Columbia State time bomb explodes

Columbia State time bomb reported by Mark Israel in this thread has exploded: Executive's degree from Louisiana diploma mill.

 

Hmm.

dateline 4 Sep. 2003: Nashville City Paper announces the appointment.

15 Sep. 2003: I find the announcement with a Google search, and copy it to DegreeInfo.

16 Sep. 2003 (dateline 17 Sep.): Nashville City Paper does a story, "Executive's degree from Louisiana diploma mill". The reporters don't say what brought the story to their attention, but quote "Dr. John Bear, a tracker of diploma mills".

Of course, the reporters may have already been working on the story when I copied the announcement here. Still, I wonder if I'm just reading the news, or if I, unawares, detonated the time bomb.

 

Weekly papers usually have more than a one-day-in-advance deadline. When the man phoned me from the Nashville paper, I should have, but didn't, ask him how he learned of the situation. But he clearly had done some homework, because he familiar with my vicarious Nashville connection (i.e. from living there for a few years while Marina was doing her Ph.D.).

 

Thank you for the response.

The Nashville City Paper is published 5 days a week: http://www.allyoucanread.com/newspapers.asp?id=Y6861

 

"This concern peaked [sic] the interest of Dr. Donna Pascoe, instructor in the department of educational foundations, leadership and training [sic; the Department is actually called "Educational Foundations, Leadership and Technology"] at Auburn University, when she was a graduate student at Columbia State University. 'I was working at a junior high when I noticed students were having to carry large loads of books,' Pascoe said. 'I couldn’t believe those kids were having to bear so much on such small frames.' This observation prompted Donna and her husband Dr. David Pascoe, associate professor in the department of health and human performances at Auburn University, to research the effects of carrying heavy bookbags on students."
-- http://www.theplainsman.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/17/3f69f5059bbb7

Let's hope this is wildly inaccurate. The Auburn University Directory http://www.auburn.edu/main/ldap.html doesn't even know about Donna Pascoe, although she is David Pascoe's wife: http://www.univrel.auburn.edu/multimedia/publications/LAweb_2001/pascoe.htm

 

Here's Donna Pascoe's CV at Columbus State: http://celps.colstate.edu/pascoe/vitae.htm

 

You should have cut the blue wire, ha!

 

If only we hadn't "Americanized"* that rather unpleasant guy Cristobal Colon, problems like this would be less likely to occur.

Colon State University?
District of Colon?
Colon, the Gem of the Ocean?

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* Vespucci-ized?

 

Thanks, OxPecker. Whew!

"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 [sic] list Columbia State University on their resumes."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA010516Diploma_mills2.html#1

You can still order a Columbia State University diploma today from http://www.diplomaservices.com/schoollist.htm. Strangely, they have a list of "Fake colleges", but they place "Columbia State University" elsewhere.