Computer Degrees Rank High; Social Work, Education Rank Low
By Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes.com
May 23, 2010

Shane Tysinger had a lifelong interest in medicine, but the Davidson County, N.C., high school science teacher had only dabbled in health care, holding a couple of medical assistant jobs before becoming a teacher. At his school he was the first responder for any type of medical emergency.

In 2006, looking for a full-time career in medicine, Tysinger entered the two-year physician assistant master's program at Duke University--the birthplace of the physician assistant program. Good choice. Tysinger graduated in 2008, in the middle of a recession, but says there were jobs everywhere for students in his graduating class. Today he works in an Eden, N.C. clinic that focuses on family medicine. His salary has more than tripled from his days as a teacher. "I found the career I was meant to do," says Tysinger.

Look for more people to follow Tysinger back to school for a master's in physician assistant studies. The United States' new health care system will further exacerbate the shortage of doctors and increase the need for physician assistants who provide diagnostic and preventative health care services under the supervision of a doctor. Those job prospects--and the promise of hefty paychecks--put physician assistant degrees at the top of the heap in Forbes' first-ever look at the best master's degrees.

Colleges will hand out 1.6 million bachelor's degrees this year, according to the U.S. Census (another 762,000 students are on track for associate degrees). Yet with unemployment sitting at 9.9% and underemployment at 17.1%, many students are considering sitting out the anemic job market and pursuing graduate degrees.

With this in mind, Forbes set out to determine which master's degrees would provide the best opportunities, based on salary and employment, over the next decade. We turned to Payscale.com, which lets users compare their salaries with those of other people in similar jobs by culling real-time salary data from its 16.5 million profiles.

Physician Assistants Do Well
Payscale looked at midcareer median pay for people possessing one of 30 common master's degrees. The typical worker for this group was 43 years old and had 15 years of work experience. Median salaries ranged from $121,000 for electrical engineering degrees to $53,500 for those with a master's in counseling. Payscale also provided the most common jobs for people who had earned any of these 30 degrees.

Next we looked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics to see how fast employment was expected to increase for these popular jobs over the next decade. We also considered the number of job openings based on replacement needs over the next 10 years. Physician assistants finished on top in both cases; 29,000 jobs should be added, a 39% increase over the next decade. And we'll need 57% more PAs when you factor in replacing those who will leave the field.

Another advantage of a physician's assistant degree: The prerequisites are not as narrow as other high-paying degrees, like engineering and physics, according to Al Lee, Payscale's director of quantitative analysis. Physician assistants can get undergrad degrees in almost any field, and only need to take a few science classes to prep for a master's program.

Compensation varies tremendously, based on career path, for many of the 30 degrees we looked at. An actuary with a master's in mathematics can hit a median midcareer pay of $157,000. But a high school teacher with the same degree may pull in a sight less robust $57,800.

Concentration within the degree makes a difference as well. M.B.A.s who focused on finance had median salaries of $124,000, while those in accounting took home only $72,500. "Not all M.B.A.s are created equal," says Payscale's Lee.

By our count, computer science is the second-best advanced degree, including for those who become IT consultants and senior software engineers. Median pay for these grads is $111,000, fourth best out of the 30 degrees in our survey. Employment opportunities for computer science degree-holders are expected to expand 27% over the next decade, fourth best among all disciplines.

Expensive Education Itch
The worst master's degrees pit career satisfaction against financial rewards. Getting a master's in education or social work (both rank near the bottom) can be gratifying, but costly. If you are still determined to take that route--and saddle yourself with $60,000 or more in debt at a private university--don't quit your day job. Median midcareer pay for both degrees is under $60,000, and employment growth is expected to be limited.

Jean Morse, associate dean of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, makes the case for an advanced degree, whether in English literature or computer science. "A master's improves general analytical skills and improves knowledge within the field," she says. "It also improves contacts within a field, as there is a networking element."

Quote:In Pictures: Best Master's Degrees For Jobs

No. 1: Physician Assistant Studies
Mid-career median pay: $98,900
Projected employment increase: 39%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 57%
Common jobs: Nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse specialist, director of nursing

No. 2: Computer Science
Mid-career median pay: $111,000
Projected employment increase: 27%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 39%
Common jobs: Database administrator, software architect, information technology consultant

No. 3: Civil Engineering
Mid-career median pay: $98,700
Projected employment increase: 24%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 41%
Common jobs: Project engineer, senior civil engineer, structural engineer

No. 4: Mathematics
Mid-career median pay: $96,900
Projected employment increase: 22%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 51%
Common jobs: Actuary, statistician, high school teacher

No. 5: Physics
Mid-career median pay: $110,000
Projected employment increase: 16%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 44%
Common jobs: Physicist, medical physicist, senior systems engineer
[PhD qualifies you for stalking, invading privacy, claiming to be an expert in other fields where you have no training or education]

No. 6: Information Technology
Mid-career median pay: $97,200
Projected employment increase: 29%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 39%
Common jobs: Information technology project manager, information technology specialist, software developer

No. 7: Human Resources Management
Mid-career median pay: $81,900
Projected employment increase: 22%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 47%
Common jobs: Human resources consultant, human resources manager, recruiter

No. 8: Economics
Mid-career median pay: $108,000
Projected employment increase: 19%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 38%
Common jobs: Economist, financial analyst, business analyst

No. 9: Geology
Mid-career median pay: $90,100
Projected employment increase: 17%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 44%
Common jobs: Environmental project manager, hydrogeologist, petroleum geologist

No. 10: Business (MBA)
Mid-career median pay: $109,000
Projected employment increase: 17%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 35%
Common jobs: Business development manager, management consultant, senior financial analyst

Quote:In Pictures: Worst Master's Degrees For Jobs

No. 21 (of 30): Speech Pathology
Mid-career median pay: $72,100
Projected employment increase: 18%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 37%
Common jobs: Speech-language pathologist, speech pathology supervisor, rehabilitation services manager

No. 22: Accounting
Mid-career median pay: $89,900
Projected employment increase: 14%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 28%
Common jobs: Certified public accountant, accounting manager, financial controller

No. 23: Social Work
Mid-career median pay: $56,200
Projected employment increase: 16%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 41%
Common jobs: Social worker, mental health case manager, social services director

No. 24: Psychology
Mid-career median pay: $64,500
Projected employment increase: 12%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 40%
Common jobs: Behavior analyst, clinical psychologist, school psychologist

No. 25: Library and Information Science
Mid-career median pay: $57,200
Projected employment increase: 16%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 41%
Common jobs: Reference librarian, library director, law librarian

No. 26: Fine Arts
Mid-career median pay: $63,900
Projected employment increase: 12%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 39%
Common jobs: Art director, senior graphic designer, high school teacher

No. 27: Counseling
Mid-career median pay: $53,500
Projected employment increase: 17%
Job growth including replacement needs: 40%
Common jobs: Clinical therapist, high school guidance counselor, mental health counselor

No. 28: Education
Mid-career median pay: $59,600
Projected employment increase: 14%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 39%
Common jobs: Assistant principal, education administrator, teacher

No. 29: English
Mid-career median pay: $61,700
Projected employment increase: 9%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 32%
Common jobs: Editor, high school teacher, writer

No. 30: Divinity
Mid-career median pay: $54,200
Projected employment increase: 13%
Job growth, including replacement needs: 32%
Common jobs: Chaplain, minister, senior pastor

The long tradition of xenophobia at DebrisInflow continues unabated.  Migara joins the long list of foreigners bashed, abused and ultimately banned by the perverts at DI.  

If he said he had a cavernous ass, licked toes or really really enjoyed the company of young boys he would go to the top of the class, but since he just expresses his opinions in less than the King’s English he gets banned.

Migara Wrote:Chip, I think you must be stupid or something!!!! I did not raise this thread, merely responding.
I did post a previous thread asking a legitimate question re Accreditation as I am planning to enroll with DETC school.
In my previous thread you (Chip), accused me of being a Troll…. Asking a valid question that was of importance to me. Isn’t this forum about asking questions? No matter how silly or stupid one may think? It may sound a stupid question to others, but no question is Stupid.
You responded to my previous thread of asking a question to starting an agenda. When said stated that DETC school should be able to carry more research and RA schools as most cases DETC schools offers 4-6 programs as opposed to RA schools. Here you accused me of having an Agenda.

For an Administrator you have a poor judgement and in-fact you being a prick now.

Chip Wrote:…You're lucky I'm in a good mood today, as personal attacks are prohibited by our TOS. Since the attack is on me, I'll let it slide this time, but if your attitude doesn't change, I won't let it slide next time.

Asus1000 Wrote:Today I got banned from Degreeinfo. Chip the Administrator sends me a PM against voicing my opinion, Not only he banned me for life, he also blocked my IP address. This because i responded to a thread by him.
My member name at Degreeinfo was Migara and i have being member since 2004. posted 253 posts.

Asus1000 Wrote:No I just wanted let you know that Called him a "Prick"because he was picking on me and calling a Troll. when then he sends me PM and threatened to kick me off the forum.

Asus1000 Wrote:Speaking once mind is a reason to get banned? I think Chip is a Prick with Capital "P" as he could not handle for pointing his double stand.

Klempner Wrote:My main problem with snopes is that there are so many fascinating scams described and exposed there that I get caught up in reading about them.

dictionary.com Wrote:fas?ci?nat?ing?
--adjective
of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating

There are people rotting in jail this very moment because a fake Arab scientist wanted a fake degree to get a fake visa to do fake mischief, or so the fake experts alleged.

Now it turns out there is a real Arab mental case who put a real bomb in Times Square and who used real RA universities to get real visas to further his plan.  Why are there not people rotting for this?

Note that the "fourth-rate academic program" where bomber boy did his "correspondence studies" was the now defunct but MSCHE (regionally) accredited Southeastern University in Washington, DC, affiliated with, among others, ACBSP and AACRAO.  (See page 5 of their last catalog.)

Times Square Bomber Exploited ‘Openings’ in US Security

Quote:The history of accused Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad “reveals a familiar pattern of a terrorist easily taking advantage of weak spots in America’s immigration system,” the Center for Immigration Studies asserts.

“Shahzad was admitted long before 9/11, but the openings he exploited are still in place today,” according to the CIS.

Born in Pakistan in 1979, Shahzad was issued a student visa in Islamabad in December 1998, CIS’s Jessica Vaughan reports using information provided by a New York Times chronology.

But Shahzad “certainly failed to demonstrate that he had ‘sufficient academic preparation to pursue the intended course of study,’ as the regulations require, or at least they did in the 1990s when I was issuing (and refusing) student visas,” Vaughan writes.

Shahzad was applying as a transfer student, and his transcript from his correspondence studies with [MSCHE accredited] Southeastern University, “a now defunct fourth-rate academic program,” showed several Ds and an F, Vaughan notes in the CIS article headlined “Faisal Shahzad: So Easy, Anyone Can Do It.”

Shahzad also did not disclose how he planned to pay for his education, which is required. Yet he received the visa.

“What on earth was this consular officer thinking?” Vaughan asks. “Probably about how annoyed the embassy senior staff might be if Shahzad’s father, supposedly a prominent military officer, complained about a visa refusal.”

In 2000, Shahzad graduated from the [NEASC accredited] University of Bridgeport in Connecticut with a degree in computer science and engineering. He reportedly had received a grant of $6,700 from the school to help cover his tuition.

In 2001, he began working for a temporary staffing agency, even though he had only a student visa, which does not include permission to work.

Shahzad was issued an H-1B visa for skilled workers in April 2002, and began working for the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company in a low-level accounting job.

In 2004, he married Huma Anif Mian, a U.S. citizen. Her neighbors told reporters that Shahzad visited her in Colorado only once before she married him.

That same year, he came under scrutiny from the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), which investigates cases related to national security. But no information has been released explaining why the agency was interested in Shahzad, according to Vaughan.

Shahzad received permanent resident status — a green card — in January 2006 because he had wed an American citizen.

“Marriage to a U.S. citizen is one of the easiest and most popular ways for illegal aliens (and terrorists) to obtain a green card,” Vaughan writes.

Shahzad applied for U.S. citizenship in October 2008, and despite the JTTF probe, he was sworn in on April 1, 2009 — although he did not give up his Pakistani passport.

He left for Pakistan in June 2009, and has said he visited the tribal regions of the country where he received training at a terrorist camp.

Shahzad returned to the U.S. in February of this year, and on May 1, attempted to set off a car bomb in Times Square.

Vaughan concludes that unless policymakers move to close the openings that Shahzad exploited, “they offer a sobering guarantee of job security for counter-terrorism and security personnel for the foreseeable future.”

Couldn't help but notice the irony of these two stories.  In Venezuela the communist dimwit Hugo Shave Ass is nationalizing a private university.  Seems that someone was "offering degrees illegally" and "not meeting legal and ethical requirements."  

Sounds a lot like your basic cartel shill arguing against educational freedom.  Now we know where they got their playbook.

But in Europe (of all places) they are calling for "commercialisation" of higher education and "privatisation" of universities "in a similar way to their North American competitors."  Now that the socialists have run out of other people's money to waste, it suddenly dawns on them that only the free market system can solve their problems.  

If even the Euros can figure it out, is there a chance this "partnerships with the world of enterprise" thing might catch on among the statist dopes who dominate US higher education?

Quote:Hugo Chavez to nationalize Venezuelan private university
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
By Javier Mines

CARACAS, VENEZUELA (BNO NEWS) -- Leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Tuesday night on his Twitter account his plans to nationalize a private university.

"I inform, attention Barinas, students of the Univ. Santa Inés, I have just approved the nationalization plan, for the good of all. Now: FOR FREE," said the Twitter message.

The government had banned the operation of the Santa Ines University because it "did not meet the legal and ethical requirements to establish and sustain a private university," according to the Venezuelan government.

"It offered degree programs illegally," said Education Minister, Edgardo Ramirez, according to the El Universal newspaper.

Since 2007, President Chavez is conducting an intensive campaign of nationalizations of strategic sectors as electricity, cement, steel, food, oil and banking.

Quote:EUROPE: Neo-liberals push university privatisation
Joe Walters
16 May 2010
Issue: 124

The third European University Business Forum took place in Brussels earlier this month with the aim of furthering transnational discussion on the commercialisation of higher education.

A neo-liberal movement has advocated privatisation of European universities, in a similar way to their North American competitors, since the World Trade Organization included education in its General Agreement on Trade in Services in 1995.

Their calls gained traction following the global economic crisis. National governments are forced to deal with increased demand for higher education. With less money available to them, many have sought diversification of university funding.

Moreover, high levels of unemployment have provided governments with further impetus to encourage more commercially orientated degree programmes and academic research.

Higher education in Europe is linked politically and economically through the Bologna process and the euro, and links between business and universities have increased rapidly across the continent.

The University Business Forum took place against this background. The forum, previously held in February 2008 and 2009, is organised by the European Commission. It believes that "universities should develop structured partnerships with the world of enterprise" so they are able to respond better and faster to market demands.

By inviting representatives of higher education, business and public authorities from throughout Europe to converge in Brussels, they are able to foster these partnerships and promote and improve the process of privatising higher education.

Participants had a number of developments to reflect on this year. Powerful advocates of neo-liberal higher education policy, such as the former UK Business Secretary, Peter (Lord) Mandelson, have become increasingly prominent and privatisation within the sector has stretched as far as the traditionally socially inclusive Scandinavia.

Furthermore, major problems in Southern and Eastern Europe - such as university funding cuts of 48% in Latvia, a 53% rise in graduate unemployment in Hungary and total financial meltdown in Greece - mean many countries are becoming susceptible to radical higher education reform.

Reforms to 'university governance', 'putting knowledge to work', and increasing 'mobility between business and academia' were among the subjects addressed at this year's forum.

Around 400 representatives of higher education and business shared their 'ideas for concrete action...on European, national, regional and local level', through speeches, workshops and roundtable discussions. Proposals for 'new curricula for employability', with more internships and entrepreneurial opportunities, focused on students.

Meanwhile, the case for commercialising academic research was put forward by keynote speaker Jose Sierra, Director General at the Spanish Ministry of Education. Sierra claimed that "research by itself does not create, it is innovation that creates money and development".

...Nevertheless, the overriding and powerful majority at the forum continue to regard higher education commercialisation as paramount.

Quote:Ex-Crown College executives charged with student aid fraud
Vice president, registrar bilked federal aid system out of thousands
By LEVI PULKKINEN
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Four former employees of the now-defunct Crown College have been indicted by a federal grand jury on accusations that they bilked the federal government out of thousands of dollars.

Among those indicted Wednesday were Crown College's former vice president, Sheila Mullineaux; the college's admissions director and registrar, Jesica McMullin; and financial aid director Misty Lee. Also indicted is Jennifer Byers, the fiscal manager and bookkeeper.

In the indictment filed in U.S. District Court, the women are accused of obtaining subsidized loans to pay for Crown College tuition that was already waived for employees. Essentially, the grand jury contended, the women falsely applied for and received federal student loans and Pell Grants through mail fraud.

Through that fraud, the women are alleged to have wrongly received at least $65,750 in grants and loans.

First [ACCSCT] accredited in 1979, the private Tacoma college lost its accreditation in July 2007 and closed weeks later. The college offered associate's degrees in criminal justice and paralegal studies, as well as a bachelor's level business administration program.

By the time it shut down, according to the indictment, Crown College classes "were operated almost completely online."

"Crown's students participated in their online classes by logging on to 'classrooms' they had previously registered for through the school's website," according to the indictment. "While there were physical classrooms located within the buildings Crown operated, the vast majority of the teaching occurred on-line."

The indictment alleges the four women began scamming the federal government months before the college was closed, in December 2006.

The defendants are alleged in the indictment to have applied for federally insured financial aid and Pell grants, intending to use the funds for personal expenses after the college closed. Because the college was closing, the indictment continues, the women believed they wouldn't have to repay the federal loans.

Federal investigators contend the defendants drew at least three other people into the scheme, directing them to apply for federal student aid while knowing they weren't enrolled in the college.

In addition to a total of seven counts of mail fraud filed against the former employees, the Tacoma grand jury charged each of the women with one count of financial aid fraud.

None of the women has been jailed in the case. Each is expected in court for a preliminary hearing on May 28.

Thumbs up to Don Tapia, both for going back to school at age "in his 60s" to earn his BA and MBA, and for being so generous with his hard-earned money.  

Something for higher ed cartel fund raisers to ponder: Online students--who might otherwise not have had access to higher education--are perhaps even more appreciative of the opportunity provided by their beloved alma mater than are traditional cheeks-in-seats students.  Provide a valuable service and students may be more inclined to express their gratitude with profuse donations.

Quote:Online grad makes $4M donation to Saint Leo University
Reported by: Meredyth Censullo
Email: mcensullo@wfts.com
Last Update: 4/30 9:18 am  

SAINT LEO, FL -- Don Tapia has a rags-to-riches life story. He grew up in a rough neighborhood in Detroit and eventually joined the Air Force, citing it was his only way out of the Michigan slums. While in the Air Force he studied flight control, which later led him to a job as an air traffic controller. Eventually Tapia’s entrepreneurial spirit would lead him to start his own business, Essco Wholesale Electric Inc., outside Phoenix. He began by selling supplies to contractors, and eventually built a multi-million dollar wholesale company - the largest Hispanic owned company in the state of Arizona, according to the Hispanic Business 500 list for 2008.

Although Tapia was a successful businessman, he had only a high school degree. But he always preached the value of an education to his grandchildren.

Tapia - then in his 60s - decided to return to college, and opted to enroll in the Center for Online Learning at Saint Leo University. For 38 months, Tapia arrived to work early and left at 3 p.m. to take courses online. It took him three-and-a-half years to earn a bachelor’s degree.  During that time neither his family nor friends knew that he was taking classes online.  In fact, just prior to boarding a plane for commencement at Saint Leo in 2005, Tapia mailed his family letters announcing his achievement. He went on to earn his Master of Business Administration degree in 2007 through the graduate online offering at Saint Leo’s School of Business.

Now, as a thank you to Saint Leo, Tapia has donated $4 million to the university.  His gift - the largest single gift in the school’s history––will be used to help construct a state-of-the-art facility that will house the university’s School of Business.  The building will be named in appreciation of Tapia.

The facility will add 50,000 square feet to the university’s main campus, housing nine additional classrooms, a large lecture hall/board room, computer labs, and a broadcast technology suite.  The building is set to open in time to welcome students for the fall 2011 semester.

The University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) started the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations a couple years ago- the objective of which seems to be the exclusion and slandering of students, alumni, and community members who do not agree with their narrow-minded perspective.

You can find out more about this at: http://studentsforchief.com/

Northeastern Illinois still grants lifetime tenure to 'exceptional' professor

A Northeastern Illinois University professor with two master' degrees ?but without an accredited doctorate?was granted tenure under a university policy that allows "exceptional" teachers to be hired without a doctorate.

Sounds like a non-story, right? Except the professor, Theophilus "T.Y." Okosun, is a black man from Nigeria who attended a Catholic school.


He's black, he's a Christian, he's a superior instructor, so he's on George Gollin's hate list

Now stalker and self-appointed "expert"? George Gollin is taking time away from defending himself in his pending $120 million shakedown lawsuit to attack Okosun.

Quote:"That could mislead people," said George Gollin, a University of Illinois physics professor who has investigated diploma mills.

"?They probably turned down some people who would have done fine in the job, who had solid academic credentials, because they didn't understand what his degree was," Gollin said.

Quote:"Those of us who come in as immigrants, we didn't understand the difference between 'state-approved' and 'accredited.'"

He said university officials knew it wasn't [from a regionally accredited school] because he told them. "I said, 'Look, this is an unaccredited institution,' " Okosun said. "That was clear.''

Quote:But the school allowed Okosun to pursue the lifetime employment contract "without a Ph.D." based on his teaching skills. Okosun eventually demonstrated to faculty and administrators that his teaching is so "exceptional" that he is worthy of tenure, [Northeastern Illinois Provost Larry] Frank said.

"You already have to present yourself as a superior teacher or scholar to be tenured," said Frank, who as provost is the school's chief academic officer. "So 'exceptionality' means better than superior.''