Fact Fifty-six (October 16, 2007) – Capella University’s Unethical Practices Exposed by the Los Angeles Times!

NEWS FLASH!
The Capella University - University of California Kickback Scam is now being reported by:

The Chronicle of Higher Education

CBS News

The Los Angeles Times

In addition to the unfolding scam in which for-profit Capella University is paying kickbacks to other schools, we strongly urge the news media to look into the fact that Capella University literally hires and retains charlatans who have bought and used fake degrees from diploma mills. One of those charlatans is Diane Stottlemyer who is at the very center of the lawsuit that uncovered the current kickback scandal. Some of Stottlemyer's "degrees" may be found on this site at:

Capella Charlatan, Diane Stottlemyer, Exposed

It also needs to be mentioned that Gary Matkin, the Dean of Continuing Education and Kickback Studies at UC Irvine, along with Robert Dynes, President of the UC System KNEW about Capella's charlatan more than two years ago - and they did NOTHING.

Now on with our story! Capella University's unethical practice of paying kickbacks to schools such as the University of California, Irvine (UCI) has been exposed once more – this time by the Los Angeles Times. Not only that, but the Times has also exposed new information about the fact the Capella University has kickback arrangements with two other schools within the University of California system – UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. It appears as if UC Berkeley may have also signed a kickback agreement with Capella but, allegedly, none of UC Berkeley's students were scammed into transferring into Capella. Not surprisingly, Gary Matkin, the unethical Dean of Continuing Education, just happens to be good buddies with Capella University's equally unethical President and liar, Michael Oaf Offerman, is trying to worm his way out of this scam. According the LA Times,

"Gary Matkin, UCI's dean of continuing education, said the money was used to market students' eligibility to transfer to Capella in the extension program's quarterly catalog, on its website and through letters sent to students. Matkin, who set up the arrangement in 2002, said, 'Everything we did was perfectly legal, straightforward and in the best interests of our students.

'People are misconstruing this as somehow being, if not illegal, unethical, so we're just going to stop.'"

Surely, Gary Matkin is a complete moron if he sees nothing wrong with his school's unholy alliance with Capella University. Of course, Matkin is such a jerk that he tires to hide the FACT that he, UCI's moronic Chancellor, Michael Drake, and the extraordinarily unethical president of the entire UC system, Robert Dynes (you remember him – he;s the one that politicians and members of the public, alike, screamed for his resignation when it had been exposed that Dynes has been living like a king off of taxpayer dollars), all KNEW about the fact that UCI was taking kickbacks, as well as the FACT that the Capella instructor, Diane Stottlemyer, who is at the heart of the lawsuit currently pending against Capella, had bought fake degrees from a diploma mill. As with all dishonest and unethical sleaze bags like Gary Matkin, Michael Drake, Robert Dynes, and Michael Oaf Offerman, they sat around and did NOTHING. Well, that's not exactly true. Gary Matkin is such a dishonest and unethical moron that instead of responding to complaints about the corruption at Capella, he COOPERATED with Capella in their sleazy defense against the student.

Before we continue, we want to point out what the unethical money-mongers from the UC system KNEW about the Capella situation more than two years ago (they've had more than enough advance warning prior to the recent news reports about the unethical Capella-UC kickback scam). The following thugs all received e-mails about the situation:

* Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education and Kickback Scams at UCI

* Michael Drake, UCI Chancellor and Oaf (who has been involved in numerous scams including (but not limited to) the recent Erwin Chemerinsky scandal, the black-market sale of body parts (yes, you read that correctly). Click HERE to view one story about Michael Frankenstein Drake and his body snatchers that is posted on a CBS News web site.

* Robert Dynes, the corrupt President of the entire UC System, is such an unethical scumbag that he had that audacity to admit,

"to a culture in his office of 'trying to get away with as much as possible and disclose as little as possible.’"

Click HERE to read one of the stories about Dyne’s unethical behavior.

* Michael Oaf Offerman, Capella’s President and Liar - Oaf Offerman may not officially work for the UC system, he's certainly the first thug that Gary Matkin whines to when UCI students complain about the corruption at Capella. As a result, we're including Offerman in this list because Matkin (and perhaps Dynes and Drake) refused to respond to complaints but had no problem forwarding them onto Capella and their shysters.

Now that we've got that settled, readers will be interested in reading parts of one of the complaints that had been sent off to Dynes and his goons:

"UCI has been receiving money, from Capella University, for marketing their diploma mill. As I mentioned in [an earlier] correspondence to you, the 'instructor' at the heart of [the] lawsuit against Capella literally purchased her 'degrees' from another diploma mill. It is abhorrent to think the University of California, as a respected public institution, is helping to market a for-profit scam like Capella University. Why?"

"Capella University pays UCI for students who enroll and then complete some of their courses at their diploma mill. Why?"

"In light of the fact that at least one of [the] 'instructors' [Diane Stottlemyer] at Capella literally purchased her "graduate degrees" from a diploma mill (Lacrosse University), why does the University of California continue to endorse Capella University?"

Wonder why scumbags Matkin, Drake, and Dynes refused to respond? Obviously, they've not only endorsed the Capella-UC kickback scam for more than two years but also have also endorsed Capella's practice of hiring charlatan's like Diane Stottlemyer.

The Los Angeles Times, like the Chronicle of Higher Education, met with the same kind of moronic excuses from one of Capella University's spokesholes, Michael Walsh. The Times stated that,

"Michael Walsh characterized the referral fees as 'tuition-sharing payments' to offset UCI's costs for marketing his school's programs."

Clearly, Walsh is just another two-faced moron. "Tuition-sharing payments?" Give us a break! Walsh is simply too dishonest to say that Capella University has been paying KICKBACKS!

The Times then reported that,

"Capella has 'numerous' credit-transfer programs, mostly with community colleges, Walsh said, but he declined to disclose how many involve per-student payments."

So, spokeshole Walsh, just how many community colleges are receiving kickbacks from Capella? What are you so AFRAID to tell the truth?

The Times shed some new light on other "alliances" that Capella has with other UC schools; the article mentioned a spokeshole from Robert Dynes Office, Chris Harrington, who stated that "[UC] Santa Cruz does not receive payments." Gosh, perhaps Chris Harrington is one of the people from Dynes Office who tries "to get away with as much as possible and disclose as little as possible.’" (Click HERE to see the San Francisco Chronicle Article where sleazebag Dynes makes that statement.)

The Los Angeles Times stated that Ann Guy, a spokeshole from UC Berkeley, (oops, we almost forgot to mention that Gary Matkin worked at UCB before moving on to lead the Kickback Studies programs at UCI) commented that,

"Berkeley also is ending the program because of the public perception of ethical problems, said Ann Guy, spokeswoman for the university's extension program."

Getting back to another one of Gary Matkin the Moron' asinine statements, the Times noted,

"Because it [Capella University] is for-profit, I [Matkin] felt that it was logical for us to seek some sort of compensation for the marketing we are doing for them," Matkin said, "so we asked them to give us money for the number of students that matriculated to them."

Is Matkin REALLY that STUPID? Why of course he is! WHY is a non-profit state school MARKETING for a for-profit scam like Capella University. There is NOTHING logical about that. Oh yeah, we almost forgot, Gary Matkin and Capella’s President, Michael Oaf Offerman are good ‘ole boys.

The Time article concluded with a real kicker:

"David Hawkins, director of public policy and research for the National Association for College Admission Counseling, in Alexandria, Va., said such arrangements appeared to be in conflict with the association's ethical code, which bars member schools from accepting payments for placing or recruiting students. UCI is not a member, but UC Berkeley is.

'Any time you reduce the basis of recruitment to cash kickbacks or commission sales, the ability and willingness of recruiters to act in the interest of students goes downhill quickly," he said.'"

It should be very evident that Gary Moneybags Matkin, Michael Frankenstein Drake, Robert Dishonest Dynes, and Michael Oaf Offerman all have something other than the interest of students in mind – their own self-centered hides. Frankly, they should all be fired.