Complaint Review: School of Dentistry - All Universities - Minneapolis Minnesota

This is fantastic news. More stories on the severe harassment and retaliation against students by bigots in higher education are greatly needed. There is currently another case in the Federal Court system against for-profit Capella University where a student was just three classes away from completing a second master's degree and had earned a 4.0 in all coursework applicable to that degree. When that student started to study the incompetent design and implementation of WebCT, which Capella uses for their fully-online programs, the school retaliated against him by locking him out of all courses and literally denying him all due process. Every one of that student's instructors had praised him for his exemplary work, which included his studies on the impact that WebCT had upon students with disabilities. At the same time, Capella's then-president (who has since been "promoted" to Vice Chairman of the Capella Education Company), issued a statement to all students stating that WebCT had been "universally praised for being exceptionally user-friendly and intuitive, and providing new and useful online tools" during a study he claims was conducted. Capella has refused to release that study so that the public can see what was really determined and, in fact, all known information about the bogus study indicate that Michael Offerman is a liar. Capella University has also refused to acknowledge the fact that the instructor at the core of the current lawsuit is Diane Stottlemyer, who literally bought and used fake degrees purchased from a known diploma mill, Lacrosse University. Capella University knew that Stottlemyer was using fake degrees and even permitted one of them be listed in their 2001 catalog. As part of Capella's retaliation against the student, they intentionally moved the student into Stottlemyer's class and, even though Stottlemyer wrote only 4 incomplete sentences (none of which were critical of the student) before the quarter began, the student was thrown out of Capella almost two weeks into the class. During the first trial (which was prematurely dismissed on the absurd contention that there was a lack of evidence, Capella University refused to produce a single instructor or student from any of the plaintiff's classes (nor have they ever produced even the slightest evidence that suggests that the student was anything less than one who was highly regarded by his instructors). Capella University has, in fact, consistently lied and fabricated facts in order to prevent information from being produced. For the past four and a half years, Capella University and their shysters have engaged on a smear campaign against that same student claiming he was disruptive and verbally abusive obviously, in complete contrast to what his instructors really thought of him. In order to hide evidence and obstruct justice, Capella University has also intentionally violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) which is enforced by the United States Department of Education, Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO). Two shysters from Drinker Biddle & Reath, Chris L'Orange and Stella Fey Epling, have also lied about the production of these records and have also obstructed justice by doing so. FERPA requires that schools that receive Federal moneys provide full access to all education records within 45 days of the initial request. Four and a half years later, Capella University still refuses to produce all of those records even though the FPCO found ten violations by Capella more than a year ago (September 2007). To date, Capella has refused to abide by the FPCO's ruling. In addition to the blatant lies being propagated by for-profit Capella University, their attorneys (including the secretary of the Board of Directors, Greg Thom, who also serves as Capella's General Counsel and Priscilla McNulty), both of whom have also engaged in lying to Federal Law Enforcement agencies, at least one of Capella's lying attorneys is currently under investigation by the Bar Association for lying and the refusal to produce evidence. In addition, H. Christian L'Orange and a paralegal who works for Drinker Biddle & Reath, Karen L. Thro, have just been reported to a Federal Law Enforcement Agency for, once again, raping the privacy of Capella students (none of whom were involved in the pending lawsuits) by publically disclosing their names, education records, and even information about their employers. Capella University and their unethical shysters will stop at nothing in engage in their sleazy smear campaign to stop the public from knowing the truth about Capella University. More exposure needs to be given to corrupt schools, such as for-profit Capella University, that retaliate against students with disabilities, denies these same students all due process, refuses to produce evidence in direct defiance of Federal law, and hires incompetent charlatans like Diane Stottlemyer (who is still employed by Capella).