Senator Collins op-ed piece

Bogus Degrees and Unmet Expectations, in the (Maine) Magic City Morning Star, May 17, 2004.

 

Alongside were four Google ads for diploma mills. And so it goes.

Senator Collins did make a distinction between diploma mills and legitimate, unaccredited schools. (State there are non-mill schools, but not offering criteria for determining the difference.) She also indicated that there are legitimate, distance-learning schools. The senator also makes it clear that some customers are fooled, while others are co-conspirators. She doesn't indicate what the balance of that mix might be. I feel it is largely the latter.

 

I've been doing some experimenting with Google ads on my two websites (www.tomnixon.net and www.cheapdegrees.com ). It is certainly possibly to get rid of most of those types of ads, but you really have to keep with it. Clearly some sites do not have the desire to do so.




Tom Nixon

 

Um, me too. Very, very largely the latter.

 

I would agree with that as well. It is one thing to be fooled, and be in denial about it. But, after much evidence is given, and after testimony of how the school functions from employees that give inside information with no rebuttal from the school only co-conspirators would continue to hold it up as credible university.

The sentiment of many is as long as I get my piece of paper.