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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Pacific Western University...

...is the creme de la creme of diploma mills, the Harvard Yale Princeton of diploma mills, the Ecole Normale Superieure of diploma mills... Its alumni include top federal, state, and local officials, among them the Ohio House minority leader, Joyce Beatty, who will have a great deal to do with improving Ohio's schools.


Bit of a stomach-turner in her recent past: She was awarded an honorary doctorate by a legitimate university, based in part on her having earned a doctorate at Pacific Western...

But it's all sort of a stomach-turner. One of the highest ranking government officials of an important state is a cynical purchaser of a bogus degree. She will now direct her seriousness about academic attainment to the educational benefit of millions of her fellow citizens. Yick.
Posted at: 1/09/2007 09:38:00 AM