Wouldn’t you think an “expert” in accreditation matters might know the difference between accredited and unaccredited?  Well, a real expert would, but an idiot who appointed himself an expert like George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin) could only screw it up.

Never one to disappoint, stalker George Gollin has declared that California-based West Coast University is a diploma mill, despite the fact that it is accredited by ACICS, a national accreditation agency recognized by the D of Ed and CHEA.  Further, West Coast University’s nursing and dental hygiene programs are program accredited as well.

Let the backpedalling begin!

Quote: West Coast University is a senior university accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) to award Associate and Bachelor of Science Degrees in Nursing, Business Administration, Dental Hygiene, and Health Care Administration.

The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools is listed by the United States Department of Education as a National Institutional Accrediting Agency. Its accreditation of degree-granting institutions also is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

…The Baccalaureate Degree Program in Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

…The Dental Hygiene program is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) and has been granted the accreditation status of “initial accreditation.”

George Gollin Wrote:West Coast University vs. West Coast University
by g-gollin on Sat Oct 16, 2010 10:48 pm

There are two different "West Coast University" things kicking around out there in the bitstream. There is WCU "in" California that plops the word "International" after its name here and there, and also [url]WCU "in" Panama[/url] that sometimes adds the word "Panama" after WCU.

The California WCU has a spluntingly gretchive web site, with its "faculty and administration" page rattling on about FERPA (which doesn't actually apply to the customers of a Goatbag), but not saying much of anything about its "professors."

The Panama WCU does not show its Management Committee wearing Panam hats, amusing though that might be. The PanaMoonian WCU team has our friends from the Nebraska Admiralty splendidly turned out in their business suits, as well as much of the Lloyd family.

The two WCU's are not friends. WCU-California whanged unsuccessfully on WCU-Panama in a WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center complaint in 2009. Sarfraz Lloyd, WCU-Panama Big Cheese, presents his side in his PresiNoodle's message:

Quote:Global Universities and their students/graduates face lot of problem in absence of a document that says this university or Institution is accredited by such and such accrediting agency. Some Institution cannot afford this costly process. Mistakenly global university with affiliated colleges in many nations, serving honestly under their set principles, vision and mission do not find a proper accreditation agency that could judge the suitability and the quality of the curricula of the courses offered by any global university.

On top of this major issue another issue is created to threat or horrify such global Universities are self-designated degree experts with their degree info blackmailing. They defame, disgrace and harm image of many global institutions, considering them as their divine right to defame the executives, teachers and students of such global institutions. They ignore the fact that global university does not mean just distance learning Institution that could be an institution working globally in many developing nations to help them to get proper knowledge / training /wisdom to get better employment to that helps to kill poverty in many families and nations.

Such persons and their degree info's mostly under wrong concept for example West Coast University (WCU) Panama has no operations in Singapore and china and never had any convocation/ graduation ceremony held in Singapore but still some cheaters using the name of WCU Panama and held the convocation sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/334550 - & forums.vr-zone.com/.../342710-discussion-mp-chan-soo-sena-s-uni-presence-sends-wrong-signal.html and many more with the reference of this news of the Straits Times .

They even did not check that the West Coast University mentioned on various websites is different than actual WCU Panama. The fake west Coast University even tried to cheat "The World Intellectual Property Organization, Arbitration and Mediation Center by filing case against us but God has His own ways to punish the cheaters , the Arbitration And Mediation Centre found their cheating in case No.D2009-0972...

I like it when the GoatBags mudwrestle with each other.

With less than six months left on her trumped up sentence, Dixie Randock is moving from Victorville to a halfway house near her family.  

Bureau of Prisons records currently show her location as Seattle CCM (community corrections management), an administrative field office.  Reliable sources tell us her ultimate destination is an RRC (Residential Reentry Center, or halfway house) within a short distance of her eastern Washington home.

Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, Chuck Berry....among the many who survived and thrived after their stints as guests of the government.  Look for Dixie to achieve new heights as she continues her indomitable path through life.

One thing is certain...nobody will ever accuse George Gollin of being a "mastermind" of anything.

Here's an interesting study that compares return on investment for various categories of colleges.  Unfortunately it did not consider for-profit schools like U of Phoenix or Kaplan, or any of the new wave of non-traditional DL schools.  Not surprisingly, the return on investment is higher for the more selective schools.  But there are wide variations of return within each category.

Quote:Is College Worth the Investment?
by Mark Schneider
American Enterprise Institute
October 12, 2010

For decades, a college education was the second most-expensive commodity families ever paid for, after their house—and given rising tuition and falling house values, college may now be the most expensive purchase. Knowing how that investment is going to pay off is a critical consideration that should factor into the decision about which school to attend. Going forward, we need to find ways to make these detailed return on investment data available for more schools and help students make worthwhile investments of their time and money.

Quote:Key points in this Outlook:
• The return on investment (ROI) from a college degree is higher at more selective universities and at public universities.
• Within each level of selectivity, ROI varies widely among individual colleges.
• With many colleges simply not worth the investment, we need to find ways to collect and publish ROI data so students can make better decisions about what college or university to attend.

Quote:One way to judge whether the ROI is worthwhile is to figure out how much it costs students to borrow money to attend a college and compare those costs to the rate of return. Currently, unsubsidized student loans from the federal government carry a 6.8 percent interest rate. This rate is a natural starting point to compare student ROIs; if the rate of return is lower than the cost of the borrowed money, attending that college does not seem like a prudent choice.

Of the schools for which PayScale reported data, seventeen colleges (listed in table 1) fail this basic test. While about half of the colleges are in the two lowest levels of selectivity, an equal number are in the middle, and one is in the “very competitive” category. Twelve are private, not-for-profit institutions, while only five are public institutions, which reflects the higher cost of attending a private institution.

While this analysis sets an absolute threshold keyed to a well-known and published interest rate, other loans that students may take out have higher rates. These private loans have variable interest rates that can reach 9 or 10 percent. Obviously, as we move the cutoff from the 6.8 percent federal-student-loan rate used in the above example to the higher costs for a mix of federal and private loans, the number of schools whose ROIs fail to surpass the cost of money grows quickly. ...

Quote:TABLE 2
HIGHEST AND LOWEST RETURNS ON INVESTMENT BY BARRON’S SELECTIVITY LEVEL FOR PRIVATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT AND PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Private, Not-for-Profit
Level of Selectivity ROI

Private, Most Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 11%
University of Miami, FL 8%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA 13%
California Institute of Technology, CA 13%

Private, Highly Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 10%
Rollins College, FL 7%
Union College, NY 12%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA 12%
Grove City College, PA 12%

Private, Very Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 9%
Willamette University, OR 6%
Siena College, NY 11%
Manhattan College, NY 12%
Brigham Young University, UT 14%

Private, Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 8%
Campbell University, NC 5%
Liberty University, VA 6%
Point Park University, PA 6%
St. Ambrose University, IA 6%
Lindenwood University, MO 7%
Wentworth Institute of Technology, MA 10%
Lawrence Technological University, MI 10%
Assumption College, MA 10%
Howard University, DC 10%

Private, Less Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 7%
Shaw University, NC 4%
Clark Atlanta University, GA 6%
Columbia College–Chicago, IL 6%
Friends University, KS 7%
Dowling College, NY 8%
Wayland Baptist University, TX 8%
University of Bridgeport, CT 8%

Private, Noncompetitive
(Average for All Institutions) 6%
Davenport University, MI 5%
Mercy College–Main Campus, NY 6%


Public
Level of Selectivity ROI

Public, Most Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 13%
The College of New Jersey, NJ 12%
College of William and Mary, VA 14%
University of Virginia–Main Campus, VA 14%

Public, Highly Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 12%
SUNY at Geneseo, NY 10%
Ramapo College, NJ 10%
University of Pittsburgh, PA 10%
Ohio State University–Main Campus, OH 11%
Georgia Institute of Technology, GA 14%
Colorado School of Mines, CO 14%

Public, Very Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 10%
Georgia College & State University, GA 8%
California Polytechnic State University–
San Luis Obispo, CA 13%
University of Delaware, DE 13%
James Madison University, VA 13%

Public, Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 9%
Chicago State University, IL 6%
California State Polytechnic University–
Pomona, CA 12%

Public, Less Competitive
(Average for All Institutions) 9%
Black Hills State University, SD 5%
Northeastern State University, OK 7%
California State University–Fresno, CA 11%

Public, Noncompetitive
(Average for All Institutions) 9%
University of Arkansas–Little Rock, AR 6%
Cameron University, OK 6%
Utah State University, UT 11%
University of Wisconsin–Platteville, WI 11%
Kansas State University, KS 11%

Hard to tell what to make of this article on the Dutch website MijnPersbericht.com.  Appears to be a rehash of allegations from the Dolphin lawsuit, but with a few extras, perhaps gaining something in the translation (or perhaps not).  

As far as we know, there are not (yet) any criminal charges pending against Gollin for his role in the Liberian shakedown operation described in the Dolphin lawsuit, nor is Gollin currently out on bail.  Likewise, he has not (yet) been formally suspended by his employer for his activities, although he is or was on a paid "sabbatical" leave.  

But perhaps the Dutch sources have better information than we do.  Clearly Gollin is garnering the same endearment overseas as he has earned domestically.  First in the original Dutch language version, then the Google translated version.

Quote:Amerikaanse professor verkoopt valse diploma-erkenningen.
augustus 30th, 2010 | Author: Onafh. Persgroep

George Gollin, professor fysica aan de University of Illinois UIUC in de Verenigde Staten en bestuurslid van de Amerikaanse Council of Higher Education Accreditation CHEA , is door de openbare aanklager in California in beschuldiging gesteld van fraude en afpersing nadat hij had getracht valse onderwijserkenningen te verkopen aan startende private scholen en universiteiten.

Volgens het 58 pagina’s tellende dossier ingediend door directeur Jerroll Dolphin van de Saint Luke School  trachtte professor Gollin tussen 2005 en 2008 hem meermaals een zogenaamde erkenning te verkopen voor $6000 per maand, volgens Gollin afkomstig van verschillende Ministeries van Onderwijs in corrupte Afrikaanse naties zoals Nigeria, Liberia en Congo. Hij beloofde de school dat hun aantal inschrijvingen aanzienlijk zou stijgen na aankoop, en dat men het bedrag snel zou terugverdienen.

Hetzelfde scenario herhaalde zich ten opzichte van een tiental andere instellingen. Toen steeds meer scholen wantrouwig werden en weigerden de omkoopsom te betalen, zette Gollin hen onder zware druk door een reeks brieven naar plaatselijke kranten te zenden op briefhoofding van CHEA waarin hij beweerde dat de betrokken scholen waardeloze en illegale diploma’s zouden afleveren aangezien ze niet door hemzelf werden erkend.

Een aantal kranten drukte de brieven van CHEA af, inclusief  namen van onderwijzers en directieleden die de omkoopsom hadden geweigerd te betalen. Door de geleden morele schade en het verlies aan inkomsten als gevolg van de negatieve publiciteit vordert de openbare aanklager een recordbedrag van $120.000 vanwege George Gollin ten behoeve van de geviseerde slachtoffers.

Gollin zelf mag zijn proces in vrijheid afwachten na betaling van een borgsom bij de rechtbank van Los Angeles. De Universiteit van Illinois heeft de sjoemelende professor voor 1 jaar geschorst, iets wat Gollin zelf in zijn weblog tegenspreekt en uitlegt als een ”onbezoldigd sabbatjaar” waarin hij een boek schrijft. CHEA heeft vooralsnog geweigerd om commentaar te geven over de toekomst van professor Gollin, waardoor in de Verenigde Staten de perceptie is ontstaan dat wel meer scholen en universiteiten hun erkenning van deze organisatie louter tegen betaling hebben aangekocht.

Ook de echtgenote van George Gollin, Melanie Loots, werd intussen door een Amerikaanse consumentenorganisatie aangeklaagd wegens het verkopen van overleden proefdieren aan vleesverwerkende bedrijven. De echtgenote is eveneens werkzaam als woordvoerster voor CHEA.

Bronnen : University of Illinois http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/index.php/..._Extortion.

Rechtbank van Los Angeles, California http://dockets.justia.com/docket/califor...791/467131

Quote:American professor sells fake diploma awards.
August 30th, 2010 | Author: Ind.. Press group

George Gollin, professor of physics at the University of Illinois UIUC in the United States and board member of the American Council of Higher Education Accreditation Chea, by the prosecutor in California, accused of fraud and racketeering after he had tried to fake education approvals to sell start private schools and universities.

According to the 58 pages of documents submitted by Director Jerroll Dolphin from the Saint Luke School attempted Professor Gollin between 2005 and 2008 he repeatedly called a recognition to sell for $ 6000 per month, according Gollin from various Ministries of Education in corrupt African nations like Nigeria, Liberia and Congo. He promised the school that their enrollment would increase significantly after purchase, and that the amount would soon recover.

The same scenario repeated itself over a dozen other institutions. As more and more schools suspicious and refused the bribe to be paid, put Gollin them under heavy pressure through a series of letters to local newspapers to broadcast on letterhead of Chea, who argued that the schools worthless and illegal diplomas would deliver as they are not by themselves were recognized.

A number of newspapers printed the letters off Chea, including names of teachers and directors who refused to pay the bribe. By the non-pecuniary damage and loss of revenue resulting from the negative publicity the Prosecutor seeks a record amount of $ 120,000 for George Gollin for the targeted victims.

Gollin itself must await trial in freedom after paying a deposit in the court of Los Angeles. The University of Illinois Professor of the cheating one year suspended, Gollin something self-contradictory and explains his blog as an "unpaid sabbatical year" in which he writes a book. Chea has so far refused to comment on the future of Professor Gollin, which in the United States, the perception has arisen that have more schools and universities recognize this organization only charges have purchased.

The wife of George Gollin, Melanie Loots, an American consumer has meanwhile been charged with selling of deceased animals to meat processors. The wife is also active as a spokeswoman for Chea.

Sources: University of Illinois http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/index.php/..._Extortion.

Court of Los Angeles, California http://dockets.justia.com/docket/califor...791/467131

Something the homosexual community should be proud of...
Remember all the scorn when perversion is associated with homosexuality?
No longer...
Thomas Chip White
1 owner of degreeinfo, John near 's leading aid and DE/DL expert
2 cancer cure expert without a university degree
3 gay teen pornographer and talent scout
4 now gay rights advocate
Wow!
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/04/what_if_..._no_mo.php

Quote:Chip White, a spokesman for Yes on 8, confirmed that the Wirthlins are members of the Mormon Church.

Hello everyone:

I am new here, a friend of mine just turned me on to this site.  I am a 53 year old straight former administrator of Survivor Island.org, which is a website that was founded in June of this year by myself, 3 other administrators, and your Chip White.  One of our original administrators was run-off pretty quickly, and Chip and his young sidekick Blair Wilson, tried running me off almost right away after I finished a re-write of Empty Closets.com's siteuser rules for SI.  (Empty Closets.com specializes in trying to convince sexually-confused teens and young adults that they are gay, and is also partially owned by Chip White and MRC).  I lost my admin position at Survivor Island the first week of August, voted off by the 3 gay guys that still run the site.  The focus of Survivor Island was originally supposed to be providing peer and adult mentor support for sexually-abused teenage boys and young adult men.  Many of our original younger members had joined us after a crisis on Male Survivor.org, where a gay moderator had been caught trying to pick-up several of the teenage members under his supervision there back in April.  I was used by Chip, Blair, and the other admin, Ken, to bring to SI several teenagers who trusted me from MS, where I had been an adult site mentor for 2 years.  Once our site was up and running, I was no longer needed.  We had our last big shootout over Labor Day weekend, at which time I was permanently banned from SI by Chip and his sidekick Blair.  In June Chip flew to Atlanta to meet with a 17 year old from MS that he had first met on EC, then flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for Blair's graduation, so Blair and Chip know each other really well.  Now the 17 year old, who has a long history of childhood sexual victimization, wants desperately to be Chip's next big adult film star.

Our last big shootout was over whether or not there is such a symptom of childhood sexual abuse as same-sex attraction disorder.  In my own recovery I was successfully treated for SSAD, and have lived the last 13 years of my life as totally straight, half of that time happily married, largely free from my own history of childhood sexual victimization.  There have been dozens of recent high-level academic studies by PH.D-level researchers at respected universities confirming SSAD as a symptom of childhood sexual abuse and the validity of treating such a symptom.  However, Chip White has found an outspoken gay therapist (Joe Kort, out of Royal Oak, MI), to support his contention that any history of SSAD makes someone 100% gay.  Chip has been feeding his confused young guys this theory on EC as well as on SI now since June.  It was Labor Day weekend that I also discovered Chip's gay adult website, MRC, which specializes in "twink" porn, or gay porn involving young adults aged 18 to 25.  Once I discovered his website, it all started making sense to me.  Chip has been abusing his position and misrepresenting himself as an allegedly experienced therapist with a degree allegedly from Oberlin College in Ohio, on both Empty Closets as well as Survivor Island.org, to get to know and befriend sexually confused and now abused teenagers seeking help, convince them that they are gay using flawed and misquoted research, to the total exclusion of the majority of academic research on the subject, and once these young men turn age 18, Chip tries to bring his new friends into his adult porn world.  

At the very least what Chip is doing constitutes a serious breach of professional ethics as well as a serious conflict of interest.  Does he even have a degree or is that made-up too?  He has been portraying himself on Survivor Island as an experienced therapist.  Since my discovery I told Chip flat out that if any of the young men who trusted me that I brought to SI from MS EVER ended up being adult porn stars for MRC that I would turn him in to California Mental Health authorities.  What he has been doing with young childhood sexual abuse survivors should be considered very abusive and possibly illegal.  These young guys came to Male Survivor seeking help for their issues, not hoping to become twink gay film stars.  Right after Labor Day weekend I wanted so badly to turn Chip in, but I didn't have enough information about him to do so.  If he doesn't even have a degree, and with the information that I have found here, we have more than enough to hang him once and for all.  He should have absolutely no business trying to counsel teenage sexual abuse survivors using false academic credentials.  

Chip has a profile on Linked-In as well as on some Sacramento gay dating site.  I have the URL's to both as well as the URL to MRC Entertainment.  It would please me greatly to share my info with all of you here, in the hope that his ongoing abuse of these kids can be stopped.

Mountain Man Mark
Denver, CO

http://www.sacramentogaymen.com/members/...d=11860905

NOTE:  May be extremely ***Triggering***.  This is Chip White's gay young adult video website:
[Link deleted]
Be sure to click on the Records Compliance Statement at the bottom of the page!!!

Quote:Cordelia Loots-Gollin

Going to the Slackers? Take me with you!

The Slackers, Green Room Rockers, Johnny Red & The Skamunists are playing the Grog Shop this Friday, October 1st. I would really like to go! If you are going and take me with you I will buy you gasoline and can drive one or both ways (I can drive stick).

Thinking of going but not sure? Listen to "married girl:"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QSRlG6vXmY

September 29, 2010
Cordelia Loots-Gollin
Cordelia.Loots-Gollin@oberlin.edu

Wanted
Seeking Rides
Outside Oberlin

Rich Douglas Wrote:10-05-2010
Rich Douglas

Narcissism and Posting
For the past 12 years or so, I've been posting on quite a few DL-related fora. After pondering it for awhile, I realize that my primary aims in doing so have been two:

a. Showing off what I know.
b. Proving you're wrong.

Oh, sure, there's been no small amount of desire to truly help people as well, but I'm afraid (truly) that reason doesn't crack the top two. Thus....

I've concluded that my behavior has been incredibly narcissistic and selfish. Regardless of the low esteem in which I hold a few posters, I've found a way to get even lower. Thus....

I'm going to refrain from posting for all the right reasons. I'll still read the boards, and will be happy to respond to the few PMs requesting assistance. If I have some salient and extremely essential information another poster requires--certainly a long shot, at best--I'll PM it. I would like to reserve the opportunity to post if I'm convinced it will help the community, but I suspect that will not happen. And I won't be posting this on the other board--most readers there also read here, I suspect. But it really doesn't matter. So....

See you around. I may have something to announce next year. Peace....

Losers.............................................Winners


Now that's responsible journalism.  Not one "trojan" or "gamecock" joke in the entire story...

Quote:In USC vs. USC, Supreme Court action favors West Coast
A 13-year trademark battle ends as the high court lets stand a ruling that the 'SC' logo belongs to the University of Southern California, not the University of South Carolina.

By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau
October 4, 2010|7:43 a.m.

WASHINGTON — The University of Southern California shut out the University of South Carolina in the Supreme Court on Monday as the justices let stand a trademark ruling holding that the interlocking letters "SC" are the registered mark of the sports teams based in Los Angeles.

The high court turned down an appeal from USC in Columbia, S.C., which since 1997 has sought to register its own "SC" logo for the sale of sports merchandise.

USC in Los Angeles objected, and a special Trademark Trial and Appeal Board considered the evidence. It concluded that although "real fans" would not be fooled, casual fans might be confused as to whether the sportswear came from the West Coast or the East Coast school.

The federal trademark law forbids the use of identifying marks that are "likely to cause confusion" among consumers.

Lawyers from South Carolina disputed the board's conclusion, but a federal circuit court upheld it in January, and the Supreme Court said it would not hear an appeal in USC vs. USC. The case was among hundreds that were denied a review by the high court on its opening day.

"We are pleased the Supreme Court did the right thing and ended this after 13 years," said Michael Adler, a Los Angeles lawyer for USC. "We'd rather beat them on the football field than fight them in litigation, but if they won this, they could have used this [logo] on any merchandise."

The sale of sports merchandise with collegiate logos is a $3-billion-per-year business, according to estimates provided to the court. Sometimes, there can be confusion when letters such as "UM" or "OU" are used, because they could refer to one of several universities.

In its appeal, South Carolina's lawyers said its "SC" logo had two stylized, curved letters that interlocked. This is in contrast to the blocked letters used by the Los Angeles school. They urged the high court to take up the case to make clear that common marks such as letters could not be trademarked by one seller.

But lawyers for the Los Angeles school argued that its use of "SC" was a nationally known trademark that had been used for selling merchandise for decades. During that era, the university in South Carolina had used "Carolina" or "USC" to advertise its apparel.

"We have always been 'SC,' " Adler said, "and we were there first."

Of course I support academic freedom. Especially when it comes to non-traditional colleges and universities. But it goes way beyond this.

The Government of the United States, the land where I reside is extremely repressive towards anyone who opposes conformity. The issue of academic freedom is only the tip of the iceberg. If you investigage the restrictions of freedom, beginning with Freedom of expression, sexual abuse hysteria, the stupid and counterproductive drug laws, the expansion of the prison-industrial complex and so on and so forth than you will know what I am talking about.

I personally refuse to call myself a Republican or a Democrat. They are both two sides of the same coin. I think that Neo-Cons and Neo-Liberals are all working towards the same goal and that is control of individual freedom.

For more info on the US Police State see...

http://www.infowars.com/