Breyer State

[Randall Flagg]

"Columbia Pacific lost its State Approval to operate in 1995 after failing a review by the Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education."
--John Bear--AED--December 1999

So CPU lost its state approval in 1995, but, then we have the fact that Bear listed it in:

College Degrees by Mail-100 Good Schools-page 75--1995
College Degrees by Mail- Page 170--1996
So the year it lost its approval it was listed in the guide, and in 1996, one year later, it is still listed as one of the good schools. So the approval was gone while it was still being listed as a good school, a good choice.

Oh yes, I might had best point out that the 1995 guide didn't separate the unaccredited and accredited schools. They were all lumped together and there was not one negative word said about the unaccredited schools, all were called GOOD.

Bear goes out of his way to assure the readers that accreditation while important isn't final and that many VERY GOOD schools are unaccredited. page-23

Bear now claims to have always said accredited was much better and that unaccredited schools were just ok. But he actually says in the 1995 guide, page 23, that there are some very good unaccredited schools and he in no place in the book contradicts this or does he say that accredited is much better, or for that matter, even better.