Career Consultants International and St. Regis

Discussion in 'Accreditation Discussions (RA, DETC, state approva' started by BillDayson, Jul 3, 2003.

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  1. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    Here's something kind of interesting:

    http://www.thecareerpeople.com/consult.htm

    Some highlights worthy of note:

    OK, let me see if I understand this.

    These "legitimate recognized independent evaluators" will evaluate a St. Regis degree "as equivalent to a US Regionally Accredited degree", but in doing so they make no judgements about the quality of programs or schools?

    Isn't that a contradiction? If the evaluators aren't talking about equivalence in quality of schools and programs, then what precisely are they telling us then they announce that degrees are "equivalent to a US Regionally Accredited degree"? Equivalent in what sense? Equivalent in terms of what?

    My conclusion from this is that the St. Regis problem doesn't only extend to clueless admissions people, it also includes what sound to me like some very questionable credential evaluators.

    Which makes me wonder how credential evaluators are accredited, how the honest ones are distinguished from the corrupt ones, and how much weight universities put on their recommendations.

    Credential evaluation could very easily become the next new frontier of "degree-mill-science". (Perhaps it already has.) We have had phony universities, then spurious accreditation, so why not some corrupt evaluators? Unlike universities and accreditors, evaluators are faceless and work in the shadows. You can Google schools and accreditors, but evaluators remain mysterious and hidden. It's still not clear whether membership in some trade organization is any protection against questionable practices.

    Credential evaluators are something that Degreeinfo will be increasingly conscious of in the months to come, I'm sure. It's probably due to become the cutting edge.
     
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  2. BobC

    BobC New Member

    Bill,

    http://saintregis.edu.lr/attestation.htm

    There's an evaluator from their website. He's not a NACES member but looks fairly legit in terms of credentials, why don't you email him and find out his side of the story.
     
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  3. roysavia

    roysavia New Member

    The director of career consultants international is in for a rude awakening. Don't these people do any research before sponsoring their clients?
    I believe this is just another strategy that SRU is using to lure prospective customers (not students) into believing that they are a legitimate university.
    If President Bush decides to intervene in the Liberian conflict, he should parachute the CCI staff into Liberia.

    :mad:
     
  4. tcnixon

    tcnixon Active Member


    Any organization that places St. Regis as the #1 distance learning school in the world is dishonest, at best. My guess, and I don't think it's a particularly intuitive guess, is that they obviously have a financial arrangement with St. Regis. Conversely, they could be St. Regis.

    I found it interesting that their Top 20 list only had 17 schools listed. Apparently, there are still three more spots schools can buy.


    Tom Nixon
     
  5. tcnixon

    tcnixon Active Member

    P.S. I wonder how the legitimate schools on that Top 20 list of seventeen schools (sic) would appreciate being grouped with St. Regis?

    Now if someone had extra time, it would be an interesting test to see what the other schools would do and say. Particularly since they were ranked lower than a diploma mill.



    Tom Nixon
     
  6. BobC

    BobC New Member

    Re: Re: Career Consultants International and St. Regis

    Tom, what publication are you referring to? That would be totally crazy indeed.
     
  7. BobC

    BobC New Member

    Re: Re: Re: Career Consultants International and St. Regis

    Nevermind, I see the link on the bottom. I like the nice touch of mispelling "Univerisity" too.:)
     

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