Hello all! For all those of the Jewish faith, I wish you a Very Happy Passover! Now, for my question......Has there ever been a survey of how many individuals actually utilize a Diploma from a known Degree Mill (eg: search thru HotJobs or Monster) on their resume? Just curious...
Congressman Pepper's Subcommittee on Fraud in 1983 did probably the most extensive research. Their report suggested 500,000 Americans using fake degrees. Certainly the advent of the internet has greatly increased this number. I spent about a week searching Monster.com three years ago for ABC. They only wanted a dozen or so hot prospects to interview. So I stopped when I reached 5,000; clearly it could have been a great deal more. (Recall that the founder of Monster.com was himself discovered to have a fake MBA). The insider information suggests that the University Degree Program based in Romania (run by Americans) sold at least 100,000 degree, quite possibly more than 200,000 degrees over the past 7 or 8 years.
Let me again point to Dr Bear's list of "Number of résumés listing each [less-than-wonderful] school": http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10659
Jones International University is definitely not a degree mill: it is Regionally Accredited. If you look again at Dr Bear's list above, you'll see that Jones International is under "GAAP schools", where "GAAP" stands for "generally accepted accreditation principles". The diploma mills are all under "Non-GAAP Schools" (and I'm not saying that all those are mills). If we observe Steve Levicoff's distinction, then Kennedy-Western University might be a "degree mill" but not a "diploma mill": See my earlier thread, "Kennedy-Western: summary of facts": http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9915
