brazen, or are they idiots?

Sometimes the operators of degree-granting something-or-others don't even try to hide what they do. A few examples:

1. Dumb meta tags

Adams College at www.Adamscollege-edu.us (IP 128.121.4.49)
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="...fake diploma, fake degree,...">

www.Custom-degrees.com (IP 128.121.4.49)
<meta name="keywords" content="...fake degree, fake diploma, fake degrees, fake diplomas, online degrees,...">

www.Graduateservice.com (IP 128.121.4.49):
<meta name="keywords" content="...fake degree, fake diploma, fake degrees, fake diplomas,... fake college degree, fake college degrees...">

2. Dumb disclaimers

Lexington University at http://www.lexingtonuniversity.com/?page=newform
"I further understand that The University offers no classes, no curriculum, no lectures, no staff or faculty, no literature, learning materials, testing, or thesis or dissertation review."

Stanton University at http://stantonuniversity-edu.org/order.php
"I further understand that The University offers no classes, no curriculum, no lectures, no staff or faculty, no literature, learning materials, testing, or thesis or dissertation review."

Ellington University at http://www.ellingtonuniversity-edu.org/order/form.php
"I further understand that The University offers no classes, no curriculum, no lectures, no staff or faculty, no literature, learning materials, testing, or thesis or dissertation review."

Global Christian Academy at http://globalchurchministries.com/order/orderhs.php
"I further understand that The University offers no classes, no curriculum, no lectures, no staff or faculty, no literature, learning materials, testing, or thesis or dissertation review."

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The meta tags are smart, not dumb. I'm sure they attract customers through the search engines.

 

Is there really that big a difference between "idiotically brazen" and "brazenly idiotic?"

Personally I believe all of this is just a tacit admission of what we’ve known all along: Degree mill customers are much more akin to co-conspirators than they are to victims.

 

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Yep, but it also puts more of a hair-trigger on the time bomb. (Though that risk is borne by the customer alone!)

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WAUC uses the disclaimer: -

"The World Association of Universities and Colleges is a private accrediting body not listed with any government agency or the U.S. Department of Education, and is not designed to meet the needs of students intending to use Federal Funds. It is the responsibility of each student to determine, prior to registration at [xxxx] University, that their degree program or studies, meet admission, employment, or transfer requirements. The University makes no representations, promises or guarantees of employment or acceptability of transfer credits to any public or private educational institution."

Some colleges in the UK may be caught out because they enroll students without giving them the opportunity to read the disclaimer. Additionally it may be an 'unfair term' if used in Europe and therefore not enforceable.

[" a term is unfair 'if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations arising under the contact, to the detriment of the consumer' - regulation 5(1)"]

(this only applies to consumer contracts and only to standard terms, not negotiated ones).

 

SRU & Co-Conspiracy - news from the front....

Nothing could be more true. In the case of SRU, my friend who has access to their bulletin board tells me that the "faculty" (i.e., the "brothers" and "sisters", as they refer to each other as) are being added to every day with another sad sack who either lost his/her job or has had trouble defending the SRU degree. When that happens, the next step is INSTANT professorship and membership in the SRU faculty rosters. They go on living the dream, or is it more of a "nightmare"?

Co-conspirators indeed, or just delusional idiots who have convinced themselves, against all odds, that SRU and its shadowy administrators are telling the truth, that there really will be a big "lawsuit" against everyone and anyone who dares to suggest they are a degree mill, and that SRU and Liberia are just fine places for advanced educational degrees that can stand up to RA. How they have come to this conclusion without being co-conspirators can only be explained alternatively by their being idiots. In either case, the conclusion that the rest of the world draws about SRU and its graduates is hardly flattering.