THE DIPLOMA MILL DEGREES ON WALLSTREET->FEE FOR CERTIFICATE By CHRISTOPHER BYRON

FEE FOR CERTIFICATE
By CHRISTOPHER BYRON
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June 7, 2004 -- A plague of fishy sheepskins is spreading through Corporate America.
That's the startling finding from a Post investigation that has uncovered more than 80 public companies in which members of the brass have dressed up their resumes with degrees from so-called diploma mill universities.

The term "diploma mill" has no specific meaning under law. But according to Webster's dictionary, it describes any institution that grants relatively worthless degrees and diplomas for a fee.

The embarrassing love affair with these academically suspect pieces of parchment also puts the spotlight on an American Stock Exchange-listed company called Cenuco Inc., which sells the degrees to the public through a subsidiary called "Barrington University."

The Post investigation, based on a computerized search of filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, uncovered 15 different chairmen and CEOs, 29 corporate board members and 40 other top officials of public companies who have burnished their resumes with diplomas and degrees from Barrington U. and 17 similar operations.

Though they bear tweedy names like Columbia State University and Kensington University, none are recognized as authentic institutions of higher learning by any legitimate U.S. accrediting body.

Yet business is booming anyway, because actually providing an education is not the point of these outfits. Their real purpose is merely to provide the sort of convincing-looking credentials that help someone pretend to be a graduate of a prestigious institution of higher learning.



Since no federal laws set standards for institutions purporting to grant college and graduate-level degrees, and since regulation at the state level is haphazard, it is easy enough for credential-hungry CEOs to lift themselves from obscurity by dressing up their resumes with a convincing-sounding advanced degree.

All 18 of the "universities" unearthed in the Post investigation are already banned from operating in Oregon and Michigan, which have some of the nation's strictest laws against the use of diploma-mill certificates and degrees. But regulation is almost non-existent in Louisiana, Alabama, Wyoming and several other states, which many diploma mills now call home. Thanks to the growth of the Internet, other mills have simply moved abroad, to places like Liberia, St. Kitts and the Seychelles.

THE Post investigation found diploma mill certificates on the re sumes of fake eggheads in top positions at a total of 84 separate companies. They ranged from computer software giant PeopleSoft Inc., which trades on the Nasdaq, to little-known Cenuco Inc., which bore the name Virtual Academies.com Inc. until 2003.

Cenuco, which last month moved up from the OTC Bulletin Board to a listing on the American Stock Exchange, is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., but its "Barrington University" subsidiary operates out of an office in Alabama.

The father/son team that founded Barrington, Robert and Steven Bettinger, have had run-ins with regulators for nearly a decade. Depending upon which SEC filing one relies on, Barrington itself was founded either in 1991 or 1993. In either case, the two Bettingers were fined by the State of Vermont in 1995 for deceptively advertising that Barrington was an "internationally accredited" institution whose degrees could boost a graduate's lifetime earnings by more than $1 million.

To deal with the accreditation problem, Bettinger Sr. got together with another man in the diploma game, Angel L. Fernandez, and in 1998 they set up an accrediting service, the International Association of Universities and Schools Inc. Both men then promoted it as an accrediting agency for their separate "universities."

For further credentialing, the two men turned next to an individual named Donald Grunewald of Wilton, Conn., who runs his own diploma mill called the "Adam Smith University of America." The mill uses a mailing address and telephone answering service in South Dakota and an Internet server in Liberia.

Grunewald agreed to become the Association's "chairman" and signed his name to an official-looking document by which the Association purported to grant "full accreditation" to Barrington U. Bettinger then posted the credential on the university's Web site while Fernandez placed similar claims of accreditation on the site of his own operation, the so-called American University of Asturias, Spain.

A year later, Spanish authorities shut down Fernandez's operation for issuing degrees illegally under Spanish law. So he packed up his bags and moved to New York, where he began operating all over again, this time under the name InterAmerican University.

By that time, Florida officials had shut down Bettinger and Fernandez's Boca Raton-based Association as well, for failure to pay annual taxes and other fees. Almost immediately thereafter, the Association reopened in Geneva and was back in business.

Last week Grunewald said he hadn't had any dealing with Bettinger or Fernandez in "many, many years." Efforts to locate Fernandez for a comment were unsuccessful, since telephone service to all his known addresses has been terminated.

For his part, Robert Bettinger has been busying himself by marketing Barrington to potential students in China and other Third World nations. His son Steven, 41, heads up Barrington's Amex-listed parent company, Cenuco — which he claims, oddly enough, to be steering into the homeland security business. He did not return a phone call to be interviewed for this story.

OTHER companies in the Post probe include Utah's Ecom Corp., whose chairman and CEO, Craig Cummings, is described in a 2002 SEC filing as possessing a Ph.D. in Electronics and Aeronautical Engineering from Columbia State University.

In fact, Louisiana-based Columbia State, which also turned up on the resumes of board members at three other companies, was actually a diploma mill run by a performing hypnotist named Ronald Pellar, who pleaded guilty in April in Los Angeles to nine counts of federal mail fraud in connection with the school.

The Post probe also found 15 companies with top corporate officials claiming degrees from an entity calling itself "Pacific Western University." One holder of a Pacific Western sheepskin (for a doctorate in "security management") is a retired New York City detective named Anthony Luizzo, who sits on the board of a company called Accufacts Pre-Employment Screening Inc., which conducts security screenings for job applicants. Luizzo says he worked hard for his degree, which took him roughly 18 months of home study to earn.

Yet when it comes to at least the appearance of hard work, he's got nothing on a Clifton, N.J. man named Gene Foley, the CEO of a start-up called Bodyguard Records.com Inc. A 2002 filing describes Foley as possessing a master's and a Ph.D. in political science from "Pacific Western University," and a juris doctor from "Kensington University," all three of which were earned within a year of each other in 1993 and 1994. The Post probe turned up six different companies with top officials boasting diplomas from Kensington U. on their resumes.

The Post investigation also turned up three companies with top officials claiming degrees from "Harrington University." Four SEC reports — filed during a four-month period in 2000 — describe the chairman and CEO of a Tacoma, Wash., software firm called InsynQ, Inc., John P. Gorst, as holding an undergraduate degree from Harrington while pursuing a MBA from the same institution.

Last week, Gorst said he actually had no degrees of any sort, from Harrington or anywhere else, and insisted that he had "no idea at all" how the name of Harrington U. got into InsynQ's SEC filings. "I guess we'll just have to correct it," he said.

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Columbia Pacific University

"The state had been trying for more than two years to close Columbia Pacific University in Novato, which has been issuing bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees through the mail since 1978."

"Among the satisfied graduates of Columbia Pacific is Mill Valley author John Gray, Ph. D., who is well-known for his best-selling self-help bible Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"


FROM SEC FILINGS:

.SUMMIT BANK CORP
Form: DEF 14A Filing Date: 3/27/2003

Carl Unger , Ph. D . , has been a director of the Company since its inception in July 1987 and served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors from April 2000 to April 2002 and as Chairman of the Company from April 1996 to April 1998. Dr. Unger has been self-employed since 1985 as a consultant specializing in the field of human resources with clients in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States. From 1978 to 1985, he was employed by the Campbell Soup Company. Dr. Unger was educated at Cheshunt College Cambridge, Liverpool University and Columbia Pacific University. He is a member of the Royal Society of Health, the Institute of Marketing, the British Marketing Association, the American Marketing Association, and is an Incorporated Business Counsellor (UK).

PHARMCHEM INC
Form: 10-K Filing Date: 3/27/2003

Mr. Halligan has been PharmChem’s President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since November 1995. From 1988 to 1995, he was President and CEO of E.S.I. Consulting Group, a private consulting practice, specializing in advising and operating high growth, consumer and service-oriented companies. Before forming his consulting practice, Mr. Halligan served from 1983 to 1987 as President and CEO of a privately-held company, Laura Scudder’s, Inc. From 1969 to 1983, he served as Senior Vice President of Fotomat Corporation and President of its subsidiary, Video Services of America. He holds a B.S. in Management and Business Administration from Columbia Pacific University.

GAMEPLAN INC
Form: 10KSB Filing Date: 3/30/2000

Shayne Del Cohen, Secretary and a director is 54 years of age. Ms. Del Cohen graduated from Columbia Pacific University in 1988 with a Ph.D. in International Law, M.A. International Law from the School for International Training in 1988 and a B.A. in Community Development from Friends World College in 1970. Ms. Del Cohen is an independent Management and Development consultant since 1988.

COMFORCE CORP
Form: S-1/A Filing Date: 10/18/1996

DR. GLEN MILLER has served as a Director since December 1995. Vice President - Business Development of TeleData International, a telecommunications service company. From 1990 to 1994, Dr. Miller was responsible for strategic planning for the Harris Corporation. From 1984 to 1990, he was responsible for the direction and arrangement of business activities in various markets nationwide for GTE Telecom, a telecommunications company. Dr. Miller is a retired Colonel, U.S. Air Force, and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University.

REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP
Form: S-4/A Filing Date: 8/10/1994

BILL G. WATERS obtained his B.A. degree from Berry College and his Masters of Health Administration degree from Columbia Pacific University. He has been employed by Floyd Medical Center since 1966 and has served as that institution's President since 1984. He has served on the Boards of Directors of numerous health-related organizations.

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Point Reyes Light - December 30, 1999

Chileno man's 'diploma mill' ordered shut


By Gregory Foley
A Marin judge last week ordered a controversial correspondence college co-founded by Chileno Valley resident Dr. Les Carr to shut down and pay restitution to its students.

The state had been trying for more than two years to close Columbia Pacific University in Novato, which has been issuing bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees through the mail since 1978.

Orrin Grover, the attorney representing Les Carr and Columbia Pacific, said the university has no plans to close. Judge Lynn Duryee's ruling was a "tentative decision" that cannot be enforced until it's actually signed by the judge, he said.

"If the judge adopts the decision then we will appeal," offered Grover, who said the decision then would be stayed until the appeal is resolved.

For his part, Carr also continues to work parttime as a psychologist at San Quentin State Prison, though prison administrators declined to offer any details on his duties there.

Carr could not be reached to confirm his activities within or outside of Columbia Pacific University.


Operating without permit
The university has been operating without state permission since June 1997, when a judge upheld a stinging review of the school's academic standards by the Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, the state agency that formerly regulated private education.

Judge Duryee on Dec. 2 granted a request by state deputy attorney general Asher Rubin to impose a permanent injunction against the school's operation, and to refund fees to all of its students.

In addition, Duryee issued four separate fines totaling $10,000 for the university's "deceptive and unfair practices" in continuing to operate without authorization and make false claims about its status.

The ruling upholds a preliminary injunction issued in a Dec. 1997 suit against the school by the state attorney general's office.

Despite this month's ruling, the university has continued to provide its "distance learning" programs for an estimated 500 to 600 students.


Carr testifies
Attorney Grover told The Light he thinks the state's case against the university is not particularly strong, and that Judge Duryee may have felt "she didn't have the authority to overturn the Council's decision."

Deputy attorney general Rubin called only two witnesses during the two-day trial, Grover said. One of them was Carr, who is the Dean of Faculty.

"The most important thing I see here is that the state has not presented in any proceeding a student or a graduate that was dissatisfied with the university," he said.

Among the satisfied graduates of Columbia Pacific is Mill Valley author John Gray, Ph. D., who is well-known for his best-selling self-help bible Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

Gray's favorable comments about the school's programs have often punctuated Columbia Pacific's promotional literature.

However, records of the state Council's records in reviewing the university list numerous violations of academic standards, including one instance in which a Ph. D. dissertation written in Spanish was approved by four faculty members who could not speak the language.


Faculty not qualified
An independent administrative law judge in June 1997 upheld the Council's call to shut the school after finding that Columbia Pacific administrators awarded "excessive credit" and "failed to employ duly qualified faculty."

The following December, Rubin with the Attorney General's Office sued Carr and Colombia Pacific "to compel [the university] to stop illegally operating." Rubin called the school "a consumer fraud, a complete scam," and "a diploma mill." The suit finally resulted in the preliminary injunction against the university which was appealed in March of this year.

In rendering her decision, Judge Duryee noted that the testimony of satisfied graduates doesn't amount to complying with the law. "The decision is not whether or not the students are dissatisfied," she said. "I mean that is not the test. It's like saying, you know, that prostitution should not be illegal because the customers are satisfied. It's not the test."

Carr, a resident at 148 Wilson Hill Rd. in Chileno Valley, and Richard Crews of Mill Valley founded the university. Carr has also drawn criticism for his role in other ventures.


Carr's other troubles
The state shut down Oakland's Highview Convalescent Hospital, which Carr owned until 1990, after inspectors discovered the facility violated health codes on several counts.

Carr also briefly lost his directorship of the American Endurance Ride Conference in 1990 after being accused of mistreating a horse. He sued to maintain his position, but was suspended from competition as a rider.

In 1994, the Marin planning department discovered eight permit-less dormitories on Carr's Wilson Hill Road property, and he was cited for several zoning, safety, and health violations at the so-called "north campus" of Columbia Pacific.

He was forced to remove the illegal structures, as well as to strike references to "a retreat center on a beautiful 14-acre ranch in northern Marin county" in Columbia Pacific's promotional literature.

Marin principal planner Dean Powell said this week there are currently no outstanding violations on Carr's property.

 

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Columbia State University in New Orleans.

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Herbert W. Anderson, Jr.
Executive Vice President Operations

Herbert W. Anderson, Jr., Executive Vice President - Operations, is responsible for urban operations throughout Standard Parking's Midwest, Great Plains, Southern, and Eastern Canada regions. He directs sales and operational activities, evaluates and oversees client operational plans and adjusts those plans to meet the parking market's changing conditions.

Mr. Anderson has held numerous positions in his career in the parking industry, including Senior Vice President, Corporate Vice President, General Manager and Operations Manager. He is on the Board of the National Parking Institute. He is also an international member of BOMA.

Mr. Anderson received his Bachelor's of Business Administration with a major in Marketing from Columbia State University in New Orleans.



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Drive-Thru Degrees
Unaccredited Degree Holders Fool Public



May 16 — You might think that a "love doctor" in Phoenix, a college professor in Howell, Mich., and a court administrator in Tucson, Ariz., would have impressive educations.

Both list Columbia State University on their resumes.
What their employers didn't know is that Columbia State is not a college or university at all. It was a diploma mill that shipped out phony certificates until federal agents shut the operation down in 1998.

As Good Morning America's consumer correspondent Greg Hunter first reported a few months ago, there are hundreds of diploma mills, organizations that pose as accredited schools, issuing degrees.

In his ongoing probe, Hunter has found several cases of people in high-profile jobs who purchased such degrees from Columbia State.

A Common and Bogus Link

"Columbia State did not exist. It was never even the tiniest bit close to real," said John Bear, an author who tracks so-called "diploma mills" and who has served as an expert witness for the FBI on the subject.

Bear estimates there are nearly 500 fake schools selling degrees on the Internet. One investigation found that thousands of degrees were sold to federal employees with everyone from congressional staff members, to NASA employees, to U.S. Customs and even Pentagon workers holding degrees from diploma mills, he said.

In the case of Columbia State, Bear says that even the school's brochure cover was fake. The building pictured on it is really a historic mansion outside of New York City. Columbia State was nothing more than a mail drop in Metarie, La. Its operators shipped diplomas from a warehouse in California.

"They never had a campus. They never had a faculty. They never required any work," Bear said. "Columbia State [was] totally, totally fraudulent."


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another bogus guy in sec filings LaSalle University in Louisiana

another bogus guy in sec filings LaSalle University in Louisiana


QT 5 INC
Form: 424B3 Filing Date: 3/3/2004

TIMOTHY J. OWENS. Chief Executive Officer and Director. Mr. Owens is our founder and has been Chief Executive Officer since our inception. >From March 1994 to January 1999, Mr. Owens served as Chief Executive Officer of Job Services, Inc., a privately held company. Mr. Owens received his Masters of Science Degree in Finance from LaSalle University in Louisiana. Mr. Owens also received letters of academic excellence in engineering from President Gerald R. Ford and President James Carter in 1976 and 1978.

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Officials in Oregon recently revoked credentials of three teachers found using master's degrees in 2002 from LaSalle, one of several scandals nationwide that suggest the diploma mill problem in the United States is getting worse, the Associated Press reported last week.

LaSalle University locations in New Orleans and Mandeville, La., are included on the State of Michigan's list of colleges and universities not recognized by an accrediting body of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation.



A DEGREE OF CONCERN




TOM WILLARD May 09, 2004





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Special meeting
The Madison District Board of Education will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. Monday to further discuss the issue of Superintendent Steve Johnson's academic credentials.



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MADISON HEIGHTS - Questions about whether Madison District Public Schools Superintendent Steve Johnson earned a doctorate degree as he has claimed remain unanswered.

Johnson and his administrative staff offered little information during the last week to clear up concerns raised by members of the Board of Education about the Ph.D. that Johnson said he received from LaSalle University in 1996, shortly after being hired by the school district.

The board will discuss the brewing controversy at a special meeting Monday, 7 p.m., at Wilkinson Middle School.

Trustee DiAnne Cagle Leitermann told the board May 3 that her attempts to verify the degree in the last several months have been futile. Madison district was not provided Johnson's doctorate transcripts - only a photocopy of what appears to be a diploma from LaSalle University for a doctorate in philosophy in education issued to Johnson in 1996.

The document does not indicate the city or state in which the university is located and Johnson has not specified which LaSalle University conferred the degree, raising questions about its legitimacy.

Leitermann said she found record of five current or defunct LaSalle colleges and universities in the United States, none of which have offered Ph.D. programs in the same field. The most prominent of those schools - the accredited LaSalle University in Philadelphia - has never offered a doctorate in education, according to a spokesman.

Before the feds shut it down in the late 1990s, LaSalle University in Louisiana was what is known as a "diploma mill" - an institution that sells a college degree for little or no coursework.

Officials in Oregon recently revoked credentials of three teachers found using master's degrees in 2002 from LaSalle, one of several scandals nationwide that suggest the diploma mill problem in the United States is getting worse, the Associated Press reported last week.

LaSalle University locations in New Orleans and Mandeville, La., are included on the State of Michigan's list of colleges and universities not recognized by an accrediting body of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation.

Leitermann requested copies of Johnson's doctorate transcripts at a Board of Education meeting in March. Board members were provided only the photocopied diploma and a title page from his doctorate dissertation. They were informed that the original dissertation would follow at a later date, but that has not yet occurred.

Last week, Johnson refused to tell board members the name or location of the institution from which he received his doctorate on the advice of an attorney, who was at the meeting but who would not identify himself.

District spokeswoman Rosemarie Jayroe informed officials that the transcripts weren't available because Oakland Schools conducted the superintendent search that brought Johnson to Madison.

Then-Oakland Schools Superintendent James Redmond was instrumental in the local district's decision to hire Johnson, hired as interim school chief in 1996, said Shelley Yorke-Rose, spokeswoman for the intermediate school district.

Redmond and Johnson were friends from their days as school administrators in Oregon, said Yorke-Rose.

Redmond, who faces felony embezzlement and misconduct charges following an investigation into alleged misdeeds at Oakland Schools, listed Johnson as a reference on his application for the ISD chief position in 1995.

Redmond told Madison officials at the time of their search that Johnson was working on his doctorate, according to Leitermann, who resigned from the Oakland Schools Board of Education in the wake of the ISD scandal.

Redmond wrote much of the language in the contract approved for Johnson by the Madison board, added Leitermann.

Some of the board's seven members said whether Johnson's degree is valid is irrelevant because a doctorate wasn't a requirement for the position.

Leitermann said that board members have cited the degree as the basis for pay raises granted Johnson during his eight-year tenure, however. Others dispute that claim.

Trustee Cindy Holder questioned the timing of an investigation into the superintendent's credentials now and suggested that Leitermann was on a "witch hunt."

Johnson makes approximately $250,000 in base salary and incentives as head of the district, which has a deficit of more than $1 million. He has been credited by members of the board with improving Madison's finances since he was hired.

Officials decided against hiring an attorney to determine if Johnson's degree is bogus, opting instead of discuss the matter further on Monday.

"A man's reputation is on the line," said Trustee Keith Beguhn. "That's not something we throw around lightly."





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ERAN GOLDSHMID, DAG MEDIA INC DIRECTOR AND THE RAIDED DIPLOMA MILL DEGREE

ERAN GOLDSHMID, DAG MEDIA INC DIRECTOR AND THE RAIDED DIPLOMA MILL DEGREE

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DAG MEDIA INC
Form: DEF 14A Filing Date: 6/11/2003

Eran Goldshmid, 36, has been a member of our Board of Directors since March
1999. Mr. Goldshmid received certification as a financial consultant in
February 1993 from the school for Investment Consultants, Tel Aviv, Israel,
and a BA in business administration from the University of Humberside,
England in December 1998. From December 1998 until July 2001, he has been
the general manager of the Carmiel Shopping Center in Carmiel, Israel.
Since August 2001, he is the president of the New
York Diamond Center, New York, NY.
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Police probe university's fake degrees

2004-01-22 12:42 (New York)
LONDON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Israeli police are investigating a British university
that issued fake degrees to 5,500 Israeli government employees, the Times of
London reported Thursday.
Teachers, police, army officers and senior civil servants were among those who
paid for fictitious qualifications from the University of Humberside, which has
changed its name numerous times and is now known as the University of Lincoln.
Police spokesman Yehuda Maman said the university opened franchises around
Israel.
"Anywhere that was big enough to hold a desk and a chair, including in one case
a gas station, became a branch of the University of Humberside," Maman said.
Four managers of the university's operation in Israel have been arrested and
the country's fraud squad officers said at least one member of the staff in
Britain was involved in the fraud.
The university has franchises in 26 countries across Europe, the Middle East
and South East Asia.
The university ended its Israeli enrolment program in July 1999, when concerns
were voiced about the validity of the degrees.

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