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Monday, January 24, 2005
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UD HASN'T DONE DIPLOMA MILLS IN AWHILE...
...and there's always something happening on that front. For instance, Wyoming has recently made it clear, reports The Casper Star-Tribune, that it intends to retain its crown as Queen of the Mills: "CHEYENNE --- If the Wyoming Department of Education wants to remove the state's image as a haven for diploma mills, it apparently will have to take action on its own. Earlier this month the Joint Interim Education Committee voted against introducing an accreditation bill supported by the Department of Education to require private degree-granting, post-secondary universities to become accredited in the state." Wyoming is now among the few places in America that welcome diploma mills. Make a note of it. Note also this nicely written piece of advice - part of a list of recommendations for the new year - from Matt Simonton, a student at Washington University: " 9. Buy your Ph.D. from a bogus diploma mill Here are your options. (1) Remain in school for another grueling decade, slavishly writing your pathetic doctoral dissertation while working a part-time job at Applebee's. (2) Pay a measly $3,600 for a Ph.D. from prestigious Hamilton University, where you can work at a leisurely pace in one of their 'self-based external programs.' All you need is the money, the time to take online courses and a 2,000-word thesis. Plenty of diploma mills, or 'correspondence schools,' exist, ranging from Hamilton, a converted Motel 6 in [drumroll...] Wyoming, to Adam Smith University, which operates out of a hostel in Monrovia, Liberia, to Stanford University (of Arkansas). Sure, many of these institutes of higher learning have been discredited as fraudulent, but hey, if you can pull the wool over the eyes of some corporate interviewer using a degree you purchased for three months' pay at Blockbuster Video, what's stopping you? Earn your Ph.D. in 2005! " |