Faking it Article in The Economist. Quotes Gollin, Bear. The usual stuff, but nice to see it in a magazine renowned for publishing ads for diploma mills.
also Ezell... ...who is said to believe Laura Callahan "had no idea that they [Hamilton U degrees] were worthless." G
The standard response "I worked hard for my degree." followed by one of the following A) "I didn't know they were unaccredited." B) "They seemed like a good school to me." C) "I'll have to check into that claim that they're a degree mill." My favorite was the TV psychologist who on Good Morning America (IIRC) used C) and then to prove how hard he worked for his doctorate, he proudly showed the camera his "dissertation", which was a 3 or 4 page synopsis of one book.
Nice to see that the Economist is finally noticing fake degrees. It's just too bad that some of their revenue is dependent on the ads they publish on behalf of diploma mills. I'm still waiting for the day that SRU takes out a full page ad for their DL degrees.
Galanga: "...who is said to believe Laura Callahan "had no idea that they [Hamilton U degrees] were worthless." John: Callahan now clearly states Hamilton is a diploma mill. One of the intriguing bits that I haven't seen in the news is that her then-employer, the Department of Labor, not only approved the degrees, but acknowledge now that they used her Hamilton thesis as the basic framework for their E-Government Strategy, which they published two years after her degrees, and are still using today.
Unfortunately, there are many simple minded & corrupt public servants who control the purse strings at the Federal level. Callahan's story is just one of many. Her story just happened to make it to the press. Having once worked for the federal government as a consultant, I can attest that such scandals do exist. Yes, your tax dollars are paying the salaries of these incompetent public servants.
