any comments about Newport University??
Jonathan Liu
Does anybody have some comments about a Newport University
at http://www.newport.edu ? Is this a good unaccredited
university??
Thanks.
Jon.
Steve Levicoff
Jonathan Liu <jon...@tamu.edu> writes:
"Good unaccredited university?"
I think we have just seen the creation of a new oxymoron.
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Emir A. Mohammed
Steve Levicoff wrote:
> Jonathan Liu <jon...@tamu.edu> writes:
>
> >Does anybody have some comments about a Newport University
> >at http://www.newport.edu ? Is this a good unaccredited
>
> "Good unaccredited university?"
>
> I think we have just seen the creation of a new oxymoron.
Is this what we awoke the great Levicoff to answer?... heh, heh...
Laters,
Emir A. M... who reads this post and keeps hearing "TGSA, TGSA"... ah
well...
pen...@emirates.net.ae
In article <348E4E6F...@netcom.ca>,
Hi Emir,
I couldn’t help but think your reference to the “great Levicoff” has its
own place in oxy-moronic history ! Come to think of it, the name does
have a certain onomatopoeic ring to it that might do well in a circus
..... even thought you didn’t see fit to use a capital “G” !
Since your postings are usually so full of ... er ... information, I’m
surprised you didn’t mention to Jonathan that Newport University has
California State Approval , and also is ISO.9000 certified as an
organisation to provide quality-assured educational programs.
Being California State Approved means that so-called “recognised”
accreditation is not required. Indeed, the CPPVE (soon to be taken over
by the California Department of Consumer Affairs according to post passim
by John Bear) recognises no accreditation other than its own approval
procedures, and will list for information only and on request those
voluntary accrediting bodies which are themselves listed by the US DoEd.
So, depending on Jonathan’s objectives and situation, Newport University
may well be a suitable choice if he is looking for a quality-assured
degree with totally valid and legal credentials.
You mention TGSA, which has recently achieved US regional accreditation.
From what I can gather, TGSA’s fees are about three times those of
Newport. TGSA also has a residential requirement that, eg. for someone
like me in the Middle East and others round the world, lends a particular
and distinctive meaning for US regionally-accredited Distance Education
programs - you’ve got to travel a Great Distance to be able to do them !
Regards,
Neil Hynd
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John B. Bear
Neil Hynd writes:
<<<I’m surprised you didn’t mention to Jonathan that Newport University
has
California State Approval>>>
Well . . . it's limbo time in California, waiting to see what the new
state agency (which has taken over the office space of the old state
agency) will do. But there does exist (according to information from Dr.
Miller, head of the soon-to-be-history agency) a bit of a problem. For
several years, Newport's position was that they had no California
students, since all got their diplomas from Newport of Utah, and
California doesn't buy this.
As for ISO 9000 (9001, actually), as Dr. Dalton, owner of Newport,
explained it to me this week, "It is a matter of setting, and then
meeting standards. If your specs call for cement life vests, and you
make good cement life vests, you'll get your ISO 9001." I asked him if
Newport was the academic equivalent of cement life vests. He laughed.
To the best of my knowledge, no other institution in the world has ISO
certification. This either means that Dr. Dalton is way ahead of his
time, or on an irrelevant side track. Time will tell.
John Bear, Ph.D. (Michigan State University, 1966)
john...@degree.net
http://www.degree.net