UoPeople degrees not accepted in Belgium

[ghostlypast]

So, the very first statement in this thread is copypasta from reddit.

Take the next step. I'll give you a tip. The person behind the Selvaggia Lucarelli Blog site posted a comment in that Reddit thread.

The source for question's initial post was a thread on Reddit titled, "Uopeople degree not accepted in Belgium."

I raised the idea that the person behind the Selvaggia Lucarelli Blog was active in that thread. I made sure to utilize an appropriate tool before make my post because I knew it would possibly spark a response. Spark a response it did.

The thread on Reddit started on 7 Jan 2026. Question made his post here on 12 Jan 2026. The person in question was the only comment in the Reddit thread for 12 Jan 2026, now 17 days ago. My comment was posted on 27 Jan 2026. Question responded to this thread today, 30 Jan 2026. As of today, the Reddit post is also gone.

The Reddit post said, "It's irrelevant: University of Antwerp does not recognize the University of the People, that's it."

As I noted, I utilized an appropriate tool. I made sure to preserve the comment for this case.

• The post archive: https://archive.ph/RZyRo
  
• The profile archive from three days ago: https://archive.ph/BrstV
  
• The profile archive from today showing the absence of that post: https://archive.ph/YhgmH
  

[ghostlypast]

You're fighting a pointless battle against someone you're obsessed with who doesn't give you the time of day.

If it was a pointless battle, why did he delete the post on Reddit?

You admit yourself that you've been chasing them for ten years

You misread. I haven't been chasing this person for ten years. Rather, he has been attacking the university for 10+ years.

wasting a massive amount of time instead of dealing with the mental obsessions you've described in your posts, which are entirely dedicated to this one person rather than the university topics we discuss here.

Projection.

That being said, the person you're describing seems extremely competent in their field, with top-tier international training including studies at MIT.

Oh, wait. Wait, wait! I know this one!

This is about the "Master in Statistics and Data Science", right?

There's a bit of problem here though.

I don't see a master's degree in "Statistics and Data Science" on the MIT website. They offer an interdisciplinary master's degree in Statistics and one in Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science, but not one specifically in Statistics and Data Science. So what gives?

If we pull up a higher resolution version of the consulate letter, there is something amiss. We can see digital artifacts from lossy compression around the seal in the corner, the header, the date, and the footer region. Yet, there are none around the body text. Why is everything except for the body text showing digital artifacts?

Is it fake? Nah, he wouldn't fake it, would he?

Let's get political for a moment. There was a political campaign in the 2018 Italian General Election for Free Flights to Italy.

Il Post asked, "Is this party a scam?"

On January 28, Macario filed with the offices of the Court of Appeal of Lazio the documents to present his list, including the signatures collected and the “declaration of transparency” (you can see here), that is, the document that indicates him and his mother as president and vice president of the political movement. The Post shows that the “transparency statement” has been falsified and contains claims to be doubted.

The article includes a link to this document. And continues.

The notary Luigi D’Alessandro, whose signature and notary seal appear at the bottom of the document, told the Post that he had never signed that document and never had affixed his seal. D’Alessandro said that a seal can be easily reproduced from any document produced by the study: “you scan and make copy and paste”.

Wait, so he has created fake documents before? It's almost like he just makes stuff up. Sound like anyone else we know here?

In fact, there were enough suspicions around the party that Selvaggia Lucarelli dug into his claims and reported them in Rolling Stone Italia. One of those claims was about a degree from MIT. For which, Lucarelli provided a letter claiming that MIT had "no record of student attendance or degrees award" for that person.

MIT does offer a MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science through edX. Something he proudly listed on his website at one point. So let's return to your point.

You said he is "extremely competent in [his] field, with top-tier international training including studies at MIT." I think you might be trying to get a little too much mileage out of that MicroMasters there.

He even managed to play you, making you (and the University of the People) believe he graduated from "Universal Life Church" and thus providing irrefutable proof that the University of the People is a total joke, having "hired" him as a professor because of the "degree" from the "Universal Life Church"

Played me? He proudly presented a photo of his diploma from ULC and claimed to have submitted a dissertation on Pascal on his personal website.

Let's give UoPeople a little credit. I seriously doubt they would have accepted a ULC degree on a CV. It's more likely he listed the MIT and Princeton degrees that Lucarelli covers.

That said, I definitely believe that he was "Best Italian MIT Alumnus in 2023." I believe that as much as I believe that he was the honorary consul for Panama at a non-existent consulate and a knight.

Your incredible "tools" are nothing more than everyday sites like Google or Archive. Even a child knows how to use them. Aren't you embarrassed to come here and brag about using Google and Archive?

Nope, not embarrassed. Google and Archive Today are merely tools. The skill is in how they're used.

Getting back to the issue of WASC accreditation, why do you keep changing the subject and refusing to discuss the actual reasons why the degree from the University of the People continues to be rejected by many international universities?

I, along with others, have already pointed out how ridiculous your claims related to UoPeople are.

Since you can't figure it out on your own, I'll give you the answer: American accreditation (including WASC) does not constitute any legal guarantee of international recognition, and the evaluation of the degree's quality is left to each individual university.

This is a truism. You're saying something that is obviously true, but something which adds nothing meaningful.

[question]

I have no idea who's deleting my posts.

Also, you've got the wrong person. I couldn't care less about your rants: I'm here to talk about the University of the People

I have no idea who this "Lucarelli" character is, yet you keep bringing him up over and over. Why should we even care? According to the site you linked, she is a person who drove a woman to suicide.

Played me? He proudly presented a photo of his diploma from ULC and claimed to have submitted a dissertation on Pascal on his personal website.

Yes, and you fell for it However, the bigger issue is that University of the People fell for it as well; they seem all too eager to recruit unqualified people willing to work for pennies.

---

So, let's reconstruct the story you're telling. Someone shows up at University of the People claiming to have a degree from the Universal Life Church, and University of the People hires them right away to work for free. Then, University of the People fires them. Even if we take your word for it (and it could all be made up) all this proves is what a massive joke University of the People really is

---

On top of all this, these workers are effectively working under the table, which is a very serious matter.

[question]

"If we pull up a higher resolution version of the consulate letter, there is something amiss. We can see digital artifacts from lossy compression around the seal in the corner, the header, the date, and the footer region. Yet, there are none around the body text. Why is everything except for the body text showing digital artifacts?
Is it fake? Nah, he wouldn't fake it, would he?"


Then explain one thing to me: if that degree is fake, why would someone publicly display a forged document?
If it is indeed forged, proving it would be straightforward: one would simply need to contact the relevant authorities.

The fact that "Lucarelli", "Post" or whoever else said they thought it was fake doesn't mean a thing. And more importantly, who are these people?

But the funniest part is that you're saying, basically, all these important documents (including the one from MIT) are fake, while the only real one would be from the Universal Life Church So we're back to the same point: the University of the People hires people who have degrees from the Universal Life Church.

[ghostlypast]

Also, you've got the wrong person.

I've got the right person. It's because you're predictable. That's precisely why I archived the post on Reddit before making a post here.

I couldn't care less about your rants: I'm here to talk about the University of the People

You couldn't care less, yet you continue to respond.

I have no idea who this "Lucarelli" character is, yet you keep bringing him up over and over. Why should we even care? According to the site you linked, she is a person who drove a woman to suicide.

The site linked, your site, is not a reliable source. It engages in character assassination on all kinds of people.

Played me? He proudly presented a photo of his diploma from ULC and claimed to have submitted a dissertation on Pascal on his personal website.

Yes, and you fell for it

Right...

However, the bigger issue is that University of the People fell for it as well; they seem all too eager to recruit unqualified people willing to work for pennies.

---

So, let's reconstruct the story you're telling. Someone shows up at University of the People claiming to have a degree from the Universal Life Church, and University of the People hires them right away to work for free.

Reading comprehension is important. Your recasting is not what I said. This is what I said.

Let's give UoPeople a little credit. I seriously doubt they would have accepted a ULC degree on a CV. It's more likely he listed the MIT and Princeton degrees that Lucarelli covers.

But, you should tell us. What did you put on there when you applied?

Then, University of the People fires them. Even if we take your word for it (and it could all be made up) all this proves is what a massive joke University of the People really is

Let's assume that you had applied with a ULC degree on your CV. Let's assume they hired you "to work for free." Let's also assume that they then fired you for the ULC degree. They absolutely failed at that point. But does it follow that the university is, as in is presently, a massive joke? No. Does it follow that the university was a massive joke at that time? No. It just means their process failed and needed improvement.

So, no, it doesn't "prove" what you claim it proves.

On top of all this, these workers are effectively working under the table, which is a very serious matter.

What evidence do you have that the employees and instructors are "working under the table?"

---

Then explain one thing to me: if that degree is fake, why would someone publicly display a forged document?

Giuseppe Macario is desperate to be recognized. He has a long history of promoting himself online. He has a long history of creating fake articles and fake websites to promote himself. He's spent more than a decade trying to promote himself on Wikipedia.

Would you like the receipts? I will happily provide them.

If it is indeed forged, proving it would be straightforward: one would simply need to contact the relevant authorities.

The fact that "Lucarelli", "Post" or whoever else said they thought it was fake doesn't mean a thing. And more importantly, who are these people?

Fortunately, Lucarelli presented a letter from MIT that did just this.

I'll go ahead and quote the letter so that Google picks it up.

The Register's Office has conducted a diligent search of our academic records and found that there is no record of student attendance or degrees awarded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for:

Name: Giuseppe Macario

Our records include all students who have registered for, completed, and received grades for at least one major academic term, 1865-present. We do not have records of individuals who participate in any experience that does not involve them registering as actual MIT students, with the associated tuition fees. This could include two-week seminar programs, post-doctoral experiences, online coursework, or off-campus experiences that have other kinds of MIT affiliations. Note that MIT does not offer academic credit for online experiences, nor is it possible to earn an MIT degree from any of the aforementioned types of experiences.

We can always put in a new request for the information. Though, I'm sure it'll return much the same as the form letter above.

But the funniest part is that you're saying, basically, all these important documents (including the one from MIT) are fake, while the only real one would be from the Universal Life Church So we're back to the same point: the University of the People hires people who have degrees from the Universal Life Church.

Twisting my words again.

We have evidence that Giuseppe Macario does not have a master's degree from MIT. We have evidence that he has a MicroMasters or two, earned via edX, and which would not show up in an official MIT records search.

We also have evidence that he presented a degree from Universal Life Church. And given that one only needs to pay a small fee to get an honorary doctorate from them, it's not at all surprising that he has one. It fits right in with his behavior.

By the way, let me know if you want those receipts from above. I'll happily provide them.

[wow]

I hate that the UoPeople subforum is being treated like a trashbasket for Question's rants, but am thankful to ghostlypast for keeping on fighting the good fight.

[ghostlypast]

I hate that the UoPeople subforum is being treated like a trashbasket for Question's rants, but am thankful to ghostlypast for keeping on fighting the good fight.

Thanks, mate.

[TINASAM]

It is really a drain for this dumpster fire that keeps being relit every time question has a break in between their meds.
I sincerely do not know why they are allowed here when they have zero value to the community.

[wow]

It is really a drain for this dumpster fire that keeps being relit every time question has a break in between their meds.
I sincerely do not know why they are allowed here when they have zero value to the community.

Same here. Or at least move the posts to off-topic or a new subsubforum we can call "forum for posts by people with relentless agendas against a specific institution that nobody else wants to read about."

[SteveFoerster]

I hate that the UoPeople subforum is being treated like a trashbasket for Question's rants, but am thankful to ghostlypast for keeping on fighting the good fight.

Thanks, mate.

Indeed, you have a lot of patience considering that every thread about University of the People here has become a living example of Brandolini's Law.