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The U.S. Government Accountability Office investigations revealed the relative ease with which a diploma mill can be created and bogus degrees obtained. [51] Records obtained from schools and agencies likely understate the extent to which the federal government has paid for degrees from diploma mills and other unaccredited schools.
A diploma mill or degree mill is a business that sells illegitimate diplomas or academic degrees, respectively. [1] [2] The term diploma mill is also used pejoratively to describe any educational institution with low standards for admission and graduation, low career placement rate, or low average starting salaries of its graduates.
Diploma Mills: Degrees of Fraud by David Wood Stewart and Henry A. Spille. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Company 1988. Abstract, Education Resources Information Center; Degree Mills: the Billion Dollar Industry That Has Sold More than a Million Fake College Diplomas by Allen Ezell and John Bear. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.
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Bear is widely acknowledged to be a leading authority on distance learning and diploma mills. [5] [6] [7] In 2004, he was interviewed by CBS's 60 Minutes for an investigation involving Hamilton University. [8] He has appeared as a degree mill expert on TV shows including Good Morning America, Inside Edition and American Journal.
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According to a 2004 Government Accountability Office report on diploma mills, which discussed the widespread purchase of fake degrees by high-ranking government officials, one manager in the National Nuclear Safety Administration paid $5,000 for a master's degree from LaSalle in 1996. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force at the time ...