Greetings. I was recently discussing www.calcampus.com (nee CALC, the Computer Aided Learning Center) and the name Ray Chasse popped up. This, in turn, prompted this posting. First a little back ground information. I discovered CALC back in '89 when it left whatever online service it was previously on and joined GEnie (General Electric Network Information Exchange). At the time, they made it perfectly clear that they weren't a college. They didn't offer "degrees", and they had no "doctors" on staff. All they did was offer high quality classes, cheaply, without the mind-numbing, will-destroying, bloated bureaucracy with which traditional colleges are associated. It was swell. I learned to factor binomial equations, and other swell stuff in my two "College Algebra" classes. <g> I, like the rest of the world <g>, drifted away from GEnie (and Genie). When I went looking for information about my alma mater a decade later I discovered www.calcampus.com and Ray Chasse. Now that I've brought you up to speed, perhaps you can do the same for me. Some questions: Was Ray Chasse always behind CALC(ampus)? What about Dr. Morabito (CALC's director)? I always thought CALC(ampus) was her baby, yet she goes unsung. This seems particularly unfair, as CALC surely must have been at the vanguard of online distance learning in the USA. Misogynists! A quick visit to CALC's web site reveals that CALC has now come to some sort of arrangement with the highly dodgy seeming "International University of Professional Studies" (http://www.calcampus.com/college.htm). What could be possessing the poor woman?!? Is there some other link between both institutions that I don't know about? In summary, if you know something of the history of Ray Chasse, Dr. Morabito, or CALC, and are keen to waste time, please post it here! <g> Cordially, Richard Kanarek
