Atlanta Journal-Constitution Saint Regis article

galanga · Mar 20, 2004

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published Bogus degrees land teachers in woodshed in its Saturday, 3/20 edition.

A state investigation found Friday that 10 Georgia educators — six from Gwinnett and four from other counties — have bought bogus advanced degrees from an online university based in Liberia...

Georgia recognized degrees from St. Regis, because it was affiliated with the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers, a nonprofit voluntary organization that includes a foreign education credential service.

But officials with the American Association of College Registrars and Admission Officers, said they offer membership to anyone who pays.

St. Regis joined the organization a year ago, but its membership has since lapsed.

The organization's evaluation of the group, "says it's a diploma mill," said Dale Gough, director of international education services with the association. Gough said if Georgia officials had called his association about St. Regis, he would have told them, as he has told other states, that St. Regis was a diploma mill...

St. Regis set up its own "phony" operations to do the [credential equivalency] verifications, Gough said.

The PSC [Georgia Professional Standards Commission] has informed the teachers their upgraded certification has been recalled, and they also face sanctions if a PSC ethics board finds they bought a degree they knew they didn't earn. Individual school systems, including Gwinnett Schools, may also investigate their teachers...
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