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Daniel P. Matthews, Chief Information Officer for the Department of Transportation (which oversees the Transportation Security Administration) was reported to have received his $3,500 Bachelor of Science degree from Kent College (not to be confused with Kent State University in Kent, Ohio), a diploma mill in Mandeville, Louisiana.
Some U.S. state laws allow authorities to shut down illegal operations of unaccredited schools or diploma mills. [21] In others, particularly, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, and California, the state permits anyone to claim to operate a college and issue degrees with essentially no oversight. [22]
Honolulu University (also known as Honolulu University of the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Golden State University) [10] [207] Houdegbe North American University, Nigeria [ 56 ] House of God Academy and Bible College Online, South Carolina; [ 208 ] overseen by the unaccredited Transworld Accrediting Commission International [ 8 ]
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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.
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Idaho State University (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010). Read our methodology here. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014. Schools are ranked based on the percentage of their athletic budget that comes from subsidies.
It led to more than 20 convictions [1] and the closing of 39 diploma mills. [4] Dipscam began from an initial 1980 investigation by the Charlotte Field Office of the FBI into Southeastern University of Greenville, SC [5] and evolved into multiple investigations of diploma mills throughout the United States and abroad. During Dipscam, 40 ...