Pacific American University NOT AMERICAN PACIFIC UNIVERSITY

It appears to me no English literature exists about the Pacific American University which in its Chinese promotional literature alleges "was established in 1982 as Pacific Comm-unity Institute, A Division of Touro College."

It's headed by Lester L. Wolff,former congressman.

Any idea about this school?I think it's a diploma mill but can not find any English literature about the school....Lester has visited China recently and spoke voluminously about the incredible strength of the school.

Please enlighten me

 

Sounded good until you said it was headed by a former politician.

 

Congressional record,so far this is the only document made a mention of Pacific American University and Pacific American International Higher Education Schools Council...

what can i tell Chinese authority?Former congressman is in cahoots with diploma mill operator to launch imperialist invasion into China?Congressional record indicates,they explicitly target Chinese as they implicitly perceive us to be gullible and merit being milked?When we have been taken for a ride,they will show us the previous official record that we are predicably prone to be duped?

Shall i consider forming a Pacific Chinese University to stage the counter-attack?but you guys will not buy my Non- RA coures.......







HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to enter into the RECORD a recent speech given by a distinguished former Member of this body, Former Congressman Lester L. Wolff before an Assembly of Asian educators on May 20th in New York. Congressman Wolff served as Chairman of the House Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee and is now Chairman of the Pacific Community Institute.



INAUGURATION OF THE PACIFIC AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION SCHOOLS COUNCIL
With a new look and focus after two decades of service, the Pacific Community Institute (PCI), continues to work towards its purpose of creating a community of interests in the Pacific Rim. With those goals in mind, I am proud to announce today the inauguration of the Pacific American International Higher Education Schools Council.

Because the United States was originally an off-shoot of Europe, there is a historical tendency to think of the U.S. as an Atlantic nation only. However, the United States has historically been involved in the Pacific since 1784, its Pacific Coast is longer than the Atlantic Coast, and the State of Hawaii is in the Pacific . The commitment of the United States to the Pacific has also been sealed in active diplomacy and several wars for freedom and democracy.

The basic principle of the Pacific Community Institute (PCI) is to promote community, based upon respect for individuals and the traditions of its members. Building on ties of trade and kinship, which have long existed among the countries of the Pacific Rim, PCI seeks to facilitate interaction and cooperation toward the solution of common problems. PCI aims to obviate such problems by enabling the nations of the Pacific Rim to explore together, at the working level, means to contemporary activities, and new, creative solutions to the common concerns. PCI is supplementary and supportive without competing with existing organizations.

PCI believes that true community may be facilitated by the revolution in communication and information technology, but that it must be created by people in concert, in person. For that reason, PCI remains committed to facilitating face-to-face interaction as significant step toward building a climate of cooperation. The advent of the World Wide Web has made the task of the PCI simpler in some respects, by permitting the movement of information in a more efficient manner. Yet without a sense of the human being sending an e-mail, or the organization maintaining a website, the official, the executive, or the academic who may be seeking a solution remains uncertain and unconvinced.

The Pacific Community Institute seeks today to promote international education based on the concept that both sides of the Pacific can learn from each other. PCI is currently working to develop a graduate level, Western-style curriculum in business. The role of the PCI is to oversee the content of the program, curriculum, the credentials of the instructors, and performance of graduates. In general, PCI fosters the idea of appropriate conferences designed to enhance the sort of personal contact that makes an e-mail message a genuine commodity, and not a nuisance.

The Pacific Community Institute, in its role to improve inter-relationships, understanding, and economic well-being within the nations of the Pacific region, is in the process of organizing such an organization: The Pacific American International Higher Education Schools Council. The Council, composed of an elite professional group of Academicians, will create and oversee an MBA program to meet the high standards of the International Community and the special needs of the educational requirements of young people residing in the Pacific Rim.

Selected to head the Council is Dr. Wayne Patterson who has served as Dean in Residence of the National Council of Graduate Schools. Invitations to participate in the Council have been extended to: Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, Dean of Graduate Schools at Howard University , former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools; Dr. Marcia Welsh, Provost and V.P., Academic Affairs, Adelphi University ; Dr. Sung Lee, former Vice Provost, Michigan Tech, now executive at Carnegie Mellon; Dr. Thomas Maresh, former Dean of the Graduate School at Oregon State University ; Dr. J. Kent Morrison, President at Walden University ; Dr. Robert Ringold, Provost at Purdue University ; Dr. Robert Rudd, former Dean of School of Business at Charleston College and have met with a strong positive response.

The Pacific American University was founded in 2002, as a division of the Northern Institute of Business Management, an affiliate of The Pacific Community Institute, Inc., in order to bring the highest quality of American-developed higher education to students in China and other Pacific region countries. The initial degree offering by the Pacific American University is the Master of Business Administration. The curriculum is designed to be aligned with many MBA programs in the United States.



The Pacific American University is a research-oriented private university dedicated to providing educational experiences of exceptional quality, based on the traditions of American higher education, to students of high academic potential in China and in other countries throughout the Pacific region. Further, the University is dedicated to attracting and sustaining a cadre of faculty who are, through their teaching and research, committed to the development of distinguished and compassionate graduates and to the quest for solutions to human and social problems.

 

A former politician? Probably the first school to offer a Bachelor of Corruption degree via distance learning in only 12 days!

Better yet, a Master of Political Paybacks degree by submitting a one paragraph thesis.

I just see all those bogus accreditation agencies knocking on their door now!

 

They have an English language website but the main page java directory doesn't work. Try to hit it from this link:
http://www.pacificamericanuniversity.com/Introduction_.htm

In addition to the China and Virginia addresses they show on the website, they also have an address in Anaheim you can find at this link.

http://www.anaheim.net/business/june01.html

 

Gary Ackerman is not a former politician. He is currently a member of the United States House of Representatives.

I would suspect that he is your best source for finding out more info on this. (Although he, personally, probably knows little or nothing about it, his staffers can find out, at the least.) Anyway, I would contact his office directly. Phone is preferable to e-mail, but I understand this may not be possible if you are in China.

No matter what the method of contact is, I would suggest asking to speak the the "Education L.A." (L.A. stands for "legislative assistant, but if you just ask for the L.A., they will assume you are a lobbyist or some insider and likely put you right through.) If they ask what it's regarding, be as vague as possible -- say it's about education in the Congressman's district. (Always stress that this is relevant to the Congressman's district.)

Also, it appears that this text comes from a "Special Orders" speech. I'm not saying that Special Orders are often political payoffs, but I'm not saying that they're not... If you can out the names of individuals associated with this school, you might want to run their names through the Political Money Line database. You might just find that they were heavy contributors to the Congressman's campaign.

Link:
Congrssman Gary Ackerman's Website

Jeff
Former "L.A."