California University Foreign Credential Evaluations

CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY
FOREIGN CREDENTIAL EVALUATIONS AND RESEARCH
AMORSOLO FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED

http://www.cufce.org/faq.html

FAQ:

Are you a NACES member?

We are a public foundation. NACES is for private foundations and independent individuals. We are an accredited member of Association of American Universities Foreign Credential Evaluation, Inc.

Icant locate this entity - Association of American Universities Foreign Credential Evaluation, Inc.

There is Association of American Universities but this service is not listed with them.

any input?

Thanks

 

Interesting email addresses

Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

 

Not only do they perform their own credential evaluations, they also award their own life-experience degrees.

http://www.cufce.org/services.html

Services Offered:
• _______To evaluate foreign academic credentials and professional experience.
• _______To do 24 hour diploma evaluation.
• _______To issue U.S. equivalency diplomas.
• _______To award U.S. equivalency academic credits for work experience. _Three years of full time work experience is
the equivalent of one year full time university credit units.
• _______To award the U.S. equivalency Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science _degrees to vocational or Associate in
Arts graduates with broad professional experience.

The California BPPVE search page has no record of them. (And California doesn't approve life-experience degree programs anyway, absent a religious exemption.) It's illegal for a private post-secondary educational institution not accredited by WASC to grant degrees in California unless it's CA-approved.

It looks to me like these people are trying to be cute. They are ambiguous about whether they are really granting degrees, or just diplomas that say that somebody has the equivalent of a degree. And they don't offer post-secondary instruction, just evaluations. My guess is that they would argue that these things make them something other than a post-secondary educational institution and hence immune from the BPPVE's jurisdiction.

 

And what is this

Association of American Universities Foreign Credential Evaluation, Inc.

 

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a legitimate organization comprised of sixty or so of the most research-intensive universities in North America. Here's a link to their website:

www.aau.edu

The "Association of American Universities Foreign Credential Evaluation, Inc." seems to be a soundalike entity.

AAU has contacted CUCFE/Amorsolo to ask them to remove any and all references to "AAU Accreditation" from their website.

The same is true of the claim that CUCFE is a member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. NAFSA, founded in 1948 as the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers, is comprised of individual and not organizational members. NAFSA is looking into CUCFE's claims about their "membership" in that organization.

CUCFE/Amorsolo Foundation is directed by someone named Bettie Potts, Ph.D. They seem to be in the business of preparing "foreign credential evaluations" to meet certain U.S. visa requirements for immigrant Filipinos in the Los Angeles area.

 

Dear Lerner:

We are a member of the Association of American Universities Foreign Credentials Evaluation, Incorporated.( Their own made entity to accredit them seves - Lerner) Not the Association of American Universities. We are Tax-Exempt, Nonprofit, Public Foundation. Please check on our web site:www.cufce.org. Our Legal Authority to Operate are all stated on the front page of the web site. Our business name was registered on April 14, 2004 only. We operate under Section 501(c) of the IRS Tax code. We starte doing credential evaluation in May 2004 only. Since then, we have provided credential evaluation for so many universities, board examinations and the U.S. Immigration Services.
Dr. Betty Jean Potts, Ph.D. is our Executive Director. She is the co-owner of the Beverly Hills Resources Corporation on Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, California, co-owner of the Beverly Hills RC School, and a Board Member of the Amorsolo Foundation, Incorporated. Ms. Terry Alfelor, Master of Arts in Education graduate with 30 years experience as registrar is our Chief Evaluator. I am a senior evaluator with a Master of Arts degree in Education also and at the same time taking care of the Other Services stated in our web site.
Thank you. MR LEWIS, Senior Evaluator.

Request for school names of their degrees - never ben answered.
Request to provide web site or address of their AAUCEI agency also unanswered.

It apears to be all bogus in my opinion.

it is posible that someone ower there practices law - I think