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WoW! With my $12500.00 Dr. of Natropathy Diploma, I get a transcript for certification. How could anyone in their right mind pass THAT up. Jeez, these degree mills sure do fill an important niche in the food chain, P.T. Barnum was so very right. Dan B
Sometimes I fear that we get so caught-up in the sarcasm and our own ability to spot the mills from ten miles out that we sometimes forget the newbies and others inexperienced who come here, read a thread like this, and emerge still not quite certain if it's a diploma mill. So, in the interest of ensuring that no one is misled... Yes! It's a mill. Stay away! Far, far away! (Just wanted that to be clear and unambiguous, for the reader's sake.) Whew! "Chase University" (and, of course, we use the term "university" extremely loosely) is a real stinker, isn't it? Its degrees, including a nice photo (always a tip-off) Its apostille (the diploma mill tool of choice) Its accreditation (and its joke of an accreditor) The place where the DN may get "certified" (HA!) Oy.
They arrived on our database in 2002, with a "campus" Athens, Georgia and another address in Kenner, Louisiana. There was an unconnected "Chase University" run from Louisiana in the 1980s by one of the charming rascals in this field, Elmer Chase, who seemed sincere if misguided, and finally gave up trying to make a go of it.
That university (Chase), is such an obvously "pay your money" operation, I had wondered as to the gullibility of intending "graduates", that's why I posted. I also thought it was humerous that a mill owner could launch a site in which only the "silly" need apply. I was not referring to myself( I have enough degrees of my own, legitimate). Who in their right mind would pay for a sheepskin of dubious distinction as a means to career advancement in the age of the internet? Thanks for your replies.
Hmm. Now, there's an interesting dichotomy: It is the Internet that makes it easier than ever for diploma mills to be created, to market themselves as "legitimate" to those who are able to find them more easily because of the Internet, and then to collect their money with the mere click of a mouse; yet it is the Internet which also makes it so terribly easy for anyone with only marginal searching skills and the will to know to detect and identify them as diploma mills in the first place, and then to warn people away from them, as we do here. Maybe every cloud really does have a silver lining.
I was referring to the ease in which employers can access the site(for this particular university) in order to verify the existance of the institution of higher learning so forth named. If a party has the temerity to purchase a fraudulant document with intent to defraud, than HR departments (if they aren't, "swilling lattes" too often) should have little trouble in checking on new applicants. This has nothing to do with any convoluted research or insight. I am not "aching" to join a degree-busters cabal, and I'm becoming if not, a little annoyed at someone splitting hairs with me. I may be a "newbie" to your forum, but, I object to your alluding that my "judgement" for posting the existence of a phony degree mill, is somehow tied up with my lack of intelligence. And as you should be aware of my "learned" cyber oracle, not all of we posters come here to scrap it out. If there is perhaps a debate you would like to enter into, I would surely oblige.
Because it works. You're welcome. (I wonder how many are "enough degrees"? Perhaps that's a personal standard.)
Are you talkin' to me? I haven't criticized you, or taken a pot-shot at you, or challenged you, or made any allusions about you or your judgement. Or your intelligence, or lack thereof. Nor have I expressed or implied any interest in debate, or 'scrapping it out' with you, or anything of the sort. Every word I've written here is criticism aimed at Chase University. They're the problem... not you for having called it to everyone's attention (something for which, in my opinion anyway, you're to be applauded). I've thought of you -- and thought I was treating you -- like a person who either honestly wanted to know if it was a mill, or knew it was but just wanted to call it to everyone's attention... which is a good thing. So, given all that, what, precisely, is your freakin' problem? Or do we just have one of those weird situations where we simply have a good, old-fashioned misunderstanding, owing in largest measure to the fact that in a forum like this we don't have the benefit of the visual and audible cues we need to figure out when someone's kidding or being sarcastic or whatever; and, therefore, it's really easy for things to be taken the wrong way. Is that what it is? I sure hope so; 'cause if it's not, and if this were a bar, you'd about be on your ass on the floor by now comin' at me like that for no apparent reason. Let's hope it's just a misunderstanding. And, if so, then I'll begin by apologizing for my part of it, whatever that was. Your turn.
To Des Elms, My sincere apologies for misinterpreting your replies. l do respect your knowledge(and the knowledge of others on this board) on this subject. I thankyou for your comments. It is my hope people are not taken in by fraudulent schools, to which, Degreeinfo.com performs an admirable task at forewarning thus forearming, students about to sign up for a less than wonderful school.
