Discussion: Woman Gets 16 Years For Running Fake University In Bay Area

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Discussion for article #229715

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Sarah Palin’s next scam. (Conservative University Nativist Training Seminars?)

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Business model for GOP ‘free enterprise’

AND she was/is creatin’ jobs…

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I’m just glad it wasn’t Condoleeza Rice

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Pleasanton is now part of the bay area?

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Aw NUTS! that was my safety school!

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I would think so. I used to live near there (Livermore for 5 years) and it is definitely part of the Bay Area. Try driving I-580 through there and over Altamont Pass during rush hour and you will never have to ask that question again.

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Online School Exists Only On Paper

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Some good context here: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/waiting-to-happen-a-hundred-trivalleys/article3817234.ece?ref=relatedNews

…both she and Wang apparently managed to exploit two fundamental loopholes in U.S. regulations governing university admissions for international students: first, the profound lack of sophistication in the way regulators are assessing university quality; and second, the job has been entrusted to the wrong people.

Both flaws are related yet separately significant too. Take the second loophole first: the fact that the Department of Education, the only true repository of expertise in assessing what “education quality” means in the U.S., in not regulating university admissions is setting the system up for failure. Why has this happened? It is a quirk of history that can be traced back to the U.S. Patriot Act of 2001.

Bin Laden’s attack on the US continues to succeed.

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I can think of a few other fake universities that also qualify, Regent is one.