BeaverHuntr
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Hey one of my good buddies played baseball at Grand Canyon GO LOPES!!!!!!!
Any of you growing Green Crack and Maui Wowie?
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Not my approving there is a national board which acredits universities. All for profit universities are a joke in the academic world. Known as the McDonald's of education. But then again you probably think McDonald's serves healthy nutritious meals. I never said you had or didn't have a degree just asked where it is from because eye clearly did not teach you anything. And when did I say I hated Christians? Lmfao why don't you make up more shit and say I said it. So where is your degree from ?
PixiDustr
Active Member
Grand Canyon University was just accredited as a Div I school. They don't have a football team yet, but they will!
Go Lopes...what Christian University has a hand sign that looks like this? hahaha p.s. I'm an atheist...but my kid works there...so GO LOPES
1337hacker
Active Member
I'm just gonna put it out there real quick.... I have offered HPLC testing a few times on a few different local boards... I have yet to receive a PM with someone interested ... leads me to believe no one in AZ actually wants the accurate numbers and would instead like to think their shit is 20 % + lol!!
In the 1000s of tests that have been run through HPLC machines, only 1 or 2 strains have ever even broken the 20 % mark.
I'll offer one more time. If you are interested in HPLC testing , (not done by Az Med testing, we all know they are a joke), I can line up the tests for about 60 Bucks each . Generally a gram sample is a good start, but we can even test early plant tissue to get early indications of CBN/THC ratios etc.
Let's see if there's interest this time, or if people are still going to keep trying to hit the 31 % mark at AZ med testing LOLZ
In the 1000s of tests that have been run through HPLC machines, only 1 or 2 strains have ever even broken the 20 % mark.
I'll offer one more time. If you are interested in HPLC testing , (not done by Az Med testing, we all know they are a joke), I can line up the tests for about 60 Bucks each . Generally a gram sample is a good start, but we can even test early plant tissue to get early indications of CBN/THC ratios etc.
Let's see if there's interest this time, or if people are still going to keep trying to hit the 31 % mark at AZ med testing LOLZ
BeaverHuntr
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Very few strains on the planet break the 20 % mark, shit sounds accurate.
BeaverHuntr
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With all due respect it's a Christan based college they even have a church on campus. And I'm pretty sure they are a Div 2 school.View attachment 2447348
Grand Canyon University was just accredited as a Div I school. They don't have a football team yet, but they will!
BeaverHuntr
Well-Known Member
Fear the fork!
PixiDustr
Active Member
check the news... this just happened in the last 30-45 days http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/grand-canyon-university-joins-western-athletic-conference
HB DC
Active Member
I am with you on this one... I am waiting for a 35% strain to hit the AZ market.. HA
BeaverHuntr
Well-Known Member
There was some Kosher Kush at the Farmers Market a few months ago that was 28%!!!!!!!!! LOL
BeaverHuntr
Well-Known Member
No shit huh?
Lol at the grand canyon university accreditation. They only have two legitimate accreditations in their nursing program which is the ways most of these bullshit universities work, their institutional accreditation comes from a bullshit company called the higher learning commission. People believe anything they read.
Lol at calling that marketing press release a news article.
Here's a better article about the accrediting agency for these for profit diploma mills.ecember 17, 2009[h=1]Inspector General Warns Accreditor Over Online College, Raising Fears Among For-Profit Institutions[/h]
By Eric Kelderman
Washington
The inspector general of the U.S. Education Department has issued a harsh assessment of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, one of the nation's six regional accreditors, recommending that the secretary of education consider limiting, suspending, or terminating the organization's status.
The unusual action is in response to the Office of Inspector General's examination of the commission's standards for measuring credit hours and program length. The office completed similar reports for two other regional accreditors in recent weeks but has not recommended that the secretary consider taking any action against either of those groups.
In a heavily redacted memorandum released on Thursday, Wanda A. Scott, an assistant inspector general, questioned the Higher Learning Commission's decision to approve accreditation of American InterContinental University, a for-profit college owned by the Career Education Corporation.
"This action by HLC is not in the best interest of students, and calls into question whether the accrediting decisions made by HLC should be relied upon by the Department of Education when assisting students to obtain quality education through the Title IV programs," Ms. Scott wrote to Daniel T. Madzelan, acting assistant secretary for postsecondary education. (Title IV is the section of the Higher Education Act that governs the federal student-aid programs.)
In response, Sylvia Manning, president of the Higher Learning Commission, said the inspector general's case against her organization was "flimsy" because it was based on one issue raised in accrediting just one institution.
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While the department removed much of the substance of the memo in the version it released, the issue that the inspector general is concerned with is whether American InterContinental is ensuring that students who take courses outside of a traditional classroom setting are appropriately earning the degrees the college awards to them, Ms. Manning said. It's a difficult issue, she added, because it's hard to apply the common definition of a credit hour to the online setting.
The Higher Learning Commission was aware of problems with how the university measured credit hours and program length, but in May it granted American InterContinental initial accreditation, with some limitations. "Our decision was, We'll bring them into the tent, and we'll make them shape up," Ms. Manning said.
But the inspector general disagreed, and asked the Education Department in August to conduct a review, she said. The department has not released the findings of that review, she said. Instead, Ms. Manning said, the memo released today was sent to the news media and to Congressional offices several months after the inspector general's initial investigation, in a way that she said seems "designed to raise the most alarm."
[h=4]A Scare for Accreditors[/h]Belle S. Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges, said the call for action by the inspector general's office was "scary," because it was based on the review of just one institution. The Southern Association had previously accredited American InterContinental, before the institution decided to seek approval from the Higher Learning Commission after 2007. Although the Southern Association had placed American InterContinental on probation from 2005 to 2007, the institution left the association's oversight in "good standing," Ms. Wheelan said.
News of the report also sent shock waves through the for-profit higher-education sector. Nearly all of the major for-profit companies whose institutions seek regional accreditation do so through the Higher Learning Commission, and all of them, like American InterContinental, operate extensive distance-learning programs.
Among many officials in the for-profit sector, the Higher Learning Commission has been seen as a friendly venue. The officials say this is not because it has lax standards but because it has taken a more flexible approach in its assessment of programs.
Career Education's stock price plunged by nearly 20 percent on Thursday as reports of the inspector general's action spread. Several Wall Street analysts warned that regulatory pressure on the companies, which is already rising as a result of negotiations over regulations for use of federal student aid, was likely to persist.
It "suggests a whole new level of hostility on the part of OIG to what and how the for-profit schools operate, particularly online," said Trace A. Urdan, an education-industry analyst with Signal Hill, an investment bank. Mr. Urdan has been critical of some of the Education Department's recent overtures aimed at reining in some of the sector's practices.
Jeffrey M. Silber, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets, called the report one part of a "double whammy" for the sector, coming one day after a member of Congress called for hearings on the "conduct of for-profit educational institutions in the United States." Thatrequest, in a letter from Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, to the chairmen of two U.S. House of Representatives committees, came because of news reports questioning student-recruiting tactics in the for-profit sector.
Jeff Leshay, senior vice president for public relations and corporate communications at American InterContinental, said that while officials there are concerned with the inspector general's report, they are working hard to respond to the educational concerns raised by both the accreditor and the inspector general.
"We firmly believe that the decision by the [Higher Learning Commission] was entirely appropriate and entirely supported by the facts," Mr. Leshay said.
By Eric Kelderman
Washington
The inspector general of the U.S. Education Department has issued a harsh assessment of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, one of the nation's six regional accreditors, recommending that the secretary of education consider limiting, suspending, or terminating the organization's status.
The unusual action is in response to the Office of Inspector General's examination of the commission's standards for measuring credit hours and program length. The office completed similar reports for two other regional accreditors in recent weeks but has not recommended that the secretary consider taking any action against either of those groups.
In a heavily redacted memorandum released on Thursday, Wanda A. Scott, an assistant inspector general, questioned the Higher Learning Commission's decision to approve accreditation of American InterContinental University, a for-profit college owned by the Career Education Corporation.
"This action by HLC is not in the best interest of students, and calls into question whether the accrediting decisions made by HLC should be relied upon by the Department of Education when assisting students to obtain quality education through the Title IV programs," Ms. Scott wrote to Daniel T. Madzelan, acting assistant secretary for postsecondary education. (Title IV is the section of the Higher Education Act that governs the federal student-aid programs.)
In response, Sylvia Manning, president of the Higher Learning Commission, said the inspector general's case against her organization was "flimsy" because it was based on one issue raised in accrediting just one institution.
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While the department removed much of the substance of the memo in the version it released, the issue that the inspector general is concerned with is whether American InterContinental is ensuring that students who take courses outside of a traditional classroom setting are appropriately earning the degrees the college awards to them, Ms. Manning said. It's a difficult issue, she added, because it's hard to apply the common definition of a credit hour to the online setting.
The Higher Learning Commission was aware of problems with how the university measured credit hours and program length, but in May it granted American InterContinental initial accreditation, with some limitations. "Our decision was, We'll bring them into the tent, and we'll make them shape up," Ms. Manning said.
But the inspector general disagreed, and asked the Education Department in August to conduct a review, she said. The department has not released the findings of that review, she said. Instead, Ms. Manning said, the memo released today was sent to the news media and to Congressional offices several months after the inspector general's initial investigation, in a way that she said seems "designed to raise the most alarm."
[h=4]A Scare for Accreditors[/h]Belle S. Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges, said the call for action by the inspector general's office was "scary," because it was based on the review of just one institution. The Southern Association had previously accredited American InterContinental, before the institution decided to seek approval from the Higher Learning Commission after 2007. Although the Southern Association had placed American InterContinental on probation from 2005 to 2007, the institution left the association's oversight in "good standing," Ms. Wheelan said.
News of the report also sent shock waves through the for-profit higher-education sector. Nearly all of the major for-profit companies whose institutions seek regional accreditation do so through the Higher Learning Commission, and all of them, like American InterContinental, operate extensive distance-learning programs.
Among many officials in the for-profit sector, the Higher Learning Commission has been seen as a friendly venue. The officials say this is not because it has lax standards but because it has taken a more flexible approach in its assessment of programs.
Career Education's stock price plunged by nearly 20 percent on Thursday as reports of the inspector general's action spread. Several Wall Street analysts warned that regulatory pressure on the companies, which is already rising as a result of negotiations over regulations for use of federal student aid, was likely to persist.
It "suggests a whole new level of hostility on the part of OIG to what and how the for-profit schools operate, particularly online," said Trace A. Urdan, an education-industry analyst with Signal Hill, an investment bank. Mr. Urdan has been critical of some of the Education Department's recent overtures aimed at reining in some of the sector's practices.
Jeffrey M. Silber, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets, called the report one part of a "double whammy" for the sector, coming one day after a member of Congress called for hearings on the "conduct of for-profit educational institutions in the United States." Thatrequest, in a letter from Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, to the chairmen of two U.S. House of Representatives committees, came because of news reports questioning student-recruiting tactics in the for-profit sector.
Jeff Leshay, senior vice president for public relations and corporate communications at American InterContinental, said that while officials there are concerned with the inspector general's report, they are working hard to respond to the educational concerns raised by both the accreditor and the inspector general.
"We firmly believe that the decision by the [Higher Learning Commission] was entirely appropriate and entirely supported by the facts," Mr. Leshay said.
PixiDustr
Active Member
It's the first one I saw...my point is that the school IS a div I...how it came that way...i don't care cause my kid works there and it's her bread and butter. and channels 12,5 and 3 had stories about it when the new broke...not that they are credit worthy...GO LOPES
What does it's sports division have anything to do with academic quality? A good measure is whether or not the credit hours earned transfer to one of the real universities in the state like asu, nau, or u of a. A prospective student would be much better served by attending a community college such as pima cc, mesa cc, Rio salado cc, or any one of the Maricopa community colleges, credits from those institutions are taught up to a certain standard and therefore the classes taken there count at a real university. Another point is grand canyon accepts up to 90transfer credits hours out of a total of 120 for most programs to earn a "degree." Most real universities will accept much fewer. Also it is way more expensive than a community college. It is institutions like this which support the argument of not going to college, and show how college can Be a waste of money.
PixiDustr
Active Member
I never said that it did.
Chronicseeker
New Member
It would be interesting to see side by side comparison with AZ med GC vs HPLC...
Like herb, the numbers will speak for themselves.
I still have some og ghost train haze #2 from the same batch I got tested with azmedtesting.