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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.
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.
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.
In the lawsuit, Pappert directed the diploma mill, which had used email spam to sell degrees, to provide restitution to anyone who had ordered a degree from them. In December 2004, the Texas attorney general obtained a temporary restraining order under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act against Trinity Southern and its owners, Craig B. and ...
The Oregon State Office of Degree Authorization identified Saint Regis University as a diploma mill linked to 18 other front "schools". [3] The school issued degrees based on "life experience" instead of requiring the taking of academic classes or a formal course of study. It sold both college degrees and high school diplomas.
A fire chief was dismissed from his job for his Belford degree in 2006. [24] Similarly, a faculty member at Pensacola State College was dismissed in January 2011 for "present[ing] college administrators with an unaccredited master's degree from an online diploma mill that he obtained while on a paid sabbatical". [25]
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 ...