8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (3)
#23193785 at 2025-06-17 17:16:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28281: WARS and Rumors of War ~ BE BEST TUESDAY CountDown Edition
PROF. Garrett: California community colleges are playgrounds for fraud and failure
One-third of applicants to the California Community College system may have been fabricated identities used to harvest over $13 million in federal funds and state aid. That's not a glitch. That's a policy failure.
Matthew Garrett | Associate Editor April 16, 2025, 5:00 am ET
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin orchestrated a grand tour of Crimea for the Russian Empress Catherine the Great, lining the route with fake villages and staged scenes to create the illusion of prosperity in newly conquered lands.
Today, California's community colleges do much the same-propped up by tax dollars, driven by inflated metrics, and desperate to project credibility. In a determined bid to showcase success, the system has become a playground for fraud-more focused on gaming state incentives than educating students.
In December2023, the National Review revealed that fraudsters had created hundreds of thousands of fake student accounts to siphon off financial aid from California's community college system. Yet somehow, state administrators dodged all accountability. In the months since, the scope of fraud has only become more alarming.
Now a congressional coalition led by Rep. Young Kim is drawing overdue attention to the crisis. Data suggests that fully one-third of applicants to the California Community College system last year may have been fabricated identities used to harvest over $13 million in federal funds and state aid. That's not a glitch.That's a policy failure on an industrial scale.
How did this happen?
California's community colleges long operated on a flawed funding modelthat rewarded enrollment over outcomes and emphasized inclusion over accountability.Most students pay little or nothing, thanks to the Board of Governors tuition waiver, while federal Pell Grant support doles== out thousands more per student.
That may sound noble-until you realize no one is checking whether those students attend class or even exist.
Many hardworking students depend on these supports-but others candidly admit they enroll solely for the aid money. A student once told me he used the funds for his Vegas trip each semester. Despite such abuse, colleges made no effort to correct the system or hold anyone accountable.Why would they? As long as someone enrolled, classes appeared full, administrators looked successful, and the institution got paid.
To its credit, California partially restructured college funding to reward degree and certificate completion-but it created new problems in the process.
-Self-reported success now drives grade inflationand the creation ofmeaningless certificates that trigger extra payouts.
- Campuses are furtherincentivized to enroll students who are incarcerated, illegal immigrants, rural, and low income.
- In some cases, courses are needlessly relocated to rural satellite campuses-not to serve students now forced to commute,but to maximize funding streams tied to geography.
- The result is a system more focused on funding metrics than meaningful education.
Fraud and abuse are only the most visible symptoms of a deeper problem:California's community college system has become untethered from academic seriousness and basic oversight.The core mission-educating and empowering students-has been replaced by a relentless obsession with manipulating metrics.
Instead of focusing on quality,the state is doubling down on quantity. In 2023, newly appointed Chancellor Sonya Christian announced a plan to enroll every California ninth grader in college courses. Her Vision 2030 initiative claims this agenda is about equity,but it seems more like a scheme to capture additional funding by enrolling students who are academically and developmentally unprepared.
California has built a nanny-state model of education-one that prioritizes equity over achievement and profits over pupils. The greatest victims are the students who actually want to learn but are trapped in a hollow system-a modern Potemkin village-where surface-level metrics and favored demographics prop up the illusion of success.
If California wants to salvage its community colleges, it must stop throwing money at a system that measures success by how many names appear on a spreadsheet. Funding should follow genuine engagement-attendance, progress, completion-and reflect real educational outcomes, not inflated metrics or manufactured credentials. Institutions must be judged by whether they elevate students, not how well they manipulate funding formulas.
Because right now, the only thing California's community college system is teaching... is how to game the system.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-Garrett-california-community-colleges-playgrounds-fraud-failure-/27842
#23012809 at 2025-05-09 15:10:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28081: TGIF Movie Credits: Supremes Overrule small Judges Edition
Inactivation of Army's only active-duty information operations command
May 8, 2025
Army to create new Theater Information Advantage Detachments
By Staff Sgt. Matthew Garrett, U.S. Army Cyber Command, and Maj. Ally Raposa, 1st IO Command
FORT BELVOIR, Va. - After more than two decades of supporting the mission in the information advantage domain, the U.S. Army's 1st Information Operations Command (1st IO) officially cased its colors today in an inactivation ceremony here in the Thurman Auditorium at Humphrey Hall, May 8.
https://www.army.mil/article/285402
#21328099 at 2024-07-31 19:13:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26138: TRUMP Speaks to Black Journalists at Convention in Chicago Edition
Community College Professor Disciplined For Criticizing DEI Receives Multi-Million Dollar Settlement
Matthew Garrett, who previously taught at Bakersfield College, was fired last year following allegations of racial discrimination - which The Daily Wire proved were untrue. He and the school have now agreed to a $2.4 million settlement, The College Fix reported.
Garrett will receive $2,245,480 spread out over the next 20 years through monthly payments - which amounts to just over $9,000 a month. He will also receive an immediate one-time payment of $154,520 as "compensation for back wages and medical benefits since [his] dismissal," the settlement agreement says.
For his part, Garrett agreed to resign from his position with the Kern Community College District, and administrators for the KCCD will withdraw and seal any accusations against him regarding "unprofessional conduct."
https://www.cuzzblue.com/2024/07/community-college-professor-disciplined.html