Misleading info !

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  1. manjuap

    manjuap New Member

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  2. Chsheaf

    Chsheaf New Member

    Re: RA Pacific Western

    Pacific Western University CA is actually a state approved school. It has an excellent program and the degree is widely accepted throughout the country. It is not, however, regionally accedited.
     
  3. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    I think PWU is very shady. They have two standards. The Hawaii version and the California version.

    Different requirements and different prices.
     
  4. Chsheaf

    Chsheaf New Member

    PWU Two Standards?

    I did notice that PWU does have two standards but I can't figure out why. One is required to complete the exact same coursework in both schools. I just suspected that the HI. campus was merely a branch of the CA. campus. Can you shed anymore light on this.
    Thanks
     
  5. Randell1234

    Randell1234 Moderator

    When I called, several years ago, I was told that the Hawaii school can offer a degree based on prior knowledge and the California school requires course work.

    Maybe someone else has more info.
     
  6. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Re: PWU Two Standards?

    California used to (before 1989) have three basic levels of permitting schools to operate. The highest was Accredited. The next was Approved--where the state actually performed an evaluation. (Originally, this form of recognition was extended to individual degree programs, later to entire schools.) The lowest level was Authorized--where the state simply required schools to submit their applications; no evaluation was performed.

    From its inception until 1989, PWU operated as Authorized. When California then eliminated the Authorized category, it required schools to be Approved. PWU pushed most of its programs to Hawaii, which didn't require much to get a license. It left a few programs in California and got them Approved.

    Both versions of PWU are operated from California. Why the state tolerates this dodge I do not know. (Lack of enforcement staff and/or lack of complaints are my two guesses.)

    You also said: "Pacific Western University CA is actually a state approved school. It has an excellent program and the degree is widely accepted throughout the country." Who says it is excellent? Is there any competent educational authority that makes this distinction. (The BPPVE doesn't; it merely approves PWU to operate.) "Widely accepted" by whom? Do you have some sort of support for this statement? Again, has any competent educational authority expressed such a judgment? I've never seen it, and I've been following PWU for 24 years. Just wondering....
     
  7. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Chseaf refers to the "Hawaii campus."

    When a national news show (American Journal) did a major feature on Pacific Western (in which one of their reporters was able to get a Master's degree, start to finish, in ten days), they visited the "Hawaii campus" and found it to be an empty room adjoining PWU's lawyers' offices.
     

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