You can’t say Tom Harkin didn’t warn you.
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You know, fraud for fraud, diploma mills are looking a hell of a lot better to UD at this point than the for-profits.
The for-profits are getting all of this attention… And unlike the fly-by-night diploma mills, the for-profits, who have fancy people like ex-Princeton president Harold Shapiro running them, aren’t going away…
What I mean is, if you’re like Massachusetts politician Jeff Perry, and you’ve bought a diploma mill degree, and your congressional campaign’s tanking because people are laughing at you about it, you can say Look, the place was shut down by the authorities. The president’s in jail. I was the innocent victim of a fraud.
It’s much harder to dissociate yourself from the for-profits.
Not only that, but the diploma mill transaction is a straightforward one-shot deal: You pay $1,000, you get a PhD, end of story. No loans, no muss, no fuss.