Canada pacific Western University& International Institute of Advanced Studies.

I was told that there is a "Canada Pacific Western University" which offers the DBA based on life experience,a review of one's portfolio and a "brief" dissertation. Question: Is this school afiliated or the same as Pacific Western University in Hawaii? I searched John Bear's book and only found the later.

In terms of the International Institute of Advanced Studies, is this school still in existence and connected with Greenwich University?

I am aware of the unaccredited status of these schools but would like to know if possession of both degrees combined with a very atrong academic portfolio would allow one to function as a professor in a regionally accredited graduate school (assuming the individual does not possess a masters degree).

 

It is extremely unlikely that a degree from any of the above schools will get you a teaching position at any RA school, particularly if you do not have an RA master's degree. Although even with the MA, none of the above will get you where you want to be.


Tom Nixon

 

Tom, thanks for your reply. The scenario I presented related to an actual situation not my future career goal. I would appreciate if you could respond to the other questions posed regarding the "Canadian Pacific Western University" and the International Institute of Advance Studies. Where do they stand in the hierarchy of unaccredited schools?

 

Well, here's something about Canada Pacific Western University.

... Dr. Pearson holds the PhD from the International Institute for Advanced Studies
and a DBA from Canada Pacific Western University. Dr Pearson has served in ... www.capellauniversity.edu/prgms/bus/fac/pea_n.cfm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages

 

Thanks for your reply. However, I would appreciate any additional specific information regarding the current status of these two schools as indicated in my postings listed above. By the way, are you attending the school you noted in your posting?

Have a good day.

 

You must certainly be talking about Norman Pearson. I am very concerned about this individual’s educational credentials, as I am a student at Capella myself.

There is absolutely no reference anywhere to the existence of a real "Canada Pacific Western University". There is the CA approved, unaccredited PWU where thirty credits and $5000 will get you a PhD. Don't want to go through that mess of writing a dissertation, don't worry as they say you can substitute articles you have written instead.

The International Institute for Advanced Research changed its name to Greenwich University, and we know what happened to it.

His bio says that he "served for seven years as Chair of Administration/Management at Walden University and an additional four years as faculty". Also that he "served five years as a member of the International Board of Governors for the California University of Advanced Studies". This school does not seem to exist any longer. In a google search it only turns up on other, less than remarkable, resumes.

 

Paul, is there any way that I can speak with you privately regarding this matter. Thanks.

 

It is alarming to see degrees and experience from less-than-wonderful schools in faculty bios.

A Google search turned up a listing for Pearson in a 1998 directory of Canadian futurists -- http://policyresearch.schoolnet.ca/keydocs/futur/pearson-e.htm -- among his experience, "Professor of 21st Century Studies, Greenleaf University, St. Louis, USA, 1996."

Greenleaf University was founded in 1989 as the Institute for Professional Studies. Curently it's straightforward about not being accredited, but I believe that it did claim accreditation from the nonwonderful WAUC in the past. Pearson is not currently listed among Greenleaf faculty/staff/board -- http://www.greenleaf.edu/aboutgu.html

He *is* listed among faculty on the Geocities (free) website for the "School of Genealogy, Heraldry, and Documentary Sciences" -- http://www.geocities.com/chivalric2/ASGHDS/faculty.html and listed as Dean of Faculty of the "Franklin School for Gifted Students" -- http://www.gifted-children.net/administration.html

And he's also listed as Dean of the College of Business & Political Studies for Greenwich University -- http://greenwich.edu/guleafac1.htm

Carl Lindgren, Dean of Greenwich's College of Arts and Humanities, is also with the School of Genealogy etc. and the Franklin School.

 

Ooooooops. For years the Pacific Western in Canada was listed in Bears' Guide. Somehow it fell out of the 14th edition -- and indeed out of our data base entirely. It had no connection whatsoever with the two schools of that name still operating from California.

Dr. Pearson has chosen to refer to it as "Canada Pacific Western" to separate it from the California/Hawaii one.

Pearson did his doctoral work through the International Institute for Advanced Studies when it was an unaccredited state-licensed school in Clayton, Missouri. In 1990, when Greenwich was established, IIAS became a part of Greenwich.

One of the reasons I agreed to help save IIAS when its founder, Alexander Niven, became very ill in the late 1980s, was their decent track record of having graduates (people like Norman Pearson) in responsible teaching positions. Many of those were in those positions before doing the IIAS degree.

At the Capella summer residential session last July, at which I was one of the keynote speakers, I met Dr. Pearson for the first time. He seemed to have the respect of both students and staff, but that is an informal observation, and of course I am not privy to details.

John Bear

 

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The feedback I have received from Capella students is a positive one and one that indicates he is quite knowledgeable and capable. My concerns are for the obvious reasons: unaccredited schools for both his terminal degrees. I am not intending to slight Mr. Pearson’s abilities or expertise in his field.

 

Dr. Bear, was the Canadian Pacific Western University accredited by any legitimate accrediting agencies while in existence? What became of this school?

 

Sam,

No, I do not attend CPWU.

CFr

 

I was referring to Capella U not CPWU.

 

Kristin, thanks for your interesting research. Are you aware if Canada Pacific Western University is still in existence and whether it is or was accredited by the appropriate accrediting agency in Canada or anywhere other than Canada? Thanks.

 

To the best of my knowledge the Pacific Western University in Canada never had any formal recognition.

On a related matter, I was very surprised to see the reference here to Pearson's affiliation with California University for Advanced Studies. It was a California-authorized school owned on the record by George Ryan, a former undegreed employee of Columbia Pacific, and privately by the principal owner of Columbia Pacific. CUAS had its state authorization suddenly revoked. Ryan got permission from the state to let currently-enrolled students finish their degrees in one year. He collected some sizeable "completion fees" from quite a few students, closed down, and took the money and ran. Neither he nor the money ever turned up, and all those students were left without money or a degree.

This is not a school one would normally wish to claim an affiliation with.

 

Dr. Bear, it appears that the California Pacific Western university was under the aegis of some unidentified church group in the 1980s but subsequently changed its name.
It still may be in existence under a new name. However, as you noted it never sought or acquired any form of accreditation.

 

You probably mean "Canada" Pacific Western University. I only make the distinction as there is a Pacific Western University in California, too.

 

Thanks for the correction Paul. I meant Canada not California.

 

Relating to the Franklin School, it was a Mississippi state program designed for exceptional high school students within the state. The program only lasted one year. It was under a private grant and was not refunded. At the time I possessed my "AAA" state certification.

Although I initially applied as an instructor/dean of Greenwich University I soon discovered that the school had lost any 'recognition' it may had possessed. I originally defended the school but resigned shortly thereafter. The school had several good possibilities but because of poor management, some unaccredited faculty and lack of professionalism the school soon folded.

It was thought that with my interest/background in metagogics (history of education), curriculum and instruction and history that I could aid the school in its development. I could not. Relating to metagogoics - During the early 1980s quite a number of questions arose amongst certain members of the then Dept of History of Education at UNISA regarding the status, field of study and, in particular, the methodologies employed in History of Education. A few years earlier something similar happened at the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE). In an attempt to "revitalize" the History of Education, UP advocated a "new" type of History of Education called "Wordingsgeskiedenis" (this Afrikaans word can possibly be translated as the "History of Becoming") whereas UPE advocated "Temporaliteitspedagogiek" (possibly to be translated as "Pedagogics of Temporality"). Each regarded their methodology as something different from existing research methodologies and their focus as unique. At the University of South Africa a number of colleagues then started propagating yet another "new" type of History of Education, referred to as Metagogics. According to De Jager, DK, Coetzee, JH & Bisschoff, TC. 1983. Metagogics. Methodology and Application. HAUM; Pretoria]: "The name, Metagogics, indicates the intention that an all-inclusive view is striven for. Meta pertains to change always taking place and emphasis will be placed on this aspect in particular. The second half of the name, agogics, emphasizes the guidance that one human being offers to another during every phase of life." Therefore one could say the Metagogics refers to the "pedagogics of change" keeping in mind that, according to advocates of Metagogics pedagogics focuses on children only - agogics, according to them, includes all human beings, from the cradle to the elderly. Advocates of Metagogics preferred to refer to "historical educationists" as "metagogicians".

Carl--

BAE - University of Mississippi - 1972
MEd - University of Mississippi - 1977
SEd - University of Mississippi (30 hours above a MEd)
FCP - College of Preceptors (Teachers) (Essex) - 1993 - 2] “Under the terms of its Royal Charter of 1849 the College is empowered to provide professional qualifications for teachers in the UK and overseas. The status of the qualifications awarded under the terms of this charter is the same as that of qualifications awarded by British universities, particularly its associateship, licentiate and master's level fellowship

DEd (UNISA) - 1999