dr.JOHN BEAR backing up questionable ICHM?

[ham]

Quote:WHERE CAN I FIND MORE ACCREDITATION INFORMATION ABOUT
THE ICHM DEGREE?
The ICHM Degree is listed on the NOOSR (National Office of Overseas Skills
Recognition) register at http://www.deetya.gov.au/noosr/cep/. This means that
the Degree meets Generally Accepted Accrediting Principles (GAAP) as espoused
by Dr John Bear (leading US researcher in non-traditional higher education) and
PIER in the United States. Please refer to Dr Bearís site
(http://www.degree.net/guides/accreditation.html)

ICHM, the "highly debatable" hospitality (later forfeited) "alternative school" run by DEGREEINFO.COM clique member George Brown, could APPARENTLY count on the "moral" authority of dr. John Bear. Of course anyone could just type a few HTML lines claiming dr. Bear endorses them, but i'm not aware of dr. Bear finger pointing ICHM.

[Geoff Vankirk]

Are you implying that Dr John Bear may have helped Dr George Brown with some type of indirect endorsement? I'm shocked. Why would Bear do something like that? Isn't Dr George Brown a distinguished academic in Australia?