An anonymous reader has challenged me for giving a “hat tip” to online Yorktown University. Peter Wood, president-elect of the National Association of Scholars, defends the institution:

I am on the board of Yorktown, so my credibility may be perceived as having that stroke against it. However, I have no financial interest in the university.
The PBC critic lashes Yorktown for lack of library resources. How silly. Where would the library be? In Denver? The students are all over the place, including other countries. This “where is the library?” complaint can be visited on any on-line college.
Well enough. But on-line colleges aren’t research universities or even undergraduate colleges in the traditional sense. But as a quondam university librarian (Master’s degree from Rutgers, 1997), I know full well that most college libraries function mainly as study halls, and for most students “research” is what they do online.
In short, the absence of library isn’t much of an indicator one way or the other about the intellectual seriousness of a place. Yorktown stands out—conspicuously—as one of the online ventures that does take itself seriously as an intellectual venture. The courses have real substance, and the governing philosophy is old-time pedagogy, pro-western civilization in support of America’s founding freedoms. And all of this, accomplished at a respectably high level.