Kurt Linberg, Capella University, Caught Lying Minneapolis Minnesota

In a signed declaration, Kurt Linberg, one of Capella University's Executive Directors (Capella-speak for Dean) stated that Capella University relied upon the [faulty] decision of a Federal law enforcement agency (which conducted a shoddy investigation into the illegal actions of the university) before he helped to throw a student our of their school without any due process.

Not only that but, in addition to abusing and subsequently lying to Federal law enforcement agencies about that matter, Kurt Linberg then admitted in a declaration signed under penalty of perjury that,

'Kurt Linberg stated - 'There was an internal meeting [at Capella University] to determine what we should do with communicating these results to [the student]. The -- and what we decided to do was not communicate until we officially had the OCR [United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights] report findings back to us.'

The student's attorney then asked Linberg if that - 'Has it ever been communicated to him [the student], as far as you know?'

Kurt Linberg replied - 'I don't know.'

This may be found here:

http://www.capellafacts.org/images/2007_Linberg_Deposition.pdf

Clearly, Linberg and Capella based their acts of retaliation against a student on an incompetent investigation by OCR, but also after they thought they could get away with their refusal to provide that student with any due process. Linberg has now been caught in his own lies as a result of a series of e-mails between Kurt Linberg and other Capella employees (which Capella refused to turn over to that student, along with countless other records required under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act [FERPA]) which has just been discovered. There is no question that Linberg not only KNEW that the student had been had disenrolled (Capella-speak for expelled) but that the student was NEVER to be told about Capella's vile actions. One of those e-mails states:

'From: Ragozzino, Kris [Kris Ragozzino]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:24 PM
To: Kerns, Colin [Colin Kerns]; Thompson, Joanne [Joanne Thompson]
Cc: Linberg, Kurt [Kurt Linberg]
Subject: FW: Disenrollment

Please update this learner's record so that the disenrollment date is 1-3-05 as stated in Kurt's email below. The learner should NOT be notified regarding this change in disenrollment. The reason should be 'Suspended' and a note should be added in the Terminate Student Remarks notes field next to the withdrawal/separation date (in the drill down) stating Reason: Failure to adhere to the conditions established post academic suspension.

Thanks [Kris Ragozzino]

This e-mail may be viewed here:

http://www.capellafacts.org/images/2005_01_18.pdf

Due to Capella University's ongoing intentional refusal to abide by FERPA, the United States Department of Education, Family Policy Compliance Office has already found Capella in violation, on TEN COUNTS, for their failure to abide by that Federal law, and Capella University remains under investigation, nearly four years after the initial FERPA request was made, for their continuing refusal to abide by the law. Under FERPA, all schools have just forty-five days to produce records demanded under that Act. Four YEARS later, Capella still won't comply. BTW, Capella's very own vice chairman, external university initiatives and former President, Michael Offerman was personally notified about Capella's ongoing FERPA violations and, even though Offerman bragged, at press conference at the National Press Club, given as part of his grossly insincere Transparency by Design initiative, that his school has the courage to do the right thing, the fact remains Offerman is not only a liar but that Capella University continues to refuse to abide by Federal laws.

Finally, it needs to be mentioned that many of Capella's attorneys, including but not necessarily limited to: Greg Thom (Capella's Chief Counsel and Congressional Lobbyist), Priscilla McNulty (one of Greg Thom's underlings), along with two attorneys from the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath, Henry Christian L'Orange (aka, H. Christian L'Orange and Chris L'Orange) and Stella Fey Epling have lied about Capella's refusal to abide by FERPA to Federal law enforcement agencies and/or in signed declarations (again, submitted under penalty of perjury) to Federal Courts.

Capella university liars
Anytown, Minnesota
U.S.A.