Who the hell do these people think they are?

[Little Arminius]

This thread is unbelievable. Some know-nothing, Gin Ichimaru (name of a Japanese cartoon character of questionable sexuality), started stirring the shit by reporting that accredited Grand Canyon University may accept some old Warren National University transfer credits. He even provided the contact name at GCU.

Long-time degreeinfo poster Ian Anderson then pointed out that GCU already had a published policy that prohibited such a transfer and that accepting such credits could cause problems with their accreditor (North Central Association).

Heiks and Kizmet then jumped in with irrelevancies. Then a GCU rep, Larry Biffin, jumped in and said that anyone interested in transferring from WNU should contact him directly. At this point, Chip responded by stating that someone should make a report to the North Central Association. Tailpipe Chip was clearly troubled that an RA school would even consider awarding transfer credit to a student coming from an unaccredited school. He then intimated that there may have been some impropriety involved in such an agreement between GCU and WNU before making an anti-Christian slur.

Ian Anderson then tried to elicit some info from Biffin before that loser Huffman posted his 2 cents worth. The outrageous thread came to a (temporary, I'm sure) close with Kizmet again posting one of the stupid sayings she is becoming infamous for.

outrageous degreeinfo thread

Why is this outrageous and why do I care? In many ways I don't. However, if someone made the bad choice to enroll with WNU, realized it was a mistake and is now looking elsewhere, isn't it the right thing to do to help them find better educational alternatives? The Gang always touted the virtues of the RA Gold Standard; GCU is RA so what is the problem?

The truth is that weirdos like enema salesman Chip, online stalker Huffman and Kizmet don't care about the transfer students at all. They want to ridicule and punish those who made bad school choices for whatever reason. They don't want to permit these people to move on with their academic lives, at least not until they have extracted their pound of flesh.

I will point out that you don't see Gollin, Sainz, Jack Tracey, etc. stooping to this level of pettiness. Those guys just want the pat on the back and the acknowledgement that they are right and everyone else in the world is wrong. It is all about their egos. This is one big difference between DI and DD at present. It brings into question Ted Heiks motivation for jumping ship from DD to DI.

[Fort Bragg]

What's with these assholes? WNU was a candidate for accreditation and a large number of schools accept transfers from candidates. To become a candidate a school must jump through a lot of hoops and not found wanting.

[ham]

Heiks and Kizmet then jumped in with irrelevancies. Then a GCU rep, Larry Biffin, jumped in and said that anyone interested in transferring from WNU should contact him directly. At this point, Chip responded by stating that someone should make a report to the North Central Association. Tailpipe Chip was clearly troubled that an RA school would even consider awarding transfer credit to a student coming from an unaccredited school. He then intimated that there may have been some impropriety involved in such an agreement between GCU and WNU before making an anti-Christian slur.

First of all, while there may (or may not) be 'generally accepted guidelines' when it comes to RA transfer credit, each university is solely responsible for saying what it will (or will not) accept. Even the myth that "all RA schools accept all RA credits" has been proven false in a number of occasions.

Perhaps somebody should make a formal report with the North Central Association.

I can't imagine that they would be excited about a regionally accredited school granting transfer credits from what is pretty clearly at this point a mill.

Sure, butt doctor!
Send your complain in on "boyfunk" official letterhead...

[Martin Eisenstadt]

The truth is that weirdos like enema salesman Chip, online stalker Huffman and Kizmet don't care about the transfer students at all. They want to ridicule and punish those who made bad school choices for whatever reason. They don't want to permit these people to move on with their academic lives, at least not until they have extracted their pound of flesh.

True consumer advocates would be happy that WNU students landed on their feet after the rug was pulled out from under them.  As you said, the cartel shills want to punish people for not patronizing government approved vendors.

I will point out that you don't see Gollin, Sainz, Jack Tracey, etc. stooping to this level of pettiness.

They probably are still busy stalking SRU diploma holders.  Or, like most things, they are just oblivious.

[Little Arminius]

The truth is that weirdos like enema salesman Chip, online stalker Huffman and Kizmet don't care about the transfer students at all. They want to ridicule and punish those who made bad school choices for whatever reason. They don't want to permit these people to move on with their academic lives, at least not until they have extracted their pound of flesh.

True consumer advocates would be happy that WNU students landed on their feet after the rug was pulled out from under them.  As you said, the cartel shills want to punish people for not patronizing government approved vendors.

I will point out that you don't see Gollin, Sainz, Jack Tracey, etc. stooping to this level of pettiness.

They probably are still busy stalking SRU diploma holders.  Or, like most things, they are just oblivious.

... or perhaps they are looking for the next windmill, ahhh, I mean unaccredited school, to do a hatchet job on.

The thing about the DD crowd is that once the holder of an unaccredited degree throws in the towel, like Prof. Len Van Der Walt, they usually move on to someone else to stalk and ridicule. No so with that deviate Chip. clueless Kizmet, cyberstalker Bill Huffman, et al.

[yoda_igorovich]

It brings into question Ted Heiks motivation for jumping ship from DD to DI.

What was his motivation?

[Little Arminius]

It brings into question Ted Heiks motivation for jumping ship from DD to DI.

What was his motivation?

Resentment and loathing of Levicoff seems to be a good starting point. I can't say that I blame him, though. Ted is a pretty good guy that has always tried to be helpful by providing links but usually ends up getting sand kicked in his face by one of the bullies. I once suggested that he would make a productive member at DL Truth but he didn't want to make the move for fear of pissing "Sensei" Abner off.

Dr. Blackbird, this forum degenerated into a childish fight because you decided to use a very slangish terminology ("schizo") which would generally be used by some trash-talking teen-ager who has no idea what he is talking about rather than acting like an educated professional and using complete words (like "schizophrenia" or "schizoaffective disorder") and explaining to us little people, based on official DSM-IV definitions, what those big scary words mean and how said diagnosis applies to the offending website. What I cannot accept is an educated professional laughing about, and making fun of, those that his very profession is allegedly attempting to help. Your childish threads which you have posted of late remind me of nothing quite so much as the time that the great Lord Dr. Levicoff, a Union PhD in Religion & Law who did some writing upon the subject of the law and Christian counseling, informed us that "frequent flyer" is mental health professional's "shop lingo" for one who makes frequent trips to psych ward (and then proceeded to laugh about it). I would expect something like that from Lord Levicoff. But I would have expected better from you. Today, one of my heroes has fallen. But there was actually a time when I had considered you to be one of the gods of distance learning. No more.

DI thread

[ham]

I once suggested that he would make a productive member at DL Truth but he didn't want to make the move for fear of pissing "Sensei" Abner off.

Really?
Schoolyard bully dynamics online?
PFFT!
How sad can anyone's life be(come)?

Today, one of my heroes has fallen. But there was actually a time when I had considered you to be one of the gods of distance learning. No more.

What's that?
The rant of a groupie who discovered Elton John is gay?

[yoda_igorovich]

It brings into question Ted Heiks motivation for jumping ship from DD to DI.

If you look at Ted Heiks' posting history over at DI, you'll see that he never left; he kept posting right through the great secession winter of 2006 and consequently, he never "jumped ship" from DD to DI.

[D00bie]

Yes, really, who do they think they are. Chip is a professional pornagrapher that caters to clientele that are interested in sex with young boys and is a college drop out. Kizmet a total nobody that lives on a remote farm.

The funnier part is that these nobodies on many levels think they know more than accreditors and school administrators and are transfer policy managers for the said schools. What a couple of Class-A, genuine assholes with grossly inflated egos. I would also say Kizmet is one ugly woman too, which I doubt surprises anyone here. Kizmet's contribution to distance education is poorly moderating a side business to a professional pornagrapher. Yay her.