The University of Newlands is advertising on H-Net for history lecturers. Seems to be a new outfit, based in NZ. Fees quoted in US$, no mention of accreditation, no physical address on website http://www.universityofnewlands.com, and seems to offer their degrees by essay-writing. Some technical stuff follows. Jon Porter Indianapolis ----------------------------------- Posted to the N-Net job guide: http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs/jobview.cfm?ID=5238 University of Newlands Lecturers in History-Several Positions Location: United States Submitted: August 21, 2002 Closing Date: open until further notice Primary Category: General/World Secondary Categories: None The University of Newlands is a virtual or internet university so applicants will not be required to change location. The positions are part-time and the courses to be taught are those on the history page of the university's web site. Please e-mail your application and curriculum vitae to and we will provide you with detailed course information. Rochelle Forrester University of Newlands Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.universityofnewlands.com [But wait, there's more!!] VisualRoute says IP 12.129.206.11, in Santa Monica CA OnlineNIC Whois Search says: Registrant : Rochelle Forrester [email protected] (04) 477-6888 Best Information Ltd 14 Longcroft Terrace, Newlands Wellington -- NZ 6004 Domain Name: universityofnewlands.com {universityofnewlands.com } Registration Date : 2002-7-9 Expiration Date : 2003-7-9 Last update :2002-07-09 08:05:22 Domain Name Server: ns1.ipowerweb.net 66.33.90.15 ns2.ipowerweb.net 12.129.206.200 Administrator/Billing Contact: Rochelle Forrester [email protected] (04) 477-6888 Best Information Ltd 14 Longcroft Terrace, Newlands Wellington -- NZ 6004 Technical Contact: Domain Manager [email protected] 310-314-1608 iPowerWeb, Inc 2800 28th Street Suite 205 Santa Monica CA United States 90405
Hello, The web page made me a little nervous with the lack of accreditation status? Is anyone familiar with this school? Hille
I just did a search on Google. For 'university of newlands', all that came up was the same H-net advertisement that Jon posted. For 'newlands university', I got several pages worth of professors named 'Newlands', at 'University' of something or other, and one vague and mysterious reference (on a page about karate instructors) to a British 'Newlands University' in a town with the wonderful sounding name of Chalfont St. Giles. http://www.chilternkarate.co.uk/instructors.html I was struck by the fact that I could not find a physical address listed on the University of Newlands' website. It isn't even clear what country it's located in. (My guess is that the omission is intentional.) Newlands already seems to be up and running, accepting students and offering doctoral programs. Does anyone in their right mind believe that a real university, whether in New Zealand, the US or the UK, could be created from the ground up without any mention on the web at all? No mention of a major new DL university on any government, educational, news or local websites? No scholars claiming it as an institutional affiliation? (It's already offering Ph.D.s.) No internal planning materials or mentions by contractors? Yeah, right. I believe that.
And the lack of everything else! The key staff page is blank, there's no mailing address, no telephone or fax number. And they want you to enter your credit card number on a non-secure page.
