Ben Johnson Wrote:Stalkers and all around arseholes better be careful what they say.  There is a whole mix of people with St. Regis degrees and any conclusions as to honesty may be premature.

Quote:In brief: Not everybody on the list bought degrees
July 30, 2008

A database list of almost 10,000 individuals associated with "Operation Gold Seal" includes names of 27 people who didn't necessarily buy degrees but were associated in other capacities with the investigation of a Spokane-based diploma mill, sources said Tuesday.

The 27 names are included in a master list obtained by The Spokesman-Review and published on the newspaper's Web site, spokesmanreview.com.

The 27 individuals include people who may have been given degrees by the diploma mill operators, had other business dealings with them, or are U.S. government employees or Liberian government officials who assisted in the investigation, sources said.

They are not accused of criminal conduct and should not be considered as confirmed buyers of degrees, sources said.

The names are: Melinda Adkins; Alick Lawrence Chambers; Domah Cooper; Theresa Dunaway; Craig Fullerton; Shirley George; Dale Gough; Karen Joy Grammar; John Grant; Kanika Grant; Bob Guidon; Jennifer L. Jacobi; Roy E. Jensen; Jayne W. Johnson; Michael Johnson; Nancy Keteku; Ernest Kiazolu; Aaron Kollie; Richard S. Montgomery; Dante Paradiso; Suzanne Petrucci; Rocky Pool; Christina Porche; Nancy M. Porinchok; Alexander H.N. Wallace; Steve Wise; and Peggy Zabriski.

Ben Johnson Wrote:The prosecutor never heard that St Regis offered honorary degrees.  Didn't the guy in charge ever look at the friggin website.  Obviously not.  What ABA accredited school did he fraudulently acquire an education from?

Quote:Marc LaBella, who teaches science at Ocean County College, said his name was on the list not because he’d bought a diploma ... but because a friend did so on his behalf, as part of what he described as an “honorary degree” program set up by the company under the St. Regis University name.

“It wasn’t a degree. Someone gave me as a gift an honorary degree from this company and it turns out it was a bogus degree,” said LaBella, who added that he’d spoken with the federal prosecutor on the case about the possibility of testifying in court. (The diploma itself, he said, contained misspellings as well.)

[Bud] Ellis, the prosecutor, said he wasn’t aware of any honorary degree program being run by the company, but he couldn’t deny its existence, either.

Herbert Spencer Wrote:Robert A. "Bud" Ellis, University of Texas, 1977.

Quote:In brief: Not everybody on the list bought degrees
July 30, 2008

The names are: ...Dale Gough

Quote:One of them, Dale Gough, is an expert on diploma mills at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Quote:International Consulting Service

Does your institution have inexperienced staff attempting to evaluate foreign credentials? Do you need someone to review your structure for or processing of international admissions?

An experienced IES professional will train your staff to evaluate foreign credentials, or to review your admission processes and policies for international applicants. Contact Dale Gough at 202-296-3359 or goughd@aacrao.org for more information.

Ben Johnson Wrote:From Inside Higher Ed:

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5733&start=90


Of course that is about Jimmy kissing ass.  Here's the link

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/01/diplomas

Stalkers and all around arseholes better be careful what they say.  There is a whole mix of people with St. Regis degrees and any conclusions as to honesty may be premature.

The prosecutor never heard that St Regis offered honorary degrees.  Didn't the guy in charge ever look at the friggin website.  Obviously not.  What ABA accredited school did he fraudulently acquire an education from?

Quote:This different game included work - sometimes very substantial - done by these applicants. The St. Regis con artists pretended that the assignments, projects, theses, and dissertations submitted by these people were assessed and approved by experienced faculty. Since the authorities have seized all St. Regis files, both electronic and print, they have in their hands the hard evidence of the works submitted by these few people. As a matter of fact, St. Regis maintained an electronic library where all written works submitted by "graduates" were published. Some of these works were very substandard even ludicrous, some were mediocre, and a very small number could be actually compared in quality with theses or dissertations submitted to regular, accredited universities.

These people duped this way can be accused of naivete, stupidity and many other things, but not dishonesty. People also seem to forget that for a number of years the Liberian embassy and Liberian Ministry of Education confirmed St. Regis accreditation and legitimacy. Now we know that Liberian officials were bribed, but we had no way of knowing that at the time.

Ben Johnson Wrote:Many people actually did submit substantial work to St. Regis.

When people like Levicoff, who outwardly appears to show no significant intelligence, can brag about receiving 92 credits from TESC for life experience, why is it unreasonable that someone who actually is intelligent would expect similar treatment from a different school?

The fact that any evaluation would be done by a high school dropout would be unknown to the student.