Hamilton University still open for business

galanga · Apr 7, 2005

School operates without license, Mead Gruver (Associated Press), Jackson Hole, Wyoming Star-Tribune, April 07, 2005:

CHEYENNE -- An online college has continued to operate eight months after it was supposed to either seek licensing or shut down -- renewing its corporate license, maintaining its Web site, responding to e-mail and using the same address in a former Evanston motel.

Hamilton University has not so much as inquired about getting an education license, according to Wyoming Department of Education officials.

Hamilton attorney Tim Kingston of Cheyenne told The Associated Press he didn't know about the Web site or that Hamilton, according to the secretary of state's office, renewed as a state-licensed corporation last month. He then called back and said the school would shut down the site and dissolve in Wyoming...

Jeffrey Brunton, a Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection attorney who settled a lawsuit with Marn and another school of his, American State University, said that by keeping its Web site active and renewing its corporate charter, Hamilton appeared to still be doing business in Wyoming...

Hawaii accused American State University, which was based in Honolulu, of not disclosing in promotional materials that it wasn't accredited by a federally recognized organization, a violation of that state's law. Under the settlement, Marn paid $36,000...

As of Wednesday, Hamilton's Web site still had pictures of the former motel it used as a campus, and still listed a mailing address in Evanston. An e-mail address and Wyoming phone number on the site were still active, with automated responses.

"When you ultimately pull back the curtains on the Wizard of Oz," Brunton said, "it's usually one guy with a Web site."
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