George Gollin warned by St. Regis

I am fairly certain that SRU might come after me next. Since the letter posted by the embassy of liberia, I have had two students and one interested student wanting to know if my company would evaluate SRU transcripts in a favorable manner. I told two of them that SRU was not recognized by the Liberian Government, and one of them said that the letter is old news.

 

Those of you familiar with George Gollin's research into degree mills and his subsequent PowerPoint presentation, "Unconventional University Diplomas from Online Vendors" http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/diploma_mills.pdf will no doubt be interested to note that he is now being threatened with legal action, according to an article in today's Chronicle of Higher Education, from a number of those mills he so diligently researched: http://chronicle.com/free/2003/10/2003101301t.htm

Gollin is a tenured professor at the University of Illinois and had his research findings posted somewhere on the UoL Website. Apparently the university is facing threats of legal action from a number of the unconventional universities, and have since asked Gollin to remove his site from the university server. According to the Chronicle, "Among the institutions that complained to the university over material on Mr. Gollin's Web site were James Monroe, Robertstown, and St. Regis Universities, all of which operate from Liberia, and American Coastline University, based in Metairie, La. American Coastline also threatened to sue Mr. Gollin. The institutions accused him of making inaccurate statements about them that were harmful to their businesses."

I was able to access the presentation today, so I guess it has not yet been taken down. It is a very well researched and presented case, so I recommend people who have not yet seen it to take a look - it will raise a few smiles, even a couple of chuckles, and more than a few groans.

 

Thanks for that, Clarky.

The Web page that was removed used to be at http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/nonCHEA/. It was a compendium of info on a large number of mills.

The removal was discussed in the "Pigeions and SRU" thread.

 

"The Oregon agency and the North Dakota Department of Career and Technical Education are planning to use the material from Mr. Gollin on their own Web sites. [...] Alan Contreras, administrator for the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization, called the professor's work 'superb.'"

That's good news.