Careful What You Say

[Someone]

From Inside Higher Ed:

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...3&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?

The mix of people with St. Regis degrees also includes those - probably a small number, I have no way of knowing - who had no idea at the time that they were dealing with a phony operation. The St. Regis con women and men were shrewd enough not to handle all applicants in the same way. When they realized that an applicant thought he/she was dealing with a real, accredited university and did not intend to just buy a degree, they played a totally different game.

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.

To my knowledge, most St. Regis "graduates" belonging to the above category denounced their St. Regis "degrees" when, sometime in 2004, became certain beyond any reasonable doubt that it was St. Regis was a fraud. That is, when there was a formal announcement by the Liberian embassy to that effect. Some of these denouncements took place on discussion forums and are on public record.