California Pacificatory University

https://californiapacificatory.ac/

This is a new one to me, and a novel concept; you have to join some organization (no doubt owned by the school) in order to enroll in their programs. "Interim Accreditation" from Accreditation Service for International Colleges (ASIC).

Their address is a storefront mailbox service in San Diego, CA.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.8101314,-117.1407692,3a,75y,334.97h,89.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEfdvHh7Q1hVMLYT25Mky2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

 

They may be appealing to exemptions under the California Education Code; section 94874. You can see others doing that as well; https://ecc.education/accreditation/.

 

Not news. The school originally usurped the name "California Pacific University" and we all thought maybe that once famous, now long-shuttered school had somehow been revived. It hadn't. I guess they have um, "found it necessary" to re-name. The school and the professional association are both owned by Dr. Ehab el Shamy. Lots of history in these 2023 posts. Done and dusted with this "New CPU" outfit long ago.

https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/california-pacific-university.48917/page-5#post-585105

 

Their website states: California Pacificatory University is entirely unrelated to California Pacific University and maintains no affiliation or connection with it whatsoever. California Pacific University, founded in 1976 and subsequently closed in 2016, has no association with California Pacificatory University.

 

Obviously, they've either been required to change their original name and make this disclosure, or found it necessary, when they discovered that the name "California Pacific University" had been previously used. Thanks, tadj.

 

Dr. Ehab el Shamy is also associated with this university, which grants a Doctorate in Islamic Studies: https://aituedu.org/faculty-and-management-staff/.

 

This person has also been establishing various connections with accredited universities; https://uol.edu.pk/uol-american-international-theism-university-are-off-to-a-great-start/

 

Indeed. And others. I believe the thread cited at the end of this post shows him as CEO of Breyer State University and its Theological counterpart, with no meaningful US accreditation, (religious exemption) in Florida.

Great. Way to go. Some relevant info on Breyer State & related Florida religious entities - including an observed Axact similarity. here.
https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/breyer-state-university.16836/page-3

This whole thread has unraveled into quite a nasty quagmire. Not signing up, for sure.

 

I'll just quote myself then:

"By the way, Ehab El Shamy, Breyer State's Chief Executive Officer has recently launched the American International Theology University, https://aituedu.org/board-members/, not too long ago included in ASIC's international directory, candidacy accreditation. Dr El Shamy is/was Charisma University's Senior Vice President for International Programs"

The CPU website is conveniently hosted on the same German server as aituedu.org and breyerstate.com. Imagine that.

 

You'll find Dr El Shamy here too: https://charteredworldlearned.org/international-grand-board-of-directors/

Lots of interesting people around. His Excellency Sir Bashiru Aremu is an Adam Smith University graduate, more recently at West Coast University Panama and a whole swat of other lovely schools. It shouldn't come as a surprise then that Sarfraz Lloyd is also onboard, the founder of West Coast Institute of Management and Technology, Perth, later West Coast University Panama, but at the very beginning a rather shady school in Karachi, Pakistan. Axact got rid of that competitor.

There's also Christopher Oyat, a St Clements University bloke, and Mohamed G Kafafy, American Association for Higher Education and Accreditation, The University of America, Charisma University etc and Israel Kofi Nyarko, a graduate of Atlantic International University, West Coast University and Universidad San Juan de la Cruz in Costa Rica. The latter is quite an achievement.

And then there are messiers Pilley and McIvor too. A most remarkable society of wisdom and learning.

 

His Excellency Sir Bashiru Aremu
Sarfraz Lloyd
Christopher Oyat,
Mohamed G Kafafy,
Israel Kofi Nyarko,
messiers Pilley and McIvor too.
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"It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in..." (Piano Man - Apologies to Billy Joel)

 

'Something appealing, something appalling...
Something for everyone - our comedy tonight."

(A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) - Apologies to the late Zero Mostel.

 

A cursory look at this implies that schools who cater to members of specific organizations can become exempt from....what? Approval? The newly applied accreditation requirement? What? I'm not going to explore further because I find it all trivial, but what I see makes these things seem rather dubious.

 

I'll just ignore CPU history in this post and only just talk about college names. I think California Pacific University is a fine name for a college. I think California Pacificatory University is a stupid name for a college. Heck making my already formed opinion stronger that it is a stupid name, Google chrome thinks that pacificatory is misspelled and wants to change it to pacificator.

 

Agreed. Both. They started out with the fine name - and were probably told to change it because it had been used (and likely registered). So they came up with the stupid name. "Stupid is as stupid does, Sir." (Tom Hanks, as Forrest Gump.)

I thought of California Porfessional University - but that's in use, too.

 

Correction: I thought of California Professional University - and I can't find a school of that name. Might have done OK. I did find a reference (one) to such a school on a resume. My take: the person is genuine - has seriously good qualifications in mental health - (several) and is from overseas. Might have been accidental confusion with California School of Professional Psychology.

Yep - they should have got an outsider to fix it. Maybe me.

 

Claiming an abandoned name in California might not be a simple matter. California Coast University tried to do this when it was founded in '75 (IIRC). Founded as California Western University, it grabbed that name when United States International University (now part of Alliant International University) abandoned it. But the law school was split off and remained California Western School of Law. I can't confirm my suspicions, but I wouldn't be surprised if a school filled with attorneys found a way to make the "new" CWU change its name. Anyway, it was right at that time that the newly christened CCU received California Approval (hard to get back then) for all of its programs, the first DL school in California to do that. It offered degrees at all levels in Education, Psychology, Business, and Computer Science/IT, except a Bachelor's in education. (Again, IIRC.)

I wonder if CPU's original owner's daughter still has legal rights to the name?

 

"Pacificatory". Is that even a word?

 

Hmmm. Me too. But IIRC the school was sold, sometime after the Founder's death. The new owner added some religious courses - in what looked like preparation to try for religious exemption, rather than accreditation. California's "accredit or die" dates were approaching. Then the school failed to file some documents with the BPPE, was assessed a fine of $5,000 IIRC and then it closed.

Doesn't the name - along with the school that bears it - go to the new owner, unless otherwise specified?

 

No.