The Dallas Morning News
Cedar Valley College in Lancaster welcomes a guest speaker Friday on a topic that's hardly controversial: the importance of leadership.
What's stirring debate are the credentials of the speaker, a tipster told me.
Dr. Eric Gravenberg has spent many years working in student recruitment and enrollment, mostly at campuses in California. He coordinates the African American Male Initiative, a national effort to help black men succeed in college.
But his degrees include a PhD in educational administration from Columbus University, which is not accredited by any federally recognized agency. This CBS story from 2004 describes Columbus as "a diploma mill Louisiana shut down." Since then it has relocated to Mississippi and then Alabama.
