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Sunday, July 04, 2004
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UNIVERSITY DIARIES' FOURTH OF JULY POST In a wonderfully titled piece ("It May Take Hours, But You Too Can Earn a Degree"), an Oregonian columnist, after expressing pride in her state's particularly strong laws against fraudulent universities, quotes a letter she received from an indignant diploma mill student: I am a student enrolled at Kennedy-Western University. I take offense. Where does the state of Oregon, or any other state, have the right to pass laws that dictate whether a degree is valid or not? This seems unconstitutional. UD hastens to assure this student that Oregon is an anomaly. Montana, which has no laws pertaining to the legitimacy of educational institutions, is more representative. A few dissenting voices have lately complained that "The Montana legislature does not seem to care that their state has become [a] sinkhole for bogus degrees in the U.S.," but Montanans know states' rights when they see them. |