New Wyoming law; it's a start

Wyoming has just passed a new law that seems specifically aimed at Hamilton University. In effect, it seems to put Wyoming into line with most other states, in saying that schools with a religious exemption can only grant religious degrees. Indeed, it seems to go further than most other states in limiting degree titles to Bachelor of Religious Studies, Master of Divinity, and Doctor of Divinity.

http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2004/introduced/SF0025.pdf

Will they move on to dealing with the non-religious schools? Some people there would really like to do this. We can but hope.

 

It's a good start but doesn't really make much of a dent. I'm hoping that another weak link state can clean up their laws.

 

What will happen to schools that offere non religious degrees that are excempt from this law?

Migara

 

Yup. It's a start. I never could figure how a state which used to have such a smart (add another syllable according to political taste) senator as Alan Simpson could be just so durn dumb (add the same syllable again according to degree of exasperation) about mills.

 

I'd prefer seeing the authorities stick to prosecuting fraud. Trying to tailor laws to cover every possible educational variance is likely a futile endeavor and is likely to exclude some legitimate new educational ventures.

The net effect of this command-and-control model of governance is to lock in the established order at the expense of creativity.

 

Oh, I don't know. Most states seem to deal well with this subject. That's why we see the "migration" of diploma mills from state-to-state to avoid regulation. There are only a few havens left, and others are closing in (ask Century!).

 

That may be but it doesn't address whether we discard the less visible grist with the more visible mill. Will this allow for any competition to "The Establishment?"

Much, I think, like the argument of whether to proffer negative rights as in the U.S. Constitution or positive rights as in the 1st and 2nd Amendments.