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Saturday, November 26, 2005
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Sad Diploma Mill Story… …in the New York Times. The notorious N.C.A.A. diploma mill/feeder school, “University High,” specializes in taking athletically valuable students who can’t graduate from high school and handing them high grades for money so sports-mad universities can admit them. Why does the N.C.A.A. collude with a bogus school whose founder “served 10 months in a federal prison camp from 1989 to 1990 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud for his involvement with a college diploma mill in Arizona. Among the activities Simmons acknowledged in court documents were awarding degrees without academic achievement and awarding degrees based on studies he was unqualified to evaluate.”? A school whose current director “was arrested on a marijuana possession charge [University High…] in 2003 and is wanted on a bench warrant.”? A school “which has no classes and no educational accreditation.”? "We're not the educational accreditation police," snorts an N.C.A.A. spokesperson. So true. You’re off the hook. |