Fact Fifteen (July 24, 2007) - Capella University and the University of California, Irvine Find Ways to Skirt California Laws!

Somehow, that doesn't surprise us! As the following e-mail from Gary Matkin, the unethical Dean of Continuing Education at UCI to Capella's lying President, Michael Offerman attests, Capella's shysters "still [had] problems with [their] marketing agreement, even though [they] have been careful not to talk about per-student agreements." Isn't that nice?! As we've already noted, Capella University has paid UCI for students sent to them as a result of Matkin's "agreements." Frankly, we believe that Matkin and UCI were taking kickbacks and finders' fees for steering their students to Capella.

"From: Gary Matkin
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:18 PM
To: Michael Offerman (E-mail)
Cc: Jane Welgan
Subject: UCI/Capella Agreement

Greetings! I hope the summer has treated you well. We are very pleased with the articulation agreement we now have here. I expect to sign it and get it to you very soon. Maureen and I had a good meeting and tossed around quite a few ideas. She has indicated that your lawyers still have problems with our marketing agreement, even though we have been careful not to talk about per-student agreements and, in fact, have been very specific about what we would do for the agreed upon cost of $6,000.

You and I might have a conversation about this. I know you are coming west later this month. I’ll be busy with our Hewlett seminar on 9/22-24, but if you could work us into your schedule, it would be great to see you and show you around. Let me know.

I’ll be in touch soon,

Gary"

Of course, we have more e-mails and other documents regarding UCI's "agreements" with Capella that we'll be posting in the very near future.