Has anyone graduated from Ashford University, IA?
Ashford University is an example of a failing non-profit school that was bought solely for its regional accreditation and turned into a for-profit school. Regional accreditors may soon stop this practice and force newly-bought universities to re-accredit. [From Wiki] "In May 2008, The US Department of Educations Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit services division commenced a compliance audit of Ashford University covering the period March 10, 2005, through June 30, 2009. The OIG indicated it is considering audit findings in the following areas: compensation policies and practices relating to enrollment advisors; calculation of returns of Title IV program funds; timeliness of returns of Title IV program funds; student authorizations to retain credit balances; disbursements of unearned Title IV program funds; and maintenance of supporting documentation for students' leaves of absence. Bridgepoint Education Inc., a for- profit provider of college classes, fell the most in almost five months in New York trading after saying a government audit asserts the company misused federal student aid."
Can an employer ask you for proof of death to take bereavement pay? My mother-in-law just passed. Is this something I can take to Human Resources to resolve? They are not doing a memorial. It was her wish. I refuse to get her death certificate.
A request for an employee to provide a death certificate to support ber. leave is extremely unusual in my experience, but is a condition a private employer can legally impose.I suspect they are doing this because of prior fraudulent ber. leaves and they are simply applying this new prevention rule equally across the company.Or possibly, your excused absenteeism rate is outside the norm (often any more than 10 days is a yellow flag). If that is the case with you, you now may know the reason for the request, but the action needed on your part is not changed.You can ask HR if they will accept alternate (easier to obtain) proof such as a published obituary that links you to the deceased. If the death certificate is the only acceptable proof, ask if they will accept a photocopy, which would likely be less burdensome than a notarized copy.I’m on a limb here, but if excess absenteeism IS in play and some of that is potentially fraudulent (eg sick time when you were not sick), I recommend you skip the ber. time off and focus on improved attendance. If the yellow flag becomes a red flag, you may find yourself a target of an investigation with private detectives, videos, and the whole nine yards, as well as risk of loosing your job and criminal prosecution. Could completely ruin your life. If this is not the case, then my apologies for even considering it.
Liberalism? Conservative? What do these really mean?
Wow...good job! Pretty much sums it up and yeah...prepare to be attacked with namecalling. I'm sure they are on their way!
How does auditing look on a college transcript?
It depends on what you want to do after college. It will probably look ok to employers unless you want to get a political science/sociology job, but grad schools won't like it too much. Conveying to people that you were interested but didn't have the time is not really something you want to do--they'll probably start thinking you get easily distracted. I think the same goes for pass/fail, but it will probably look a little better to take things pass/fail if you can. That way, you can actually get credit for taking the class. Taking something audit just means you were there, but it shouldn't really count as credit.