THE HISTORY OF L.I.A.R.

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if "alternative" got the same sense as when coupled with "lifestyle"...

L.I.A.R. upset a lot of people by doing openly what universities do secretly; exchanging a meaningless honorary credential for a donation. When plans for the serious school fell through, all the money was donated to scholarship funds in Europe, Africa and the US. I was one of the founders of L.I.A.R. which was traded, in 1974, to a man in Holland, for (would I be making this up?) 1,000 Ethiopian metal ear pickers. The Dutchman operated L.I.A.R. for profit, and added the fake degrees of Brownell University and the California Institute for Higher Learning.

what a joke!
and another version still...here he said "a portion (roughly 10%) of the monies went DIRECTLY to some UK children charity"...we discussed the "10%" and the "directly" elsewhere...


In the quote above, the keynote speaker spins the truth some more, and charities multiply to include a few more...
What a joke!

Face it, there is no "need" for alternative schools unless one's chosen field lays beyond the usual academic boundaries...ballistic proctology is an example, but three years subscription to Thomas Chip White gay teen porn sites might help.
Some professions (EG engineers, physicians, experimental variety of sciences such as chemistry, biology, geology, whatever ) are very hard to fit in the DE/DL frame anyway.
There are more already good standing, established, chartered DE/DL schools than one might imagine.

Of course when push comes to shove, details matter less than substance. And substance tells us how DE/DL good standing (EG no Phoenix, no Capella ) established/accredited universities can be as fussy as brick&mortar ones.
What the person might want, then, is more leniency...much more.
At which point, my private guess is that buying a $100 B.A COD might save lots of money and hassle.
Sure, the intended shall know he might be called to defend his position again & again; and that to most his position will appear indefensible no matter what.
But the same applies to schools with more substance, yet unaccredited...hell, even accredited institutions in bad standing can attract lots of question...
Of course I mean here by those who can part wheat from chaff...
Most employers are clueless, but more than this.
I contacted several NACES evaluators to have my brick&mortar, State-university, 110% accredited degree evaluated.
To my surprise, some did not even know my university (hint: some of its faculties are the biggest in north-america! ); some mistook it for another university with a similar name...