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From: Barbara <
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Subject: Re: Not only the Ostrich buries it head in the sand.
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:45:36 -0700
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:50:39 -0700, Larry Barnes <
Larryb@citynet.com>
wrote:
A Poster here decided to do a good deed for Lady Veteran and posted an >information alert message pertaining to the bad reputation an online >university has earned for its actions of scamming students and even
scamming the US Government. The US Department of Education charged
them with fraud and the university paid up 5.2 million dollars for its >misdeeds. However according to the multiple complaints posted by
those who are enrolled or formerly enrolled many problem persist.
Many posted complaints say "Beware, stay away from this school".
The good Samaritan who posted the alert for LV actually expected that
LV would thank him for the "heads up" warning. So what happened next.
She chastised him for revealing the schools deviancies and stated that
now everyone will know that she is using a "diploma mill".
Some people just cannot be helped.
Larry
I just did a quick search. LV should have taken heed.
Here are just a bit of what I found
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Terrible school. The graduate students are barely literate and lazy.
The "professors" are at best classroom moderators. The MBA program is
not accredited by the AACSB. Decided to get real, take the GMAT, and
go to a real grad school.
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Enrolling at Grand Canyon University was relatively simple, since they
only want your money. My first class was a waste of time and money, it
wasn't at all necessary. I withdrew after the first class because I
referred my daughter to their PhD program. They treated her so
terribly and then was condescending to me when I questioned their
behavior. I made the mistake of letting them talk me into giving them
a second chance.
The instructor in my second class supposedly was a PhD with good
credentials. She was dumber than a box of rocks. She did not even know
the universtiies policies for research papers, but attempted to grade
them anyway. Her grammar and writing abilities