prevention of diploma mills "mostly successful"!

Bruce Chaloux, the Southern Regional Education Board's expert on distance education, [...] says there has been an effort to prevent diploma mills from taking advantage of it and it has been mostly successful. "There are good strategies in place to work against that," he said.
-- http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030721-114105-5164r

 

Many years ago there was some business organization that used to give annual "Ossie" awards (a small statue of an ostrich with its head in the sand) for obvious reasons.

I think it is time to revive the Ossie for Mr. Chaloux.

 

I concur with Dr Bear, except that the 'ostrich with its head in the sad' appears to be some sort of fantasy, as no one has ever seen this phenomenon. But again the award seems, in this case, to be more than appropriate.
"Duck Man in Paradise'

 

Dr Bear, are you going to write a letter to Bruce Chaloux, or to Les Kjos (the reporter who quoted him); or should somebody else do it?

I'm glad to agree with FNHayes, for once:

"Why do ostriches bury their heads in the sand?
This is in fact a myth. When sitting on their nests, the birds are at their most vulnerable to predators, so they lay their long necks flat on the ground to make themselves less conspicuous. To early observers it looked as though they had put their heads in the sand."
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/mfacts/webfacts/4B4968146D7D0F9480256786004203B7

"Why do ostriches stick their heads in the sand? To search for water"
http://www.cities97.com/Archive/MuchTooEarly/2003/February.htm

"Lesser Flamingos eat blue-green algae by waving their heads from side to side and filtering gallons of water through comb-like hairs and small teeth in their bills called lamellae."
http://www.thomsonsafaris.com/newsletter/nl25_flamingo.htm

 

Dr Bear, are you going to write a letter to Bruce Chaloux, or to Les Kjos (the reporter who quoted him); or should somebody else do it?

 

From another thread, I understand that SOuthern Regional is doing a better job than North Central.

UofP went to North Central to be accredited. That speaks volumes.

 

Borisdarling,

The Southern Regional Education Board is not an accrediting agency. SREB's 16 member states fall under the scope of at least three regional accrediting agencies, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation.

I don't mean to be contentious, but do you know of specific reasons why the Univiersity of Phoenix should not be accredited?