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Friday, March 17, 2006

UD’s Friend,
Diploma Mill Expert
George Gollin…

…reports in an email (I’ll try to find a newspaper article to link to it later) that Wyoming

has passed ‘AN ACT relating to private school licensing…’ The vote was strongly in favor of the bill: 51 for, 7 against in the House and 27 for, 3 against in the Senate. It was signed by the governor a few days ago.

As I understand it, the bill requires a post-secondary institution in Wyoming and/or granting degrees to Wyoming citizens to be accredited, or to be a candidate for accreditation. I believe the exemption for religious schools only permits them to offer degrees in theological subjects.


This is an important step on the way back to educational self-respect for a state that has been a notorious diploma mill enabler.

I’m a wee bit worried about that exemption for religious schools and theological subjects, since it’s easy to rejigger your scam toward theosophy, theocentrism, theism, teaism, tzeism, and totemic thomism.
Posted at: 3/17/2006 10:21:00 AM