USA Today article

Diploma mills insert degree of fraud into job market

Mentions St. Regis as a "a diploma mill in Africa."

 

where is the reference?

Hi,

In the version posted at http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2003-09-28-fakedegrees_x.htm as of 8am EDT, I couldn't find an explicit SRU reference, only references to mills in Africa. When you have a minute, could you post the URLs that link the named individuals to their SRU degrees please?
Thanks-

 

How funny is USToday. At the end of the article they have a paid ad for http://www.SpeedyDegrees.com - another mill.

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How could this be a degree mill, for the ad clearly states that one must have life experience?

 

When I pulled it up, there was the speedy degrees ad, plus one from 'University-Consulting.com':

"Use legal loopholes for verifiable Bachelor, Master & PhD Degrees"

Although, I guess those are 'Related Advertising Links', just maybe not 'good' related...

 

please

this is not a degree mill --- if that is not then i dont know what is.

$129 and you get an associates.

3-yr work experience and 60 credits and you get a BS.

What stops me from creating a website and awarding the same degrees.

If there is no TEACHING at a "school" it is a degree mill. If there are no TEACHERS it is a degree mill.

Am I missing something?

 

Re: please

Perhaps it's a personal code of ethics? A conscience? These things can be so burdensome and limiting to ones entrepeneurial spirit.
Jack

 

Oxpecker: "Mentions St. Regis as a "a diploma mill in Africa."

John: Definitely not mentioned in the on-line version I see before me. Did you make a copy of what you saw? Do we know if it's mentioned in the paper version of the newspaper? It's a little scary to think they might have that much power.

 

Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to this paragraph:

• And there have been some near misses. This year, the Broward County School District in Florida offered a candidate a job as the head of school construction. Then, school board members say, they learned the applicant's undergraduate degree came from a diploma mill in Africa. He resigned before he started the job.

The story about the Broward County head of school construction was discussed here in an earlier thread. Here is the relevant section from the Miami Herald article:

• It's so confusing to be a public school student in Broward County.
  
  About 1,200 high school seniors who choked on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test may not earn a diploma. These teens will pay the price of tough new state regulations that ban "social promotion.''
  
  Yet at the same time students got this dismal report: They learned that the school district hired a top administrator with bogus degrees.
  
  David Smith, the new deputy superintendent of facilities and construction, claims two bachelor's degrees and one master's degree from St. Regis University, an online diploma mill accredited only in the Republic of Liberia.
  
  Smith resigned before he even started. At least he spared the district the embarrassing decision of whether to lower standards for a grown-up with questionable ethics while raising them for struggling kids.

 

I saw the Advertised Link about an hour ago. But as of 10AM PDT, the link has apparently been pulled.

 

Interesting that the article is by Stephanie Armour. Saint Regis University quotes her quite prominently: http://saintregis.edu.lr/news.htm

 

Re: please

Yes! The fact that my post was in jest.

 

Re: please

Would you call TESC, COSC and Excelsior degree mills? These schools offer degrees without requiring instruction from that institution.

 

Re: Re: please

Don't be silly.