08-20-2007, 11:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2007, 11:49 AM by Randall Flagg.)
Document # 497811
Three things impress me about Columbia Pacific in comparison with all other non-resident universities now operating at the undergraduate and graduate level.
1- The quality of the people involved. The President Richard Crews, is a psychiatrist with his M.D. from Harvard University. The co-founder and Dean, Les Carr. Ph.D., was for many years, President of a large traditional university in Illinois. No other school of its kind has officers with such impressive backrounds.
2- The facilities. Unlike many new schools that start out with small rented offices and no permanent foundation, CPU is built on the foundation of an existing and large entity, the Wholistic Health and Nutrition Institute, which has its own large building, a national clientele and reputation, and a good staff. This close interaction, between University and Institute, is reflected in CPU's emphasis in areas related to health sciences, nutrition, wholistic health, rehabilitation counseling, and the like. However, with an adjunct (part-time) faculty of more than 80 persons (nearly all with earned doctorates), degree work is available in dozens of fields, including business, psychology, aviation management, law enforcement, fire sciences, and economics.
3- The costs are quite low, CPU apparently feels that while it is not wrong to make a profit running a school, it need not be an exorbitant profit. The cost of degree programs has been set well under those offered by any of the other schools operating under California's $50,000 law (i.e. if you have that much in property, and meet other minimal requirements, you are authorized to grant degrees). The typical degree programs cost around $1,600 to $1,700.
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This document is titled "Information Prepared by Dr. John Bear Exclusively for his Counseling Clients." The document bears the number 497811 and is assumed to be an information document used by Bear early on in his educational consulting practice.
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John DeNevers, supplier of this document writes the following about 497811.
"It was Prepared EXCLUSIVELY for the Clients of Degree Consulting Services." The date of personal consulting services with Dr. John Bear was January 22, 1980.
At the time the address was:
Dr. John Bear, Ph.D.
Drawer H
Littleriver, CA 95456
It's now:
Degree Consulting Services
P.O Box 3533
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
--John DeNevers--2001--By email--Located at CPU History
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I think this should clear up any thoughts or ideas that John Bear was not recommending CPU to his paying clients. There was obviously a well thought out method to this consulting advice. Later statements that try to put distance between John Bear and CPU are misleading and incorrect. This information of what he (John DeNevers) was advised by John Bear is what many others have also reported. Document #497811 is the smoking gun.
Three things impress me about Columbia Pacific in comparison with all other non-resident universities now operating at the undergraduate and graduate level.
1- The quality of the people involved. The President Richard Crews, is a psychiatrist with his M.D. from Harvard University. The co-founder and Dean, Les Carr. Ph.D., was for many years, President of a large traditional university in Illinois. No other school of its kind has officers with such impressive backrounds.
2- The facilities. Unlike many new schools that start out with small rented offices and no permanent foundation, CPU is built on the foundation of an existing and large entity, the Wholistic Health and Nutrition Institute, which has its own large building, a national clientele and reputation, and a good staff. This close interaction, between University and Institute, is reflected in CPU's emphasis in areas related to health sciences, nutrition, wholistic health, rehabilitation counseling, and the like. However, with an adjunct (part-time) faculty of more than 80 persons (nearly all with earned doctorates), degree work is available in dozens of fields, including business, psychology, aviation management, law enforcement, fire sciences, and economics.
3- The costs are quite low, CPU apparently feels that while it is not wrong to make a profit running a school, it need not be an exorbitant profit. The cost of degree programs has been set well under those offered by any of the other schools operating under California's $50,000 law (i.e. if you have that much in property, and meet other minimal requirements, you are authorized to grant degrees). The typical degree programs cost around $1,600 to $1,700.
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This document is titled "Information Prepared by Dr. John Bear Exclusively for his Counseling Clients." The document bears the number 497811 and is assumed to be an information document used by Bear early on in his educational consulting practice.
==============================================
John DeNevers, supplier of this document writes the following about 497811.
"It was Prepared EXCLUSIVELY for the Clients of Degree Consulting Services." The date of personal consulting services with Dr. John Bear was January 22, 1980.
At the time the address was:
Dr. John Bear, Ph.D.
Drawer H
Littleriver, CA 95456
It's now:
Degree Consulting Services
P.O Box 3533
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
--John DeNevers--2001--By email--Located at CPU History
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I think this should clear up any thoughts or ideas that John Bear was not recommending CPU to his paying clients. There was obviously a well thought out method to this consulting advice. Later statements that try to put distance between John Bear and CPU are misleading and incorrect. This information of what he (John DeNevers) was advised by John Bear is what many others have also reported. Document #497811 is the smoking gun.
James
A.S., B.S., M.B.A.
A.S., B.S., M.B.A.