State of California Is a Party to Fraud?

Given the standard not being "brutally high," what was it about California Coast University's Ph.D. program which did not qualify for approval?

 

It is most definitely misleading. I'll take your posts as the perfect example. Remember when you went and grabbed the definition of what California approval was supposed to mean? It doesn't mean that, PWU is an example that proves that it doesn't mean what it even claims. If you read the Rich Douglas dissertation, he provides statistics on the acceptablity of the term state approval and it strongly indicates (IMHO) that state approval is misunderstood. Look at Alan Contreras's example of how it is misleading to claim state approval to people outside the USA. Look at all the examples of degree mill victims that have come to DegreeInfo and said "but they claimed that they are state approved".

Just because the state has a specific definition of a certain term it doesn't mean that the use isn't misleading to the general public. State approval means something different to the general public than what is defined by California statute. That means that it is misleading to the public when they see a school claiming that they are CA state approved.

 

To mislead and to be misunderstood are two distinctly separate concepts. I agree that CA State Approval is misunderstood but it is not because the statutes are misleading. Accreditation and Approval are clearly defined. To me, the problem is that there are a lot of (too many?) people with preconceived notions who don't want to take the time to read and comprehend these details and would rather have the media explain it to them. Even then, (as a figure of speech) they don't listen half the time and the media gets it wrong the other half.