Wyoming licenses "school" whose owner sells fake MD's at his other "school"

galanga · Mar 15, 2005

This one is amazing. See the story Tie to illegal degrees doesn't block Wyo. school licensing by Mead Gruver (Associated Press) in thre Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune, March 11, 2005.

Wyoming licensed a Laramie-based online school last year even as its owner helped direct a Hawaii online school that was offering illegal medical degrees and was later shut down by a judge.

The owner of American Central University, Adalat Khan, was the Malaysian regional director for American University of Hawaii, a fact that Wyoming education officials concede they overlooked in the documents Khan provided on his background.

As a result, nearly eight months into an ultimately successful lawsuit filed by Hawaii's Office of Consumer Protection to get American University of Hawaii shut down, the Wyoming officials offered no objection when the Wyoming Board of Education unanimously licensed American Central in April.

And American Central has been an Education Department headache ever since.

For not having even one qualified instructor in Wyoming, the agency prepared last fall to pull the school's license -- only to have the process bog down while state attorneys deliberate how to do that.

"The whole thing is in legal turmoil," said Phil Kautz, the department's private school licensing manager, of American Central's status now.

Khan and an employee of the school in Laramie, Marcia Edwards, declined to comment.

Khan runs a school in Perak, Malaysia, called the Mina Management Institute. For a time, American Central and American University of Hawaii were listed next to each other on the Mina Management Institute Web site as "distinguished partners" of the institute.

Hawaii's Office of Consumer Protection sued American University of Hawaii in August 2003, alleging it illegally offered medical degrees. A judge ordered the school shut down in January.

Because Wyoming requires private schools to disclose whether any of their officials has ever had a license suspended, revoked or not renewed, Education Department officials say Khan may have been required to tell them he worked for American University of Hawaii.

Khan was certainly required to open up about his work with American University of Hawaii after the judge closed the school in January, according to Fred Hansen, the department's finance director and another of its private school licensing officials.

"He should have disclosed," he said.

But while Khan didn't mention American University of Hawaii in the department's licensing forms, he did say he was the school's Malaysian regional director in the third sentence of a career summary he provided to the department.

"I'm not sure we caught that sentence," Hansen said...
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...and there's more. It is astonishing.

TONY YAP · Mar 18, 2005

SENATOR JOE TANAKA

Hi Galanga,
Wasnt Senator Joe Tanaka of the Senate of Hawaii the owner of the American University of Hawii. When did the Malaysian entity took over. Please update

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