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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.
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.
Sheepskin diploma from Mexico City College, 1948 (in Latin) A diploma is a document awarded by an educational institution (such as a college or university) testifying the recipient has graduated by successfully completing their courses of studies. [1] Historically, it has also referred to a charter or official document of diplomacy. [2] [3]
Stephanie Ritter, an underemployed graduate of Florida State University, has decided to sell her diploma and "college experience" on eBay after the job prospects post college have become fruitless.
People without a college degree leaned Democratic in 2008, according to exit polls. But this year, 63% supported President-elect Donald Trump, NBC News exit polls found.
In 2010, Mark Howard, a member of the legal team for the claimants in BSkyB Ltd & Anor v HP Enterprise Services UK Ltd & Anor [2010] [20] obtained a degree for his dog Lulu from Concordia College in the US Virgin Islands. Lulu "graduated" with higher marks than the defendant's key witness, who, the judge found, had lied that he had attended ...
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 ...
Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters, or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.