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Sewer v. Gutter…

… journalism is a distinction Christopher Hitchens introduces (new one on me, at least) in a recent post about Rupert Murdoch; but the distinction also works in ranking bottom-feeder universities. Gutter would be for-profit online tax siphons; sewer would be their kissing cousins, the diploma mills.

For those, like UD, who enjoy the spectacle of a real shitstorm, there’s this story out of Kentucky:

A Louisville-based ministry and a large Arizona church are suing each other over the disputed sale of an unaccredited online university last year, each accusing the other of fraud.

Child of the King Ministries of Louisville agreed to sell an entity called American International University for $400,000 to the Phoenix-based Church for the Nations in May 2010, both lawsuits say.

Okay, so straightforward sale of a diploma mill from one house of God to another… Happens every day… Only Church for the Nations is so dumb it thought a diploma mill… I dunno… was something… had assets or something rather than just being a website that sold pieces of paper…

The church’s lawsuit said the [diploma mill owner church] claimed the university had numerous accreditations, affiliations with other schools and a regular cash flow of between $15,000 and $30,000 from foreign students who wanted a credential from an American institution.

That church… Ah say that church didn’t get the no honor among thieves memo…

Margaret Soltan, July 23, 2011 8:34AM
Posted in: CLICK-THRU U., diploma mill

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One Response to “Sewer v. Gutter…”

  1. adam Says:

    Sewer v. gutter? A distinction without a difference. A pox on both their houses, Ah say.

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