Bayo Adeyinka wrote: Buruji Kashamu and that PhD Honourary Award By Cambridge Graduate University Written By Bayo Adeyinka But I had many questions buzzing in my head. What kind of American University will come down to Nigeria to award a politician PhD in Humanities? Why will the President of the University come personally instead of an African representative like the practice usually is? Why was the award conferred in Lagos and not the US? All these made me decide to dig a little deeper and investigate about Cambridge Graduate University. So ensure you sit properly as what I found out will shock you. Cambridge Graduate University is touted as the first global campus university and the University is located at One Broadway, 14th Floor, Cambridge MA 02142 ,USA. The first shocker is that that building located at One Broadway is a popular high rise called Cambridge Innovation Centre (CIC) and houses over 500 companies- most of them start-ups. That building housed Google a few years ago. It is the 14th floor that allegedly headquarters one of American Universities. How did I find out? Just google what kind of building is 14th Floor Cambridge MA 02142 , USA. The question is what sort of reputable University is lumped together with about 500 other start-up companies in the same building? And if that does not cause you to raise your eyebrows, then consider this. Is the University accredited by any American accrediting organization? Cambridge Graduate University is accredited by IAO (International Accreditation Organization) as shown on her website new1.cguedu/ about. However, all American accrediting organizations are recognized by either the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or the United States Department of Education. Unfortunately, in this case, IAO is not recognized by either. You will find the name of IAO clearly listed as part of unrecognized higher education accreditation organizations in this Wikipedia document en.m.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/ List_of_unrecogn ized_higher_edu cation_accredit ation_organizat ions. This particular document reads in part Many, but not all, of the entities in the list below are considered to be fraudulent accreditation mills that were set up to help diploma mills lure students and whose accreditationhas no legal or academic value. Some diploma and degree mills have played a role in creating these accrediting bodies as well. These diploma and degree mills may further confuse matters by claiming to consider work history, professional education, previous learning and may even require the submission of a dissertation or thesis in order to give an added appearance of legitimacy. To further confirm this assertion, I also went through a list of all about 114 colleges and Universities in Massachusetts and Cambridge Graduate University was not one of them ( see en.m.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/ List_of_colleges _and_universiti es_in_Massachus etts). Let me also point out that you should not confuse Cambridge Graduate University with Cambridge College or any of the 2 universities located in Cambridge, USA (Harvard and MIT). So, irrespective of the gold status IAO accreditation claimed by the Cambridge Graduate University, it is not a recognized university in the United States. Furthermore, I stumbled on another document which punched holes in the claims of CGU. The document claimed among others that CGU wrongly included the names of some reputable professors as faculty members without seeking their permission. Another curious issue raised by the document was the fact that the students of the University are pooled from Saudi Arabia, India and West African nations. In the document, CGU was described as crude, ill-constructedand poorly conceived pursuit of raw money.” You can access the document titled Startup Universitys Phantom Faculty here https:// insidehigher ed/news/ 2012/10/19/ questions-about- faculty-list-ne w-university. Read the full article here bayoadeyinka / bayoadeyinka/ index.php/ bloghome/entry/ buruji- kashamu-a nd-that-phd-hon ourary-award-by -cambridge-grad uate-university -written- by-bay o-adeyinka —
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