MIGS Forum - to be or not to be?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussions' started by Dr. Gina, Aug 30, 2003.

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  1. Dr. Gina

    Dr. Gina New Member

    A question.....


    What is the status of the MIGS forum? Will it stay or will it go? I only ask this because I feel that it can either be changed or renamed to better utilize it.
     
  2. bgossett

    bgossett New Member

    I would describe it as dormant.:)

    Hopes are that it will eventually be archived in an accessible form.

    Creating new forums and/or sub-forums is the work of five minutes. Several possibilities have been suggested, and I imagine that one or more may eventually materialize.
     
  3. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    This is a question that has arisen on a fairly consistent basis here at degreeinfo.com. Granted, the forum is rarely used and has no significant current contributions, but it does serve a purpose nonetheless: it is the most significant case study of consumers and activists shooting a degree mill straight to hell in a handbasket (where it belongs), and is one of the funniest instances of this as well.

    It is also an outstanding example of a cooperative effort to eradicate a degree mill that had major financial backing from the so-called "Queen of the Internet" (Sheila Danzig), one that had the balls to file a lawsuit against a consumer advocate against degree mills (which, coincidentally, was me). Many degree mills threaten lawsuits, very few actually go ahead and file them. MIGS did so, and shot itself in the foot in the process, to the extent that it was actually fined well over $200,000 by the State of texas as a direct result of claims that they made in their own suit.

    The joint effort came in the form of many people on this forum who contributed to the research that brought them down - most notably, Gus Sainz. Not to mention the early critiques of those who recognized it from the get-go as a mill (Chip White comes to mind). The issue also generated a cartoon by degreeinfo.com member H. Piper that should go down as a classic . Not to mention, as well, that it provided an outstanding example of how someone with a supposedly legitimate reputation (Rich Douglas, who eventually saw the light and earned a legit Ph.D. from Union) could be snockered in by MIGS to the extent that he became their ultimate apologist.

    Why keep the MIGS forum? Because it remains degreeinfo.com's greatest success story in terms of cooperatively busting a degree mill and disintegrating it into oblivion, where it belongs. And because, in nontraditional education as well as anywhere else, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana).
     

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