Monday, March 2, 2009

Zeroes Among Us, Ben C. Scheible


The mystery of the missing Real Estate degree.

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me,” Sir Isaac Newton. Why doesn’t TMCC or UNR offer a Real Estate Degree? Real estate, stock and people are the assets of our great country. There are hundreds of Real Estate degrees offered state and nationwide in recognition of the most important fact that under all is the land. However, neither at TMCC nor UNR, is a Real Estate degree offered. TMCC is Truckee Meadows Community College and UNR is University of Nevada, Reno.

At TMCC , the one full-time real estate instructor is one Mr. Ben C. Scheible . Mr. Ben C. Scheible is an attorney as well. Cheating is to defraud, swindle, practice deceit, or violate rules or agreements. Mr. Ben C. Scheible also has, in bold competition with TMCC, a private for profit real estate school he owns, one Ben C. Scheible Seminars . That is a prima facie conflict of interest for his duties at TMCC, and it brazenly violates his required legal ethical canons as a lawyer. Mr. Ben C. Scheible’s private real estate school is a vast benefit for Mr. Ben C. Scheible, but a serious detriment to TMCC, TMCC students, the community that TMCC, as a community college, exists solely to serve, and the taxpayers. Mr. Ben C. Scheible is in shameless breach of his required fiduciary and agency relationships with TMCC, its students and the community that his legal and ethical duties as a public employee are to serve. Mr. Ben C. Scheible has put his interests ahead of his employer, his students and his community.

Mr. Ben C. Scheible gets earns thousands of dollars more teaching as Continuing Education what he should be teaching as academic units at TMCC, but instead is teaching at Dickson Realty, the Reno-Sparks Association of Realtors, Incline Village Board of Realtors , and other private entities. Mr. Ben C. Scheible was hired and is paid to do a job. Instead, he has intentionally used it to instead divert funds into his pockets at the expense of his students, his employer, his community, and taxpayers. Mr. Ben C. Scheible is feasting at the public trough. Some of the real estate classes he was hired to teach at TMCC he has never taught. Other real estate classes have been on the TMCC schedule as Mr. Ben C. Scheible to teach, but according to Internet sites, Mr. Ben C. Scheible was elsewhere on those dates. Elsewhere, and to him, more profitable.

There is an extensive and significantly important difference between training someone with Continuing Education through a for-profit business, and educating someone in an academic environment. Carson’s City’s Western Nevada College has had a long-standing successful and highly thought of Real Estate degree program .

TMCC students have reacted to these matters in several ways via e-mails and calls to the TMCC administration. In vain, they have repeatedly begged, pleaded and petitioned for a TMCC Real Estate degree. They have done so for years. They have repeatedly asked why they shouldn’t get two bangs for their buck like other schools where academic credit and State pre-licensing credit is earned in one class.

Then Chair Steven Bale reported to Dean Hornshaw. Chair Steve Bale had requested, as Mr. Ben C. Scheible’s Chair of the department, that Mr. Ben C. Scheible prepare a TMCC Real Estate degree curriculum proposal. When Mr. Ben C. Scheible failed to present that requested proposed curriculum for a TMCC real estate degree, other real estate teachers stepped up to the plate and did. Mr. Ben C. Scheible, and Dean of the TMCC Business Department, Susan Hornshaw, quashed that. Chair Steve Bale lost his position as Chair the same time Mr. Scheible and Dean Susan Hornhaw quashed the Real Estate degree. Why did all these self-serving shenanigans happen?

I wonder if that answer is bold avarice as records show that Mr. Ben C. Scheible makes way more money through his private real estate school than he would by teaching the same classes at TMCC. Students have proposed that Mr. Scheible and Dean Susan Hornshaw should be removed from their posts.

Mr. Ben C. Scheible should pay back to TMCC what he has directed into his pockets that would have gone into TMCC’s. Real estate students want Dr. Steve Bale to be the Dean. Students want that TMCC should have a Real Estate degree program run by someone with a Real Estate degree. Something at one time according to school records, they did have, with a well-respected and liked professor, one Professor Alexandra. Unfortunately, she has been MIA since last summer due to serious health reasons, according to the rumor mill. Students want a new Dean, Dr. Bale, and a new head of the real estate program. Between them, TMCC will have the Real Estate degree they should, and the students and the community will be served as they should.

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