Take Heed
Apr 17th, 2005An online university in a P.O. Box? Find out at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Heed exhibits several signs of being a degree mill, but the state has little over it, said David Dies, executive secretary of the Wisconsin Educational Approval Board.
One flag: Heed allows students to count life experience toward program credits. Another: Its Thomas Jefferson College of Law promises law degrees, including the standard juris doctor, that can be completed in less than a year, though it also says its programs are "non-bar." A typical law program takes about three years.
Experts pointed to another sign: Some of Heed's programs are priced based on the degree and not per credit or semester. The cost of its psychoanalytic doctoral program, for instance, is listed as $10,500.
After a reporter inquired several times about the school, Heed University took its home page, www.heed.edu, off the Internet.
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