Associate online degree programs | Indiana reports a rise in online enrollment

Posted by bposton on November 29th, 2006 — Posted in associate online degree programs

Indiana is reporting a rise in online enrollments at the colleges and universities in the state.

First we’ll take Perdue.

Dennis McElhoe, Purdue’s director of continuing education and conferencing, said Purdue began offering online courses in the 1999-00 academic school year with two enrolled students. Now, more than 4,700 students are enrolled in the courses.

Next, there’s Indiana U.

Indiana University had 40 graduate-level online courses in the school of education during the 2005-06 academic school year, the coordinator of student and course support reported. The number of students enrolled were not counted.

The university had 83 undergradate online courses and 44 high school online courses as well.

Last year, 1,917 Indiana undergraduates were enrolled in the courses, compared to 1,734 the previous academic school year.

So, even more evidence that online education is surging.

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Engineering Degree Online|Fake Degrees - a Crime in Texas

Posted by bposton on November 3rd, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

Just thought I’d make a quick point about the trouble you can get into trying to pass off a fake degree.

In fact, in the great state of Texas, it’s a crime. According to law down in the heart of Texas, it is a crime (a misdemeanor) to use a fraudulent or sub-standard degree to promote a business to seek employment or ask extra compensation.

There was a story a while back about a guy who got a PhD from a place called
Lasalle University. You’ve probably seen their ads in some of the major papers.

Well, LaSalle University closed in 1997 but then it was purchased by a different
party and continued to operate under the same name.

Evidently this guy who got his PhD had no idea of the school’s troubled history.

Which means he didn’t do his homework.

According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board LaSalle University
of Louisiana was an institution that did offer degrees for less than college level work required. They basically were a fraudulent or substandard institution.

Now this guy had a complete set of papers from the university which included a letter of acceptance, and a list of required reading and coursework. He also wrote a 150-page dissertation. But the truth is that anything he turned in would have been OK with Lasalle, according the folks in Texas.

Just remember this. For online degree programs there are no hard rules of regulation,
except accreditation.

And in Texas, using an unaccredited degree is against the law.

Got it, partner?

Ben

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