WASC Senior operates as a 501 (c)(3) with apparent oversight from the US Dept of Education, with the lofty goals of accredidating and investigating the California State University 23-campuses and the University of California system (amongst others). WASC Senior is required under the Secretary of State & IRS to ensure the public that its college system is fully accredidated, investigate accedidation issues, compliance with complaint procedures and act as independent enity free of bias and corruption.
Four California State University presidents making $500,000+ total pkg also sit as WASC Senior Commissioners having the dual role of operating their campuses and overseeing the external operation of their campuses as an independent policing agency. Who are these overpaid president gatekeepers: Jeffrey Armstrong, President, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Jeffrey Armstrong started his tenure as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's; William Covino, President of California State University, Los Angeles, is a veteran of the Cal State system; Mildred García is President of California State University, Fullerton, the fourth largest university in the state. Dianne F. Harrison began her appointment as President of California State University, Northridge in June 2012; & Janna Bersi, Professor of Graduate Education in the College of Education, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH).
The WASC Senior board's criminal miscondut is connected to three concealed diploma mills operating on the Cal State San Bernadino campus (see the Ripoff report on this site). We don't carelessly use the word 'criminal' here, but we have over 800 pages of documents that outline not only the diploma mills but the wreckless conduct of CSUSB & CSU public officas who obstructed established polciies and procedures under the CSU Executive Orders and the formal Grievnaces Procedures. WASC Senior is required to assure that CSU campuses have functional processes for students and faculty to file under. CSUSB's WASC Senior Liason Officer, Mr. Chen, is operating a Chinese pay to play scheme right now.
WASC Senior simple lawyered up and refuses to produce public records and account for its inactions.
WASC Senior: CPRA, Brown Act, Calif Sunshine Laws,FOIA, BagleyKeene Act,
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Commissioners
WASC Senior
Alameda, CA
Friday, 29 April 2016
Jake
CSUSB MA TESOL Candidate
10/Prince Saad bin Naif
Al Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
RE: CPRA, Brown Act, Sunshine Law, FOIA, BagleyKeene Act, SarbanesOxly Act; 2nd Request
Commissioners,
Sometimes, nonprofits forget who they are. In that spirit, please pay close attention. WASC Senior is not ‘owned’ by anyone. Instead they are ‘owned’ by the community: charted by the government to serve a public interest. The board, acting as “Commissioners” are charged with protecting the nonprofit organization’s public purpose.
CPRA, Sunshine Law, BagleyKeene Act, Brown Act
Sunshine laws affect organizations that have a significant relationship with the government. Examples are a charter school, hospital, and WASC Senior. Your funding determines whether your nonprofit is governed by sunshine laws. Receiving money from governmental entities creates a fiduciary link under which the nonprofit is acting as an extension of that municipal body. In other words, by taking money from the government, your organization essentially becomes part of the government and must follow the same rules. The 2014/15 budget indicated 3 million dollars in fees collected from public and private education institutions. In addition, the United States Department of Education, acts as an oversight agency with WASC Senior.
A body that governs a private corporation or entity is subject to the Brown Act if: (1) it is created by the elected legislative body in order to exercise authority that may lawfully be delegated by the body. Cal. Gov't Code § 54952(c).
WASC Senior: CPRA, Brown Act, Calif Sunshine Laws,FOIA, BagleyKeene Act,
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WASC Senior operates under legislative authority (as cited). WASC is also governed by state laws (exp. Title 5, CCR) and federal laws. Your bylaws dictate that California State University officials and their respective campuses will jointly hold WASC Senior accreditation and function as ‘commissioners.”
Note:Here we have WASC Senior being operated by the very public and private agencies that WASC Senior are in a position of accrediting and investigating. It becomes easier to understand why WASC Senior was unable to hold CSU & California State University, San Bernardino, accountable in the financial and academic fraud still operating through their MA TESOl and MBA programs.
CSU State Employees Acting as WASC Senior Commissioners:
●Mildred Garcia, President, California State University Fullerton.
●Jeffrey Armstrong, President, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
●Janna Bersi, Professor of Graduate Education in the College of Education, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
●Dianne F. Harrison, President of California State University, Northridge.
●Stephen Privett, S.J served as President of the University of San Francisco from 2000 to 2014.
WASC Senior: CPRA, Brown Act, Calif Sunshine Laws,FOIA, BagleyKeene Act,
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SarbanesOxley Act
The American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act of 2002, commonly known as the SarbanesOxley Act ("SarbanesOxley"), was signed into law on July 30, 2002. The Act was passed in response to several corporate scandals and was intended to rebuild public trust in the corporate sector.
Although most provisions of SarbanesOxley apply only to public companies, at least two criminal provisions apply to nonprofit organizations: provisions prohibiting retaliation against whistleblowers and prohibiting the destruction, alteration or concealment of certain documents or the impediment of investigations.
Recordkeeping:
●Section 802 of the Act makes it a crime to knowingly alter, destroy, mutilate, conceal, cover up, falsify or make a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any federal departmentor agency or any case filed under the federal bankruptcy code. Violators may be fined and/or imprisoned for up to 20 years. (emphasis added)
●Section 1102 of the Act makes it a crime to "corruptly" alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal a record, document or other object, or attempt to do so, with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding. The Act does not define the term "corruptly." Violators may be fined and/or imprisoned for up to 20 years. (emphasis added)
Under Section 802, I will argue that WASC Senior’s concealment of material facts coupled with ignoring a California Department of Justice, investigation that has been concealed, will demonstrate that WASC knowingly impeded the investigation. That WASC knew or should have known that their acts concealed allegations and materials facts that federal education dollars were being pilfered through the well documented fraud at CSUSB. And that CSUSB was and is in gross violation(s) of their recent renewed accreditation (Oct. 2015). WASC Senior’ responsibilities and accountability are wide spread, to include that WASC is regulated and monitored by the US Department of Education. . WASC was mandated to act in the public interest and protect my receipt of fraudulently gained federal education funding.
WASC Senior: CPRA, Brown Act, Calif Sunshine Laws,FOIA, BagleyKeene Act,
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Under Section 1102, I seek the documents requested as part of an official process to notify federal officials and their agents and to file federal complaints.
The continued failure to release the very specific documents cited indicates that WASC Senior is in possible violation of Sec. 802 and that continued concealment has allowed the criminal and material facts to be hidden. I was subjected to ongoing attacks, false suspension, expulsion attempt, manufactured and patently false witness testimony by selected CSUB officials, witness tampering, altering suspension hearing transcripts, and retaliated against by California State University officials and WASC Senior officials, who concurrently acted. CSU officials and WASC Senior, either before or after the facts; all parties acted in a coordinated effort to conceal, minimize, misrepresent, and alter material facts to this date; the academic fraud scheme continues at CSUSB.
Although a whistleblower procedure is not mandated for nonprofits in the Act, many commentators have recommended that nonprofits establish procedures. It make business sense to encourage individuals in the organization to come forward with a problem at its earliest, most solvable stage. An effective policy can avoid liability under the provisions discussed above. Finally, putting a procedure in place for employees to raise and address problems is healthy for the organization.
It’s now transparent through the careless and reckless acts of Brenda Barham Hill and Christopher Oberg, that WASC Senior acted to limit exposure of criminal and civil liabilities on behalf of CSU at that same time that half a dozen top CSU employees concurrently acting as WASC Senior commissioners, were overseeing Barham Hill & Oberg. That WASC Senior with impunity, abandoned their articles of incorporation, bylaws, state and federal laws, I alledge, and concealed the fraud at the same time WASC Senior was evaluating CSUSB for re accreditation.
WASC Senior: CPRA, Brown Act, Calif Sunshine Laws,FOIA, BagleyKeene Act,
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Public Records Sought (2nd request)
●All communication between WASC Senior, CSU, CSUSB and others to include accreditation communications from 2013 to 2016. This includes emails, letters, memorialized meetings and any other communication.
●Copy of all board minutes and agendas from 2013 to 2016.
●Copy of two formal grievances filed in approximately Feb. 2013, with then Provost Andrew Bodman & President of Student Services, Brian Haynes. All email communication with regard to those two grievances (this should include Sandra Vasquez’s email and President Morales) and the complete investigative findings to include that timelines were adhered to.
●Copy of the board's whistleblower protection policy (if one exists).
●Identify by name and title all WASC salaried/stipend Commissioners.
Attached Documents:
●April 14, 2014, CPRA Request.
●WASC Senior bylaws 2014.
●Summation document to the State Attorney General’s Office, dated Feb. 11, 2015. Under CSU Executive Order 1097.
●WASC Senior response letter to CPRA request, dated 26 April 2016.