US Army warns against Diploma Mills

Trinity College & University actively seeking Iraqi troops

Cheers,

George

 

can we learn from this?

So here we have an organization that understands it must look after its young people who go into harms way to protect the rest of us.

There is no pussyfooting around, none of that "oh, that there organization says it is changing its ways and it must be so, besides it says it is ready to send a zillion dollars in charity into the wreckage left by a civil war."

Bogus "schools" are bad, and they place their customers at risk. Period. End of story. The Army gets it, and knows to warn our soldiers.

G

 

When I was stationed at Ft. Gordon, GA, there were a number of temporary storefront "schools" that ripped off soldiers.

One such "school" was a detective school. There were others but this is the one I remember the most because they were in and out of town in about 30 days.

 

Sounds like some failed mill seminaries and similar enterprises.

 

If somebody wanted to sell phony educations to Iraqi jihadists, I might applaud the innovative use of degree mills as a weapon in the war on terror.

 

George's tagline is very misleading.

TC&U isn't going after Iraqi soldiers, they're going after American soldiers serving in Iraq.

That makes it all the worse. I can speak from experience that I couldn't care less about schools offering me degrees, I just wanted to make it home.

 

Gee, what can I say - sorry?

Cheers,

George

 

There are always the REMFs.

 

Neil Hayes has a Ph.D. from TC&U, doesn't he?

 

I was a REMF in one (and not in another) and I just wanted to go home too... And sometimes it's safer to not be a REMF (re: Khobar Towers, 14th QMD, and more than a few casualties of this present war).

IMHO -- we move too fast these days to reasonably call anyone a REMF -- what's rear area this afternoon is hostile fire zone tonight.

On topic though -- I doubt too many soldiers in Iraq are worrying about Trinity tonight....

Just a thought....

 

Thanks for this post.....a key quote is:

"“With a degree from a diploma mill, you’re not going to get financial aid,” said the DoD official."

When I was selecting Graduate programs about two years ago, the Veteran's Administration was a big help in sorting out real programs from bogus programs. Many of the schools that are routinely mentioned in the discussion forums were not approved for my use of GI Bill Educational benefits.....I opted for a real Division 1 school based on the advice of the VA......glad I did. I found that when I explored a website for a potential school if I could not find GI Bill acceptance, they came right off the list.

 

Rich: "Neil Hayes has a Ph.D. from TC&U, doesn't he?"


Neil Hynd: Century
FN Hayes: Trinity

He must be really proud of his alma mater, doing its bit to help the troops in Iraq.

 

Sorry George, I didn't mean that as anything against you personally.

 

Good point....there really is no such thing as a rear echelon in this war.

 

Doesn't "FN Hayes" go by "Neil"? If not, I've been carrying around that little nugget of silliness in my head for some time.

(Neil Hynd has been quite adament about Century. But he doesn't get nearly the negative attention others do who defend such schools. Must have something to do with (a) civility on his part and (b) his reasonable approach to those defenses.)