MIGS ... be careful! Read this.

Why, yes, almost as if he had been reading degreeinfo and felt the need to respond. It's a shame that that need was not felt when you first requested information.

Note that I have said little bad about MIGS, but I have been cautiously optimistic. However, when they do things like this...


Tom Nixon

 

BTW, who is Mr. Feinburg? Is he a faculty member, an administrator, one of Sheila's employees, or what?

Tom Nixon

 

His title with MIGS is Director of Admissions. What his real role is the day-to-day spokesperson for MIGS. But the office where the MIGS phone rings also has other businesses and other phone lines. I don't know if Mr. Feinberg is involved with the other activities. He is the closest thing there is to a full-time employee for MIGS.

Rich Douglas, who got an answer from the other guys: 2. Not years, terms. C'mon November!

 

To directly copy from a ltter I received about continuing/finishing my PhD ...

Ric Feinberg
Assistant Dean of Admissions
The Center of University Studies
Monterrey Institute for Graduate Studies
Phone: 1-800-459-1738
Fax: 1-954-742-3306
Earn your degree online! www.degree.com

OK?




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Peter French
MEd MAcc(UNE)CMA
Melbourne, Australia
[email protected]

 

I think Mr. Feinberg was contacted by someone here. (Which is fine). He states that he didn't get back to me because he was on vacation with his family and apparently his assistant couldn't handle this.

 

Ric Feinberg must be doing a lot better job in Admissions than he is as spokesperson. When I spoke to Ric a few months ago, he told me his title was Assistant Director of Admissions. If he is now Director, I must assume he received a promotion (undoubtedly, for years of excellent service ).

I was trying to contact el MIGS in Florida, and after more than fifty calls answered only by an answering machine, I finally left a message. Ric promptly called me backed three days later. In his defense, I can only surmise that he was reticent to call because he knew who I was (as evidenced by his attitude). My inquiries were pleasant, civil; I simply wanted to know who owned MIGS, and what was the nature of the contract they had with the CEU (I had already spoken to various individuals at CEU).

I am being kind when I characterize his responses as defensive, evasive and rude (in that he continually insulted my intelligence). Despite evidence to the contrary, and without actually saying so, he tried to convince me that MIGS was owned by the CEU.

“Are you familiar with the Wharton Business School?” he asked me. “It is part of the University of Pennsylvania. Similarly MIGS is part of the CEU.”

When I asked if he telling me that MIGS was solely owned by the CEU as Wharton was (or could be described to be) by the University of Pennsylvania, he backpedaled and stated, that he wasn’t saying that el MIGS was owned by the CEU, only that the relationship was similarly to that of Wharton’s, and that MIGS was the CEU. I asked him repeatedly if he meant that MIGS was owned by the CEU, and he repeatedly answered that he did not know what I meant, but MIGS was the CEU.

I then asked him that surely he wasn’t comparing MIGS to Wharton (arguably the best business school in the country). Without taking a breath he had the chutzpah to say, “Did I say Wharton? I meant, Walden, Walden University. You are familiar with them, right?” I did not waste my time asking him what Walden had to do with the University of Pennsylvania.

Instead, I simply asked if Degree.com owned MIGS. He said no (public records filed with the state of Florida indicate otherwise). Ric stated that degree.com was only the url to MIGS’s Web site, and that he wasn’t aware of a company, partnership or other legal entity by that name. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that caller ID indicated that the telephone line he was calling me from was registered to a business by the name of Degree.com.

Tired of the evasion and subterfuge, I asked Ric point blank, “Well, who is it, exactly, that you work for? What name appears at the top of your paycheck?” His answer?

Unbelievably, he said, “I don’t know.” Hopefully, by now, he has figured it out.


Gus Sainz

 

Oh please, MIGS is not a victim here. Extremely savvy operators (including two attorneys) own MIGS. MIGS is not a passive observer “letting these things happen.” MIGS is the perpetrator.

Gus Sainz

 

Get over it - does it directly affect you, or just give you an excuse to get stuck into them?

I don't accept your veiled accusations as an explanation. It is their problem, they will sort it out. They have attended to the matter as it currently affects a candidate/student. Dr Linda Yates is an honourable person, and has been my mentor, so let her do her job. From now on it is an internal matter for them, not for any of us.

Do you never mess anything up? If you don't like MIGS, no-one is trying to force you to accept them. I have experienced problems but then I was the first candidate and things were very much in a development stage. I knew that and took the risk. I didn't like it and pulled out. Now I have reconsidered and this with 2 Australian PhD candidatures still open to me on full scholarship - Business Administration and Education - have decided to open my files again. I have had my questions answered and will finish it with them.



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Peter French
MEd MAcc(UNE)CMA
Melbourne, Australia
[email protected]

 

Originally posted by Peter French:
Get over it - does it directly affect you, or just give you an excuse to get stuck into them?

What does "stuck into them" mean, Peter? Do you think Gus may go from jabs to stabs? Are you "stuck into" Gus now?

Do you never mess anything up?

Besides having a Levicoff-like tendency to be correct, Gus rarely ends a sentence in a preposition.

If you don't like MIGS, no-one is trying to force you to accept them.

Actually, Peter, "acceptability" in one form or another has been an issue in the MIGS discussions/debates.

I have experienced problems but then I was the first candidate and things were very much in a development stage. I knew that and took the risk. I didn't like it and pulled out. Now I have reconsidered and this with 2 Australian PhD candidatures still open to me on full scholarship - Business Administration and Education - have decided to open my files again. I have had my questions answered and will finish it with them.

Wow. I hope you keep us posted.

 

Gus, you were holding out on us BIG time! I haven't laughed so hard in days.

Thanks,
Bill

 

Tom Nixon asks: BTW, who is Mr. Feinburg? Is he a faculty member, an administrator, one of Sheila's employees, or what?

Señor Feinburg, el rey de los profesores de Macarena?

 

Thanks for the reminder (and LOL), time for my free refresher course. Darn I just don't seem to be able to remember those tricky moves unless I practise every week. This is what distance learning is truly all about!
http://www.danzig.com/macarena

 

A "school" that was started up by a get-rich-quick-scheme peddler and degree mill graduate. The "school" just happens to not be accepting students because it legally can't. Yet, it has an admissions officer that is talking to potential students. Only to experiment and to get more practice for when the school really opens, no doubt? Are you paying practice money or real money?

Right, I'm sure that all the best schools in the world started that way. Where did I get the silly notion that real schools are typically started up by educators. Just one of those irrational thoughts I had whose only purpose is to upset Peter, I suppose.