PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming 313
CousinLarry writes "Online 'university' Trinity Southern University (Google cache of disabled site homepage) has been sued by the state of Pennsylvania." Besides spamming, this self-described school has, as another reader points out, "awarded an MBA to a cat owned by an undercover Pennsylvania deputy attorney general." I bet my cat could get a PhD.
Better mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Has Timothy(or the submitter) never heard of The Internet Archive [archive.org]?
You can actually look at the pictures, too.
Re:Real Victim (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Why is anyone surprised??? (Score:5, Informative)
Thereby reducing the average IQ of cats, while greatly increasing that of MBAs.
The poster is alluding to a quote by Mark Twain:
More Twain quotes on cats here [twainquotes.com].
Re:What happens when you don't force accreditation (Score:2, Informative)
Does what you're proposing sound *efficient* to you? Who do you think would pay for that certification? The student who becomes a worker. Why? because either the school pays for it directly (which filters down, with a surcharge, to the student), the student pays for it directly, or the employer pays for it directly (which filters down, in the form of it costing more to hire the student, thus the student is worth less pay).
OR...and this is just an idea...the inefficient "free market" BS can be muzzled a little by having places that call themselves "universities" slammed and their owners put in prison.
Want to see the economy do well? Improve *efficiency*. There's a reason the worker production figures are so important, you know.
Heh. (Score:2, Informative)
N.B. There's also a CNN article [cnn.com] about this as well, which seems to be a carbon copy of the local story linked in the blurb.
Re:What happens when you don't force accreditation (Score:4, Informative)
Well, the most recent PISA study [oecd.org] pretty much debunks your argument.
While the godless, pinko, commie, socialist, anti-american, linux-using Finns with their wicked socialist public school system came ahead just of about everybody, students from the free enterprise, privatized great nation of the US of A didn't look too well.
Get a clue!
Re:Real Victim (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Real Victim (Score:3, Informative)
MIT is very much accredited [mit.edu]. "Everybody knows they're just fine" is not nearly enough to continue in business, not least because neither the federal government nor any state will extend grants or loans to students attending institutions that are not accredited by a recognized governing body. No accreditation = no $$$$, period. Recognized accreditation commissions are organized regionally in the United States - the US Department of Education would probably be the best place to start for a comprehensive list.
The reason the organization that accredits UC Berkeley has any clout is that it accredits Berkeley.
Nope. The reason the organization that accredits UC Berkeley has clout is for the same reason the organization that accredits MIT has clout - without it, the money dries up and the joint either shuts down or converts over to a for-profit trade school.
Re:Real Victim (Score:2, Informative)
Also, accrediting bodies are okayed by the US Secretary of Education. For more on that, see http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html [ed.gov]
Re:Depends on what you expect from one (Score:1, Informative)
My cat and my dog both obey my commands.
My cat (a DSH) knows her name (she's about 6 months old), and will come consistently when called. (My old cat, who died a year ago was the same way.)
My dog (Border Collie) knows his name, and will come consistently when called (and has done since he was about 3 months old.)
Cats are not pack animals, so they really have neither a "master", nor "servants" or "staff"
That is incorrect. Cats *can* be pack animals, or *can* be solitary, and they have a very complex social hierarchy when they are part of a group.
Either way, you can know that it's the cat's genuine assessment of you, and not some hard-wired reflex kicking in.
Bullshit. It's as much a cat's "genuine assessment" as a dog's "genuine assessment" would be.
Cats *are* social animals, just as much as dogs are.