CBS Moneywatch, today, on degree mills

The CBS reporter spent a fair amount of time talking to Ezell, George Gollin, Rich Douglas, and me. Here's the story.

Your MD may have a phony degree - CBS News

Nothing really new (to folks here), but it is nice when this information goes to an audience the size of CBS.

60 Minutes addresses the subject every 20 years or so. I'd like to think it's getting on time for them to do it again, while the four of us are still around to rant and pontificate.

 

Ezell: noted that employers unwittingly motivate workers to purchase bogus credentials

Douglas, re hirers: They don't know what they're looking at, and they don't seem to care.


What's being missed here is collusion. Who is handling the hiring or promotions may be fully aware of the bogus credentials.

 

There are over 5000 AlmedA university Alumni on LinkedIn. It pays to have an almeda degree. Here are a sampling of positions you can achieve with your Almeda degree.

Professor at Seneca College
Director of Specialty Operations at Florida Hospital Medical Group
Lab Specialist / Automation at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Mammography Technologist
Sonographer, RDMS, Maternal Fetal Medicine, High Risk OB at Vassar Brothers Hospital
Adjunct Faculty at Columbus State Community College
Consultant, Physician Practice Management
Communications Off./Deputy Sheriff at Plymouth County Sheriff's Dept.
Director of Imaging Services at Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center
CT Technologist at Saint Louis University Hospital
Director of Emergency Management and Public Health EPR Coordinator
Director of Diagnostics & Therapeutics at St. Gabriel's Hospital
Director of Emergency Management & Security Operations at Baystate Noble Healthcare System

 

It took 20 minutes to come up with these positions. If the FBI wants to do something about it, it can quite easily. however, chances are that they will be arresting many of their own people in law enforcement , so nothing will ever happen.