Adam Smith University

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Adam Smith University is a private distance learning university founded in 1991 by Donald Grunewald, who is still its president.<ref name="AdamU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Grunewald was president of Mercy College between 1972 and 1984.

History

Adam Smith's current American mailing address is a private mailbox in Garapan on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth.<ref name="AdamU" /> Adam Smith University asserts the establishment of a French unit called École Supérieure Universitaire Adam Smith, which offers academic degrees for work experience.<ref>École Supérieure Universitaire Adam Smith Template:Webarchive (page on the Adam Smith University website; accessed August 23, 2007)</ref>

Accreditation

Adam Smith University was accredited by the Liberian Ministry of Education since 1995, well before the most recent conflicts, and was accredited as a result of an act of the Liberian legislature.<ref name="AdamU" /><ref name="libac">Accreditation of Adam Smith University of America Retrieved March 31, 2023</ref> The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board identifies the institution as operating from Liberia and Saipan, but states that it has "no degree-granting authority from Liberia or Saipan."<ref name=thecb>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=txhecb>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link[1]Template:Dead link</ref>

Criticism

Steve Levicoff referred to Adam Smith University as a degree mill, and he noted that it operated in Louisiana due to the absence of laws regulating the granting of degrees.<ref>Steve Levicoff. Name It and Frame It?. (3rd edition) Institute on Religion and Law. 1993 (page 111) ASIN B0006F1PCQ</ref> Adam Smith University and Columbia State University have the same address, which is "likely a mail forwarding address".<ref>Steve Levicoff. Name It and Frame It?. (3rd edition) Institute on Religion and Law. 1993 (page 111 and 119) ASIN B0006F1PCQ</ref>

Other critics have described Adam Smith University as a "diploma mill". Alan Contreras from the Oregon State Office of Degree Authorization (ODA), an agency of that state's government, called Adam Smith "a diploma mill with a long and unattractive history" in an article<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> written in a personal capacity.

External links

• Adam Smith University Official site
• Bloomberg
• New York Times