HSD official obtained Ph.D. from diploma mill By Patience Wait and Wilson P. Dizard III Post Newsweek Tech Media http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/20849-1.html A high-ranking career official in the Homeland Security Department apparently obtained her doctorate from a Wyoming diploma mill. Laura L. Callahan, now senior director in the office of department CIO Steven Cooper, states on her professional biography that she “holds a Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Hamilton University.” Callahan, who is also president of the Association for Federal IRM and a member of the CIO Council, is commonly called by the title “Dr.” Callahan’s resume says she began her civil service career in 1984. Before joining HSD, she was deputy CIO at the Labor Department. Hamilton University, according to an Internet search, is located in Evanston, Wyo. It is affiliated with and supported by Faith in the Order of Nature Fellowship Church, also in Evanston. The state of Wyoming does not license Hamilton because it claims a religious exemption. Oregon has identified Hamilton University as a diploma mill unaccredited by any organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
What plscott meant to say, I'm sure, was, "Thank you, Frankie, for reminding us of this important story. Often, however, if you do a search here before posting, you sometimes can save bandwidth and people's time." Most recent gossip from DC is that Callahan was put on leave not because of her fake degrees but because of a problem with her security clearance,* and that her appeal has been denied. ________ * It is conceivable, I guess, that there is a connection. Can a person with dubious degrees get security clearance?
