Error of Fact Number 28, for example, has become quite famous and mentioned in a variety of media articles. It concerns a Spanish dissertation that allegedly was approved by faculty who did not speak Spanish. In reality, the CPU faculty mentor who supervised the dissertation worked with the student in Spanish and the doctoral thesis provided Table of Contents, Summary and additional information in English. Moreover, CPU policy changed in early 1995, so that dissertations could be submitted only in English. Documented refutation of all the false claims against CPU has been published on line in “The Chronicles of Columbia Pacific University”. Please, note that CPU graduates earned their degrees through competency and hard work. Thousands of them teach at accredited schools or work in research, civil service, business and industry. .

Columbia Pacific University continues to inspire those who are not afraid of progress, of new and innovative ideas. For example, the Amos Bronson Alcott Center for Educational Research at European-American University integrates “Competency Education” by Columbia Pacific University:

http://www.thedegree.org/cer21.html

Columbia Pacific University was given Full Institutional Approval by the California State Board of Education – which, by the very nature and meaning of the work. . .means ‘accredited”.

Also, most lay folks are always about 20 years behind relating to cutting edge higher education. This unawareness allowed, for many year, At-A-Distance universities to be made fun of by certain groups of people who didn’t really know what they were talking about. Now, it seems enough years have passed, and enough investigations have taken place that it just doesn’t make much difference what anyone wants to say negative about the so-called ‘correspondence’ schools.

The latest conclusion information released by both the federal government research on higher education and all private investigation groups that took up the challenge strongly indicate what most in the field have known for decades: students who obtain their bachelor, graduate and/or doctor level education by no classroom at-a-distance learning, obtain a more quality education in every major, meaningful area. They learn faster, retain longer, spend less money and less time and are better qualified for the ‘real’ world.

Thank you for your patience,

Bill Rogers, Ph.D. Director, Behavioral Medicine Southwest Behavior Research Institute

CPU was never a diploma mill but a pioneer of distance education. Its closure resulted from the dirty politics of higher education in California, not from genuine pedagogical considerations. CPU was supervised and accredited (”approved”) by the State of California. More than 7000 graduates earned well-deserved academic degrees from CPU between 1978 and 1997.

For a short list of distinguished CPU alumni, please, go to:

http://www.behaviorresearch.org/columbia_pacific_university.htm

The court that closed CPU in 2000 also ruled that CPU degrees are legally valid. Today CPU degrees are internationally recognized and they continue to be legally valid in most parts of the US. Because CPU grads worked hard for their degrees and gained a most valuable educational experience, it is the shame of states like Texas and Oregon that they persecute people for their scholarly accomplishments. Moreover, these states act unconstitutionally because they don’t recognize the authority of California to grant academic degrees. In fact, the Texas law also implies that California is a “fraudulent” state.

Nowadays many universities follow CPU’s pioneering distance learning programs, including Columbia, Harvard and the University of Phoenix. Furthermore, many schools speacialize in total distance learning, among them, Capella, Nova and Walden.