"Law on inspections leads to overseas visits" article

galanga · May 9, 2005

Law on inspections leads to overseas visits, Mead Gruver (Associated Press), Cheyenne, Wyoming. Billings [Wyoming] Gazette, May 9, 2005.

Wyoming Department of Education officials say that state law requires them to inspect any campus of any Wyoming-licensed private university, anywhere in the world, with the school covering all expenses.

So, last fall, two department officials visited campuses of Cheyenne-based Preston University in the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Britain. Two state senators also went, and Preston also paid their way.

Seven months later, the four have little to show from the 10-day trip.

For example, each of three inspection reports by Deputy Superintendent Quinn Carroll and the department's finance director, Fred Hansen, was about 1-1/2-pages - about as long as the application form for opening a private fish farm in Wyoming.

The reports conclude that the Preston campuses in Ajman, Islamabad and London were mostly in compliance with Wyoming law.

And, while neither Sen. Jim Anderson, R-Glenrock, nor Sen. Kathryn Sessions, D-Cheyenne, has formally reported on their perspective of the trip, Sessions came back and, with the backing of Preston Chancellor Jerry Haenisch, submitted a bill that could have helped the school.

The bill sought to remove several specific laws for private-school licensing from statute in favor of new rules overseen by the state Board of Education.

"I can't see how anyone has any problem with a decently priced education with nontraditional students," she said...

But the Pakistani government has reached a less-complimentary conclusion.

In February, based on its own inspections and rules, Pakistan's Higher Education Commission classified all 15 Preston campuses in that country as "seriously deficient" or "illegally operating." The Islamabad campus was deemed "seriously deficient."...
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Jack Tracey · May 10, 2005

Well, Kathryn Sessions seems to have earned both a Bachelors and a Masters from Utah State. You'd think she'd know a decent school from a hole in the ground, no? Aside from all that I'm glad to see Mead Gruver is still on the job. However, I'm quietly wondering just how much Mead knows about fish farming in Wyoming.
Jack

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