89:
According to Bear, the catalog made no distinction among these schools other than listing their different names. The catalog offered degrees at all levels by "professional assessment of career achievements" and claimed to have accreditation from the "College for
Professional Assessment", an agency
101:
law office as the location of its campus, something over which a lawyer at that office expressed "outrage". According to Bear, this lawyer had filed the incorporation documents for Thomas
Jefferson Education Foundation, as well as for other schools later determined to be diploma mills, including
106:(aka "Thomas Jefferson University"), a school begun by Les Snell. Monticello University was "an unauthorized foreign non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the State of South Dakota" that, along with several other of Snell's schools, was shut down by the government in 1999.
215:
220:
91:
20:
which is a theory of education nor with a charitable foundation called the Thomas
Jefferson Education Foundation which serves as the parent of Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, a
178:
225:
152:
162:
17:
69:
courses. Bear responded to the ad and the foundation sent a 20-page course catalog covering the following schools:
25:
98:
185:
103:
52:
66:
158:
123:
21:
124:"Thomas Jefferson Education Foundation: Tax Exempt/NonProfit Organization Information"
209:
40:
36:
59:, in 1998 the Thomas Jefferson Education Foundation ran an advertisement in
61:
216:
Unaccredited institutions of higher learning in the United States
92:
List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning
221:
Distance education institutions based in the United States
154:
Bears' Guide to
Earning Degrees by Distance Learning
57:
Bears' Guide to
Earning Degrees by Distance Learning
8:
115:
73:Thomas Jefferson University of Virginia
146:
144:
142:
140:
97:The Foundation gave the address of a
33:Thomas Jefferson Education Foundation
7:
151:Bear, John; Bear, Mariah P. (2003).
14:
90:Bear had yet to come across (see
179:"State of Kansas v. Snell et al"
82:Presidential American University
85:Cambridge University in America
39:run in the 1990s and based in
1:
18:A Thomas Jefferson Education
242:
226:Fraud in the United States
76:University of Williamsburg
26:Mooresboro, North Carolina
15:
99:Sioux Falls, South Dakota
126:. www.taxexemptworld.com
16:Not to be confused with
104:Monticello University
157:. Ten Speed Press.
79:Dartmoor University
67:distance education
233:
200:
199:
197:
196:
190:
184:. Archived from
183:
175:
169:
168:
148:
135:
134:
132:
131:
120:
241:
240:
236:
235:
234:
232:
231:
230:
206:
205:
204:
203:
194:
192:
188:
181:
177:
176:
172:
165:
150:
149:
138:
129:
127:
122:
121:
117:
112:
49:
29:
12:
11:
5:
239:
237:
229:
228:
223:
218:
208:
207:
202:
201:
170:
163:
136:
114:
113:
111:
108:
87:
86:
83:
80:
77:
74:
48:
45:
22:charter school
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
238:
227:
224:
222:
219:
217:
214:
213:
211:
191:on 2020-08-22
187:
180:
174:
171:
166:
164:1-58008-431-1
160:
156:
155:
147:
145:
143:
141:
137:
125:
119:
116:
109:
107:
105:
100:
95:
93:
84:
81:
78:
75:
72:
71:
70:
68:
64:
63:
58:
54:
51:According to
46:
44:
42:
38:
34:
27:
23:
19:
193:. Retrieved
186:the original
173:
153:
128:. Retrieved
118:
96:
88:
60:
56:
55:, author of
50:
47:Diploma mill
41:South Dakota
37:diploma mill
32:
30:
210:Categories
195:2008-07-23
130:2008-07-23
110:References
62:USA Today
53:John Bear
161:
35:was a
189:(PDF)
182:(PDF)
159:ISBN
65:for
31:The
94:).
24:in
212::
139:^
43:.
198:.
167:.
133:.
28:.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.