CCU Issues in Texas??

[Basket Weaver]

I just got off the phone with a professor at CCU. He stated that this has been addressed before at the Texas Supreme Court; indeed Texas does NOT recognize DETC as an accreditation agency. Since this is a direct violation of federal law, many people are confronting them about it. Until it's resolved, I can not work in my home state because they will not honor my degree:mad: . Keep in mind, this goes way beyond CCU, many distance learning degree programs are being discriminated against by this idiotic Texas ruling. After years of listening to Texas jokes, I see that many of them were fairly accurate.

I also just sent the author of the article a mail which I enclosed here for your viewing pleasure; may I encourage others concerned about this issue to do the same. Talking and whining about it doesn't do any good; taking action does.

Rose Ybarra,

I grew up in Sour Lake and worked in Beaumont in my high school years. Now, half a world away, I am stationed in England with the Air Force. Much to my dismay, I was reminded of home when someone sent me the article you wrote concerning the Professor at Lamar with the questionable Doctorate degree. While the information about her degree was accurate, the information concerning the college itself, as well as DETC, was not. I believe more research should have been done before these comments were printed. As I’m sure you’ve been made aware of by now, DETC is a leading accreditation agency by the US Government and the US Department of Education. Numerous federal agencies use them to accredit their programs, including all the branches of the military. To post that personnel with these degrees are criminal is simply very inaccurate/slanderous. Besides this, your article called CCU a diploma mill, I believe this has opened your paper up to legal issues should the college choose to pursue them; I for one am calling them tonight to ensure they are aware of these claims.

As you can probably tell by now, I am enrolled at CCU and I can assure you that they are NOT a diploma mill. The classes are very tough and all exams are proctored by my base’s Education Office. The US Air Force has paid for all of these classes, something they do not take lightly; CCU is an accepted college with ALL branches of the military because it IS accredited. Being stationed overseas, as I have been for the past 18 years, we do not have the option of attending a traditional brick and mortar college. Distance learning from an approved university is many people’s only choice when choosing to further their education. I will graduate next month with an MBA which will be accepted all over the country…except, according to your article, Texas. Doesn’t quite add up, does it?

While I have no power over what your paper decides to do, I would imagine an immediate retraction, or at the very least, a correction of the facts are in order. I am not alone in this feeling, if you were to read the responses to your article; you will see it has irritated several of your readers. I am also a moderator of an online educational forum; several of the members there are sending mail to the university as well. It seems it is in your paper’s best interest to resolve these inaccuracies.

Thank you for your time.

Anyways, I gave CCU the website address of the article; they stated they would be conferring with the dean and the legal department. Thanks to sky_light to bringing it to everyone's attention.