Careful What You Say

[Brian Crawford]

Man, I just hope you're not serious. You compare SRU with CCU and Nova during their early stages???!!! You compare with CCU and Nova a fraudulent operation like SRU run by a high school dropout who impersonated dozens of non existent "professors" to trick students???

the merit of the comparison is that there are dodgy schools that are accredited, and dodgy schools that are unaccredited. What seems 'too much to take' when a school is unaccredited becomes understandable and easily stretched within 'reasonable' limits, courtesy of huge payments to politicians, lobbies and their cronies.
University of Phoenix and Capella may be 2 examples.
I read that Phoenix too started as a basement operation.

Are you actually saying that schools like Phoenix, Capella, CCU, Nova, etc. started off as scam operations comparable to SRU and, then, became respectable by making huge payments to politicians, lobbies, etc., in the same way that SRU bribed Liberian politicians? That the only difference between these schools and SRU is that the SRU scam artists didn't stretch their bribing far and wide enough, and that if they had been smart enough to do that, SRU would be now well on its way to becoming a legitimate and even respectable school?

It would take a stretch of the imagination to breaking point to entertain such possibility even for a brief moment.

The schools you mention did not start as "dodgy" operations. They started in a different era when different circumstances prevailed. They belonged to the non-traditional movement in higher education and some of them built a reputation as quality representatives of that movement while it lasted. When circumstances changed, some of these schools adapted to the new circumstances and sought R.A. or N.A., and some just fell by the wayside.

CCU was a special case as it continued to operate for many years on the old, outdated model of the 70's and 80's. That was the reason it attracted criticism from some quarters. People in the late 90's and early years of the 21st cent. could not understand the older concept of state approved, non traditional education.

You are not a good listener are you. All schools begin new as being unaccredited. That has nothing to do with comparing all schools with SRU or any other specific school.

Now, if you'd like an example of purchasing accreditation, then maybe you should look at Jones International University which appeared from the blue and had regional accreditation in hand. There is a mystery for you to noodle over. And which one is ownd by the New York Post, isn't that Kaplan, hummm.