how a university is born on a south pacific island https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/long-distance-learning-building-a-university-on-a-south-pacific-island
Dr. Leeman posted here occasionally, until around 2003. Sample: http://www.degreeinfo.com/general-distance-learning-discussions/8179-what-cheapest-non-resident-phd.html J.
Dr. Leeman has been associated with several schools over his career, including Queen of Sheba University, discussed below. The thread says something about that school's closing. http://www.degreeinfo.com/accreditation-discussions-ra-detc-state-approval-unaccredited-schools/41927-queen-sheba-university-comes-goes.html An old quote from Dr. Bear, pinched from another forum: "Bernard Leeman has been involved with quite a few sincere (I have always thought) if quirky institutions over many years, from Azania University in South Africa to something in Papua New Guinea to something in Ethiopia to Sheba." J.
As his ancestry is that of a minority Siberian society, I find what Dr. Leeman says is very cogent - about the identity-smashing (and other wrongs) that have commonly been inflicted (and still are, in many places) not only upon many circumpolar peoples, but on indigenous populations in other places - including where I live. The indigenous peoples of Siberia have been of particular interest to me, for a long time. J.