$57 per unit! Well, I guess you can't label them as a for-profit university. Here's something else to chew on:
I did go and look. Not enough there. That said, they didn't make huge grandeous claims and were upfront about their age. They did mention DETC and gave a time line for trying for accreditation. Not much on course delivery except that it's on the internet and you need books. Price is nice, but with no history . . .
A Google search for 'glamshier' generated 193 hits. Virtually all of them were from a set of identically worded advertisements placed on a wide variety of sites. (I guess that there are internet PR companies that will do that for you. I saw the same thing with Akamai.) Figuring that if a real new university is starting up, that other universities would have something to say about it, I did a search for 'glamshier' site:.edu. That search produced 2 hits, Glamshier's own site and a Columbia computer science department list of sites with .edu suffixes. And despite not even being in operation yet, the website features testimonials from "students" in France, Australia, Iowa and Zimbabwe. What's up with that? I'm not impressed, but as PhD2B says, time will tell.
The 'campus' is at the same address as the "AA Registered Agent and Professional Services, Inc." which appears to be a mailbox service. One Google 'hit' is Mr. Arshad Malik, of Boomerang, with a Bachelor's from Florida Green University, and a Master's from Glamshier. Florida Green is definitely of the 'goatbag' character, with its incorporation in Delaware, a mail drop campus in Miami, and apparently run from Pakistan, and accreditation from the notorious World Association of Universities and Colleges. The Glamshier site says Bachelor's degrees must be from a recognized school. Another hit, on a Pakistani site, says "KARACHI: Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Institute of Management Sciences and Technology affiliated with Glamshier University of USA is organising a seminar on "International business and the challenges of the year 2000", here at a local hotel on Saturday." It is dated June 1997, long before Glamshier ostensibly was founded. So we have a Gregory M Budunov, Ph.D., Russian emigré in Chicago running a university at what appears to be a Wyoming mail drop, with Pakistani connections. Recall that one of the major Wyoming wonders is Preston University, also run from Pakistan. The Wyoming corporate records show Budunov as the President, Secretary, and the only Director, and a stock issue of 1,000 shares valued at 1 cent each, for a total corporate value of $10.
