Bear Outs Foerster & Orner's Unaccredited New World Uni

[Harrison J Bounel]

Following the footsteps of their mentor, the notorious John Klempner Bear, Stalker Steve and Toelicker Talk Moderator Randy Randell have teamed up to create their own unaccredited offshore "entity."

Where's all the "TICK, TICK, TICK" talk? Isn't the mere fact that it's unaccredited enough for the klones to begin swarming? Plus it's in a tiny third world country populated largely by black people. Doesn't that automatically give it "trailer park hound" and "sons of bitches" status in some quarters? Double standard much?

John Bear
Senior Member

New World University: is there a connection with this forum?

A correspondent has asked me about New World University (Affordable Higher Education for Students Worldwide | New World University), with an office in the West Indies and a website registered in the Acension Islands. The correspondent says that its President is a long-time (more than ten years) and frequent poster on DegreeInfo.com. (I find no names on the school's website.) This is all new information to me, and I wonder what's up.

SteveFoerster
Resident Gadfly

Hi John,

Yes, your correspondent is referring to me. Actually, more than one person active on this forum is helping to build New World University. Randell Orner is the school's Provost, and has done a heroic job assembling a team of faculty members and instructional designers to put together curricula.

I hope no one minds that we haven't discussed it, but there were a few reasons not to bring it up ourselves. One is that it would be shilling, particularly when a moderator is a leader in the project. Another is that we're doing a deliberately slow rollout, we have only a few students at present and our application with Dominica's National Accreditation Board is still in process. A third reason, frankly, is that we're not inclined to spend time responding to naysayers, and this community has a number of members who have expressed what I believe is excessive skepticism of schools based in smaller developing countries.

That said, it's a pretty poorly kept secret. My sig links to my personal site, where I've blogged about it, and my LinkedIn and Facebook profiles refer to it, and so forth. There are a number of other forum participants who are aware of what we're doing, and we're happy to speak with people interested in productive conversations, especially people in developing countries.

Anyway, for those who are curious, New World University is based in Dominica and reaches students in developing Commonwealth countries through distance learning and partner organizations. Our partner organization model is not dissimilar to that used by the University of London International Programme. We're starting with one, two, and three year undergraduate programs in International Business Leadership, and will expand to other disciplines and levels going forward.

One note: there's no connection with Ascension Island. We use a .ac domain because it's the closest thing there is to a global top level domain for higher education , particularly one recognizable in Commonwealth countries. But that doesn't imply a connection there any more than CBSNews.tv implies that network is based on Tuvalu.

So that's the quick answer. I expect once we reach another significant milestone we may announce it, especially once we're through the accreditation gauntlet.

http://www.degreeinfo.com/general-distan...forum.html

[D00bie]

Reeks of MIGS. A bad history lesson all over again for the turnover of active users at DI that don't know that bit of history If they do it, then its ok and they should be given the "benefit of the doubt".

Asshole hypocrites, especially that stupid bitch Kizmet.

[Fort Bragger]

How do you spell hypocrisy? I highly recommend anyone who got shat on by Steve to squat and let go. One plus - doesn't Steve live or has,'t he lived in Dominica?

[jamesc1]

As I'm sure Bear would say if it was some other person,"If it's good why not become accredited here."

Bear always operated under the system of, mine is fine yours is bad, no matter that the schools were being operated using the same techniques.

Unaccredited schools once offered hope and usage. Now the way people seek to out and trash even accredited schools get bombed. UOP which ain't so great gets treated about the same as good old MIGS.

Bear is a used car salesman in a suit and tie. From LIAR to Greenwich he did what he wanted and called them all good or just good fun.

Bear schools used Life Experience as the backbone of their degree granting system, and, everyone knows it. He got students in and out in months not years, so much for his quality.

Bear is full of it!!!!!!

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Every time I think I've posted my last on Bear he crawls out from under his rock, puts on his halo and starts crowing again. The guy was and is a fraud. A man who has said and done whatever will bring in bucks without having to actually work. Every school he involved himself with he jumped in and left quickly, leaving his partners holding the bag, an empty one. No one who knows his true history respects what he calls his expert opinions. He told people unaccredited schools were good, useful, and of value. He then turned on these same schools and former clients, and readers of his guides. He laughed at people who did what he recommended. Our great trail blazer got lost, got paid, and laughed all the way to the bank.

[bigfoot]

As I'm sure Bear would say if it was some other person,"If it's good why not become accredited here."

Bear always operated under the system of, mine is fine yours is bad, no matter that the schools were being operated using the same techniques.

Unaccredited schools once offered hope and usage. Now the way people seek to out and trash even accredited schools get bombed. UOP which ain't so great gets treated about the same as good old MIGS.

Bear is a used car salesman in a suit and tie. From LIAR to Greenwich he did what he wanted and called them all good or just good fun.

Bear schools used Life Experience as the backbone of their degree granting system, and, everyone knows it. He got students in and out in months not years, so much for his quality.

Bear is full of it!!!!!!

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Every time I think I've posted my last on Bear he crawls out from under his rock, puts on his halo and starts crowing again. The guy was and is a fraud. A man who has said and done whatever will bring in bucks without having to actually work. Every school he involved himself with he jumped in and left quickly, leaving his partners holding the bag, an empty one. No one who knows his true history respects what he calls his expert opinions. He told people unaccredited schools were good, useful, and of value. He then turned on these same schools and former clients, and readers of his guides. He laughed at people who did what he recommended. Our great trail blazer got lost, got paid, and laughed all the way to the bank.

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What happened to Bear's newest distance learning roll of toilet paper, that he was crowing about?...seems society has realized how stale and worthless his last retread's were and decided to shop for on-line education without his $hitty books to guide them...Wonder if Bear has been crank calling men's wives lately, to listen to the anxiety they manifest, when he doesn't respond on the other end of the receiver?...Even Contrerass has been relatively quiet...he's just lyin' in the weeds, waitin' to resurface and spout more unconstitutional drivel, for all to sicken at...