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PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming

Posted by timothy on from the can-they-get-to-university-of-phoenix-soon? dept.

CousinLarry writes "Online 'university' Trinity Southern University (Google cache of disabled site homepage) has been sued by the state of Pennsylvania." Besides spamming, this self-described school has, as another reader points out, "awarded an MBA to a cat owned by an undercover Pennsylvania deputy attorney general." I bet my cat could get a PhD.

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  1. What happens when you don't force accreditation by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll take Britain's godless socialised education every day over educational free market capitalism. Employers shouldn't have to waste time determining whether a university is real or not. This is just as disruptive as the fear of litigation that prevents people giving bad references

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