Related recent events include: * USSS undercover operation "Gold Seal" against operators of St. Regis University, Monrovia, Liberia, and Spokane, WA (and corruption of foreign government officials) * Explosion in internet dms offering degrees based wholly on "credit for life experience" * Increase in number of internet "degree brokers" representing various schools * Increased number of cd&t Web sites in the Richmond, va, vicinity * Creation of numerous new ams used to support the plethora of new Internet dms * Emergence of several "look-alike" organizations designed to confuse the public (e.g., ascaor; cohl; DETQj IDETC; THLC) * Arrest and conviction (or civil charges against) operators of: * LaSalle University, Man deville, LA; * Columbia State University, Métairie, LA, and San Cle...
A legislative staff analysis of Senate Bill 823 declares that during the 1980s, California acquired the reputation of being "the diploma mill capital of the world. That's not quite true. There were a couple of states, including neighboring Arizona, with worse reputations as redoubts for private, for-profit, trade and professional schools that charged big fees to students and offered little educational value. But California was right up there as a haven for diploma mills.
A recent article in USA Today caught my eye: The star of "Dinner: Impossible" on the Food Network was fired after it was found that he lied on his resume about cooking for the British royal family. The article made me wonder how many other people would blatantly lie on their resume. When I prepared my first resume, I spent hours poring over the dictionary to come up with "active words" to describe my own work experiences. I wasn't just a waitress; I was in "customer service and satisfaction." I may have exaggerated, but I wouldn't say I committed a fraud. Or did I?
I went back to school to get an MBA when I was 36 years old. It was hard to juggle classes, homework, a full-time job and family. Later in life, I thought about pursuing a Ph.D. - "Dr. Hutchinson" has a nice ring to it. By then I'd added a passion for weekend golf to my other priorities, so I decided my school days were over.
You may have heard that nine Washington State Patrol troopers are being investigated for allegedly using fraudulent "diploma mills" to qualify for better pay. Four of those, including two sergeants, work in Clark County.
Hundreds of federal workers have been reimbursed nearly $170,000 for college tuition paid to diploma mills churning out bogus degrees that look real, according to a congressional investigation described Tuesday. In some cases, the deception of the degree peddlers is obvious, such as with the organization Degrees-R-Us. But as the schemes become more sophisticated, institutions count experience in horseback riding, playing golf, pressing flowers and serving on a jury toward an unaccredited degree. Despite the comic nature of the product, the institutions have become big business. The FBI estimated that one, Columbia State University, took in $18 million in 18 months before it was shut down, about two-thirds of which was pure profit.
Turns out I was wrong when I said my editor was no rocket scientist. It took about 20 minutes - and a valid credit card - for her to complete her doctorate in aerospace engineering from Ellington University. No books, no tests, no classes - and no expertise in the subject.
Despite providing excellent opportunities for atypical learners and improved graduation rates among minorities, for-profit colleges have become synonymous with "diploma mills," thanks in large part to a determination to destroy them, evidenced by the Obama administration and its congressional allies. The federal government is positioning itself to destroy an industry that has done more for minorities and the economically disadvantaged - who often find it difficult to get admitted to and afford old-fashioned nonprofit colleges - than any act of government could hope to achieve. Enrollment in for-profit schools - such as the Art Institutes and University of Phoenix - has skyrocketed in the past 10 years, growing by 21 percent between 2008 and 2009 alone. The rise in popularity and increas...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Julian Vaughn stands 6-foot-8, boasts a high GPA and is ready to enter one of America's most prestigious basketball factories -- Virginia's Oak Hill Academy. Nobody, not even the NCAA, can convince Vaughn he's making a mistake.
In 1900 medical education as a whole was m unsatisfactory condition. A total of about 200 schools were in operation, many of which were proprietary "diploma mills," turning out thousands of poorly trained practitioners upon a helpless population. As a result of the Flexner report of 1910, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, standards were raised, the number of schools gradually reduced to seventy-seven (now seventy-nine) and affiliation with universities made almost mandatory. All of the Negro schools were substandard and closed successively until only [Howard] and Meharry remained. At the end of World War I, the conditions of these, too, was so perilous, that only the essential service they were performing in the training of Negro health personnel prevented them from being closed. Bo...
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