Columbia State's Pellar pleads guilty to all nine counts of mail fraud

Well, I think any mill operator that doesn't offer a J.S.D. should receive an additional six months in prison. For discriminating against lawyers, you know!

 

ah, but how would shakespear feel?

(and for you grammar police i am digressing to eecumings style)

 

e e cummings, not eecumings

 

shakespeare, not shakespear

 

The laity doth capitalize too little, methinks.

 

The Bard used many different spellings himself, a common practice of the day. Methinks "shakspear" was one of them.

 

Well, I feel I owe Ronald Pellar a bit of thanks. I was one of the victims of the Columbia State University degree scam. I still have the degree and transcript as a reminder.

I have a long version and a short version of the story but the short version is that I was never really hurt by using a Columbia State University degree because I never really used it. But I did see the value of a degree and it did push me to earn a real degree.

And YES CCU is a real degree.

 

You have to admit, though, that it is interesting that you went from one unaccredited program to another (particularly given all of the many available accredited ones out there).




Tom Nixon

 

dinaro??

 

I agree it is interesting. When I started with all of this DL stuff, I only knew of California Pacific University and Thomas Edison State College. I saw an ad in USA Today (I think) for Columbia State University and requested information. They send me a large catalog with hundreds of schools and information about them. Of course, this book listed Columbia State and the best of all of them.

I started to contact schools and went with Columbia State because who could argue with a "28 day degree". I completed my Columbia State degree and put it on my resume. I even got an interview with IBM for their IT department. A couple of days later, the Tampa Bay news exposed a school that awarded a dog a degree in literature. Guess what school that was. I called IBM and cancelled the interview to save further humiliation. After Columbia State was exposed; I started to look at other schools that required some real work.

I found CCU listed in the catalog that Columbia State mailed me. other schools such as Penn State were listed so I new they were not all scams. I had my choices down to CCU and TESC. TESC seem too expensive and difficult to deal with. I went with CCU due to their price and all inclusive program.

I later fully understood the accreditation issues and, since I enrolled in the BS/MBA program at CCU, I completed the CCU program while working on my BS from COSC.

Did I do a lot of extra work...hell yes! Am I uniquely qualified to give opinions on degree mills, state approved schools, and RA school...I think so.

Now that is the whole ugly story.

 

The cost was an issue but it turned out that my COSC degree cost about the same as my CCU degree. My decision was not completely based on cost. When I enrolled in CCU, I did not fully understand the accreditation issues. See the above post for a deeper explaination.

 

Rich: The Bard used many different spellings himself, a common practice of the day. Methinks "shakspear" was one of them.

shakespeareauthorship.com lists about 70. Another site says, "Hazlitt's essay on Hamlet refers to "Shakespear" and Coleridge's lecture to "Shakspere". These are not mistakes. Shakespeare's name was spelled in many different ways during the Renaissance (including at the most extreme "Shagspere", "Shexpere" and "Shaxberd"), Shakespeare himself, in his surviving signatures, spelled his name "Shakspere" or "Shakspeare", and the modern fixed spelling ("Shakespeare") was not considered to be the only correct one until some time into the 20th Century."

 

Hi Randall: Thanks for the information on Pellar's racket, and many thanks for your refreshing candor. Compared to the persistent deception that all too many mill "clients" and all mill operators (past and present) employ, your posts come as a breath of fresh air. What gives you credibility to speak? Candor and changed behavior. I appreciate your contributions.

 

but the clergy, in this case the cumberland presbyterian clergy, have difficulty captalizing - one must ask the worth of it all!