NBC "Fleecing of America"

OK Oxpecker help us out here,

Lisa Meyers had a story on NBC "Fleecing of America" that supposedly featured KWU. Could someone find a link to it?

 

And what school did they feature, in "The Fleecing of America?"

The only one, I believe, that they mentioned by name?

Quite unexpectedly: Kennedy-Western University!!!

And they said the General Accounting Office report, public tomorrow it seems, had found 50 very high level government employees in just the six agencies, with K-WU degrees. While they were saying this, they were showing pictures of lots of federal student aid checks made out to Kennedy-Western.

 

I finally found a link to the video.

Here

 

Interesting. It seems K-W will be getting a lot of attention. Maybe the FBI is ready to look into this more thoroughly.

 

Didn't they also mention Lexington University? I thought that was the first school cited.

Overall I was pleased with the story. It certainly seems like the subject is getting some publicity these days.



Tom Nixon

 

Someone called Kennedy-Western University a degree Mill!!! Don't they know that KWU is lisenced [sic for old times sake] in the state of Wyoming?

 

Not Pacific Western University too?

 

What scares me is that I actually thought of taking a degree from these folks. Then I found THIS board. (What's the emoticon for "grateful"?)

 

PARDON ME WHILE I VENT.........

I saw the CBS version of the GAO story. Maybe I'm looking at the story the WRONG way, but CBS just took the sensationalist perspective "...____ number of people in the (insert scariest sounding federal agency) have FAKE DEGREES!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Okay, but what about a very brief discussion of accredidation?

You know, so that well-meaning folks who are really trying to get a degree DON'T GET TAKEN BY THE CONS???

I know, I know, "THATS NOT OUR JOB WE ARE NOT A CONSUMER PROTECTION AGENCY, EXCEPT OF COURSE WHEN IT MAY SERVE TO INCREASE OUR RATINGS!"

I have nothing but contempt for the so-called news organizations!

 

Degree Mills

I look forward to the Senate hearings and the GAO report. I just hope that it gets a decent amount of press, since Iraq and the Campaign seems to be dominating the airwaves.

Gunsmoke: TV and radio are going to sensationalize certain parts of the Hearings and the Report, it's the nature of the medium. Other than "60 Minutes" which is more of a news magazine, nightly news only has time for snippets of info. The more in depth stories - that includes a discussion of accreditation - will be in the better newspapers.