Quote:O. DR. GEORGE GOLLIN
Defendant Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, Champaign, purports to be a higher education expert in "diploma mills" and fraudulent colleges and universities. He also claims to be a consultant to the Republic of Liberia.

Quote:179. Dr. George Gollin has numerous links on the Internet about SLSOM being a "fake" school and a "diploma mill". Many of his postings are fantastic, speculative, and imaginary. One MS Power Point online presentation states that, "St. Luke is a diploma mill."; "U.S. State Dept. official says it's fake"; "Liberia says it's illegal"; "A Ghanaian official said it's bogus"; "It's really run by a small group of Americans"; "Dr. Dolphin is an owner of Bio-Life Laboratorie"?; "Dr. David Karam and Steve Arnett are owners of SLSOM"; and "St. Luke School of Medicine: www.stluke.edu an entirely fake medical school run from TX, KY, CA."

180. Gollin stated in a recent interview that he intends to put SLSOM out of business. Gollin recently presented a 91-page document to the Ghana National Accreditation Board full of false, libelous, and slanderous statements about Dr. Dolphin, Dr. Dolphin's wife, Susanna Mitchell, and SLSOM. The document was submitted to the Ghana Court of Appeals by the National Accreditation Board to appeal a judgment in favor of St. Luke School of Medicine-Ghana (not the same institution as St. Luke School of Medicine-Liberia).

181. The Ghana National Accreditation Board submitted Gollin's document to cast doubt on the credibility of Dr. Dolphin and SLSOM because SLSOM-Ghana won accreditation in Ghana through a decision of the Ghana High Court in October 2009. In Gollin's document, he claims that Dr. Dolphin is a fraudulent criminal, despite the fact that he was never arrested in Liberia or sued for fraud by anyone from Liberia, or anywhere else in the world including the United States before, during, or after SLSO's crisis in Liberia in 2005. Gollin accused Dr. Dolphin of being a fraud. Furthermore, he accused Dr. Dolphin's wife of embezzlement without any proof, only naked assertions that cause her name and reputation to be publicly disparaged in Ghana.

182. The University of Illinois Urbana is complicit in its support of George Gollin, who uses University of Illinois letterhead and insignia to lend credibility to his misinformation. The University of Illinois has permitted Gollin to use its computers and servers in Gollin's campaign against SLSOM. Gollin has slandered and libeled SLSOM in more than two dozen speaking engagements, as listed on his University of Illinois website: http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/ . Gollin's University of Illinois website [has] seven direct links full of false and misleading information about SLSOM.

Quote:197....Dr. George Gollin and the University of Illinois have and continue to disparage SLSOM and its services, students, diplomas and degrees based on information gleaned solely from the aforementioned sources.

Herbert Spencer Wrote:This is the very thing UI feared when they ordered Gollin to close his defamatory website several years ago. This is the sort of thing against which the State of Oregon sought to protect itself when they ordered Gay Al to take remedial courses in defamation law.

Herbert Spencer Wrote:Hopefully somebody at UIUC will now realize that they are employing a lawsuit magnet and an embarrassment to higher education and take appropriate action.

Quote:Wednesday, March 17, 2010

By ELIZABETH BANICKI

LOS ANGELES (CN) - Corrupt Liberian officials with ties to rebels defamed a Liberian medical school, calling it a "diploma mill," when its founder refused to pay bribes, Dr. Jerroll Dolphin claims in a federal class action. Dolphin established the St. Luke School of Medicine in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1998.

In 2005, after the school had relocated because of civil war, "organized conspirators and government officials, who were angered because St. Luke School of Medicine refused to pay bribes, attacked SLSOM in the media and on the Internet," according to the 66-page complaint. The medical school and Dr. Robert Farmer are also named plaintiffs.

Defendant Mohammed Sheriff, head of the J.R. Kennedy hospital in Monrovia, "asked for a bribe of $6,000 USD a month to make SLSOM a 'credible' institution in Liberia," according to the complaint. Dolphin says he refused to pay.

Sheriff, who allegedly has ties to rebels and a reputation of being "very ruthless" and "untrustworthy," intimidated the local press into defaming Dolphin and his school by threatening to have their press passes revoked, Dolphin says.

It was a frightening threat, as "The unemployment rate of Liberia at that time was approximately 80 to 85 percent," according to the complaint.

Dolphin says at least one other government official also demanded bribes. When he refused to pay, the school was subsequently denounced as a fraud and the diplomas of graduates were no longer accredited, he says.

Among the attacks, Dolphin says, was a radio broadcast by a man "who called himself Dr. Kpoto" stating that the school was "giving hundreds of 'fake' degrees to Indians from the streets who came to Liberia to register as doctors."

That report claimed that the school was "taking thousands of U.S. dollars for these fake degrees."

Dolphin says his school never issued hundreds of degrees and that some students did not pay tuition at all.

"During the first eight years of SLSOM's existence, 1998 through 2006, SLSOM graduated 36 doctors," the complaint states. "This does not fit the definition of a 'diploma mill.'"

Dolphin says that though some campus areas may have needed small repairs, he had plenty of books, computers, microscopes and other equipment needed to support a student body.

Dr. Benson Barh, Sheriff and others bent on ruining Dolphin's reputation held several press conferences and "kangaroo court" hearings featuring a "list of 'haters' with prepared statements, with similar statements, almost word-for-word, coming forth to speak against SLSOM," according to the complaint.

Dolphin says that his passport was taken from him several and he was unlawfully held and forced to stay in Liberia when he wanted to fly to Ghana to visit his wife. When he did travel to Ghana or Los Angeles, Liberian press reported that he had "fled Liberia for fear of prosecution" and was "thought to be in hiding," Dolphin says.

By April 2005, the school had been removed from the International Medical Education Directory, at the request of Dr. Isaac Roland, director general of Liberia's National Commission on Higher Education, according to the complaint. Its graduates are not allowed to take the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam.

Defendants include the Pennsylvania-based Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, the Foundation for Advancement of International Education and Research, and University of Illinois professor Dr. George Gollin, an expert on "diploma mills."

Dolphin seeks damages for trade libel, false imprisonment, negligence, violations of due process and equal protection, conversion, conspiracy to commit civil rights violations, emotional distress and loss of consortium.

He is represented by Thaddeus Culpepper of Pasadena.

Yancy Derringer Wrote:I'm thinking young Richard Roundtree as Dr. Dolphin ("Who is the man who brings doctors to a ravaged land? Dolphin! Right on! That dude Dolphin is a healin' mother...hush yo' mouth!).

ukqualified2 Wrote:Liberian Bribes at the MOE Office
by ukqualified2 on Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:53 am

I tried to tell ye gentlemen that there are things a brewin in the ole academic hearsay arena, but ye wouldn't listen. I couldn't mention the specifics within my last post, but there are more lawsuits at the class action level than just this one. Ask around, and I'll just bet that someone you know has received some strange phone calls and / or e-mails that may be a bit of a give-a-way.

A group of individuals have been collecting every post George Gollin has ever made in his life. They even had a copy of the letter Gollin sent out requesting information for his soon to be "Best Seller" regarding St. Regis. In fact, there is someone else also doing a book, and this one is regarding our hero, none other than George Gollin himself. This book contains everyone that George Gollin has ever blasted, everyone he has ever worked with, with noted dirt on them as well. I hear there is even one chapter dedicated to Gollin and the Military personnel he tried to ruin, even with a letter from the old chap himself to the Military. A big effort is being made to connect The UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS as the main funder and pusher of George Gollin. From what I hear, they have some pretty good info.

I mentioned there were investigators involved, and this Johan shot that down, so stay tuned, and you will gradually see things unravel. They are going after others as well...and if all goes right, some of these ACADEMICIANS may be writing from behind some US Bars?

ukqualified2 Wrote:...there are more lawsuits at the class action level than just this one. ...so stay tuned, and you will gradually see things unravel.