Stranger than fiction: Meet the stock-photo faculty of Axact

Stock photos from Shutterstock used in profiles


News Desk May 21, 2015



George S Kirkland is portrayed as a permanent faculty member of Western Advanced Central University’s (WACU) School of Business and Management.

But Kirkland is not just a teacher. He moonlights in the world of stock-photo modeling, where his alias is ‘middle-aged businessman in suit’. He’s also an active member of the Johnsonton Community Parish Church.






Kirkland’s colleague Maria J Fleck of WACU’s School of Health Sciences appears in stock images as the ‘woman standing in front of her colleagues’. Fleck has also featured on a website Glamoz as an 82-year-old French woman who has never had any plastic surgery.


Dr Tiara Dane, an associate professor of computer studies at Greenlake University is a woman of many talents and nationalities. The ‘pretty businesswoman’ as listed in stock photos is also a recruiter for the health care management company Global Medics in Ireland. 




Gracy Allen, an MBA student at Greenlake University, is also apparently pursuing an MA in communication at Spring Arbor University as can be seen below.


Meanwhile, Nelson Bay University has two professors sharing the same name – Alice K Colbert.



The first Alice K Colbert is a ‘confident young man’ who goes by the alias Lance Redgrave, a ‘CEO/founder’ who is a client of dozens of online businesses, ranging from Web design firms to sporting goods stores. You can find this Alice on Shutterstock by searching for any of the following keywords: man, young, smiling, outdoors, urban, people, caucasian, guy, fun, day, male, arms crossed, one person, enjoying, carefree, confident, handsome, happiness, summer, standing, city, joy, happy.



The other Alice K Colbert can be found as a “beautiful happy brunette woman or businesswoman in her thirties talking on her cell phone.” She “brings more than two decades of teaching, management, and curriculum development” to her role at Nelson Bay University, which is impressive given her age. Even more impressive is that she moonlights as a representative of Clienttell, “a leading provider of automated patient appointment reminders in the healthcare service industry.”

Looking to find out more about the faculty and students with their varied and jampacked résumés, Slate tried chatting online with representatives of several Axact schools but only got the message “Please wait for a site operator to respond” for several hours. They also tried calling two Axact schools —Ford Worth High School and Headway University —but no one picked up.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 21st, 2015.

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