Why have some websites and press called Columbia Pacific University a degree mill?
Facts about Columbia Pacific University have been twisted out of context by some self-serving website owners who are trying to increase their website traffic. Other detractors have included media who do not do their homework and appear to prefer yellow journalism than real full reporting; they include the San Diego Union Tribune, AOL, and USA Today. There seems to have been so many lies, distortions, etc. spread by these interests about CPU that only an idiot would believe it all. These “reporters” and website owners often select only facts and rhetoric that meet their own agenda. They often regurgitate each others ill-formed stories, making themselves the news. As communications guru Marshall McLuhan stated ‘the medium is often the message’. Some of their accusations are in fact false and libelous to CPU alumni. CPU was a good alternative institution which after twenty years of operation, failed to change with newly implemented and constraining state regulations. Acting upon legal adv
