Please share your discovery of 'time bombs' with me

As many of you know, Good Morning America did a segment on degree mills last month, in which their consumer editor, Greg Hunter, paid unannounced visits to three holders of fake degrees (which I had discovered on the internet) -- a 'doctor' with his own TV program, a standards engineer at the Bridgestone-Firestone tire plant, and a safety person at a nuclear power plant.

That segment got good ratings, and they would like to do a similar "outing" on a regular basis. So, if you make juicy discoveries, please share them with me, either on this forum or directly ([email protected]).

GMA is especially interested in (a) people on the public payroll, such as politicians, teachers, police, military, and so forth; (b) people in sensitive jobs (like the ones they did the first time); and/or (c) people with juicy newsworthy opportunities to go "nyaah nyaah nyaah" (such as the professor of criminal justice at a Michigan college, that Bill Gossett just found).

Thanks for your help.

I'd love to see a time when every fake degree holder in America is sitting there, hoping that Greg Hunter won't be heading up his or her path.

John Bear

 

ooops, pressed the wrong button in the wrong window :-/

Somebody like this, but maybe he's not sufficiently juicy...

Dr Karl B Schwartz (Criminal Law) http://www.allexperts.com/displayExpert.asp?Expert=6714

 

How about Texas Building Examiner, Expert Witness.
http://buildingexaminersoftexas.homestead.com/Randal2.html


This is so depressing. Why are people so good at destroying their careers by topping their experience off with shonky degrees? *sigh*

 

What puzzles me is, why is Western - Kennedy so prominent? Have they managed to stay around longer, are they better at avoiding getting closed down? Why do even some Stanford profs list themselves as Adjunct Professors at KW - sorry , can't find the link for this one. Being an adjunct prof can hardly be a star on one's CV, I would have thought ....

 

Where's the cut-off line being drawn here? How are 'degree mill' and 'fake degree' being defined?

Unaccredited universities? Substandard universities? Schools that simply sell degrees? (Many of those hide behind the fig leaf of giving credit for "life experience".)

Doing this kind of thing will almost inevitably draw lawsuits. Employees' careers and their employers' reputations are being attacked, so a spirited defense is to be expected.

This could end up with a MIGS-style defamation lawsuit on a grand scale, unless people are very careful about what they allege.

 

I think that it's a safe bet saying that SGUI is a degree mill.

Credit for life experience is something that I think is fairly valid at the bachelor's level, though. In question here is the degree mill doctorate.

Most of the up and up programs I have seen(I have looked at Ohio U. and TESC in the past) have stringent rules on how they will accept credit for life experiences. You must be able to document your learing fairly well to get the credit. I can probably say that this is not done so stringently at SGUI...even at the bachelor's level.

 

Here is a case of someone that couldn't leave well enough alone...
http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcfp/residents_fac_grief.html

Yet another misguided government employee..
http://jp.co.pima.az.us/www/newca.htm

This person has more problems than just holding a degree mill credential, IMO...
http://www.nycollege.edu/academic/facultyspecial.html

Ruth Sucato....the "Love Doctor"....
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~socwork/professional_development/psychopathology.htm

The picture of this guy alone is entertaining enough..
http://www.mthighentertainment.com/artists_html/artists_bio/mezmer.html

More to be posted when I get bored enough.

Bruce

 

The original GMA piece had to do with Columbia State University; I think it's safe to call that one a degree mill.


Peace,

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Tom Head
www.tomhead.net

 

Here's a good one for you....
http://www.gongwer.com/biohse.html

2000-2001 BIOGRAPHIES OF
MICHIGAN HOUSE MEMBERS

25th State House District:Wayne (Ecorse, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, Allen Park (part))

*D - Schermesser, Gloria
944 Kings Highway
Lincoln Park, MI 48146
Personal: Born October 5, 1956. Married to Michael with three children.

Education/Professional: Majored in business management at Wayne County Community College; attended Wayne State University and obtained bachelor’s degree in business from Columbia State University. Former community liaison and administrative assistant for a Wayne County Commissioner. Active in Kiwanis, Ladies Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and other community service groups. Past chair of Friends of Ecorse Creek.

Political: Last election: beat Jesse Church in 2000, 23,240 to 6,759. First elected to House in special elected in 1996; re-elected in 1996 and 1998. Former Lincoln Park mayor pro tem.

§ Committees: Insurance and Financial Services, Transportation, Veteran's Affairs(MVC)

 

http://www.pleion.net/resume.htm

EDUCATION

3/97 M.S./Ph.D. Columbia State University - Computer Information Systems.
1/94 C.N.A. Novell/ICM.
1/91 B.A. Edison State College - Humanities.
4/83 A.S. Charter Oak College - General Studies.
4/83 Diploma Computer Processing Institute - Business Computer Programming.

 

Let me know when you make the transition
from GMA to Jerry Springer. BTW what kind
of finders fee are you offering? JT

 

Hmmm - an ESL instructor at Edison Community College with one from CSU... interesting.
http://www.edison.cc.oh.us/AllStaff.htm

Wilt, John W.
ESL Coordinator
B.A., Antioch University West; M.S., Columbia State University

 

This is getting to be too easy of a scavenger hunt....

A little more faculty.... http://www.strayer.edu/CONT_STD/catalog/direct.htm

Jerry J. Garbinski*, Accounting; B.S., Accounting, Brigham Young University; M.A., Management and Supervision, Central Michigan University; Ph.D., Business Administration, Columbia State University

and... another 'Dr.' (with high honors no less): http://homepages.lycos.com/DrFilibeck/lyresume/

Columbia State University
Doctor of Philosophy - Business Administration, 1998
Graduated with High Honors

 

When Duke pounds Michigan State on April 2 in the final four, I think MSU will lose its accreditation, so Dr. Bear's degree will become suspect.

 

http://www.cleary.edu/nbn/NbnBio.asp?TeacherId=106&CourseSectionId=840

Cleary College Instructor Biography

Academic Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . BA (Bachelors Degree)
Major - Classics English
Loyola University of Chicago, 1963

MBA
Major - Business
Columbia State University, 1997

PhD Business
Major - Business
Columbia State University, 1998

....

Dang - I wish I could finish my MA and my PhD within a year of each other.. this guy must have been a real hard charger.

 

Spelled Visa or Mastercard.



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Bill Gossett

 

http://www.apsu.edu/insider/magazine/99Winter/Clsnotes.htm

Dr. Quinton A. Osborne (’78) has received his doctorate in philosophy with a concentration in social work from Columbia State University. He is employed by the state of Ohio for the Warrin Correctional Institution as a psychiatric social worker. He and his wife, Gwendolyn, have three children, Quinton, 20, Ashley, 5, and Shelbie, 4. They live in Middletown

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BTW -- this stuff is pretty east to find. DO a google.com search, put:
"Columbia State University" site:.edu
in the box and voila.. zillions of these things.

 

Here's a good one...
http://www.communications.uci.edu/98ucinews/980311ss.html

Getting the third degree
Campus police sergeant pursuing Ph.D. in criminology....

....However, Mark, who has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's in humanities, obviously needs more to occupy his mind. In about three months he will have earned a doctorate degree in criminology from Columbia State University.....