Time bomb (school superintendent) in upstate NY

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  1. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    The Daily Messenger in Canandaigua, NY (near Rochester), and the Finger Lakes Times both reported Monday that the newly-appointed school superintendent, Doctor William Nichiporuk, has his Ph.D. from . . . Brentwick University, one of the earlier names used by the huge Romanian fraud.

    There will be follow-up stories on Tuesday . . . and then the school board has its regular meeting on Wednesday, when they will address the problem.

    Nichiporuk, not surprisingly, has insisted on being called "Doctor."

    I haven't found the actual articles yet; just talked to the reporters.
     
  2. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

  3. jugador

    jugador New Member

    Still, my sense is that the educational community (from public school systems through Universities) does a better job of policing itself for this stuff than anybody else. Non-educational government entities (especially local) are the worst. Gwinnett County, Georgia (northern suburb of Atlanta) has a policy of zero tolerance with teachers holding bogus graduate degrees, even if the undergrad degree is legitimate.

    http://www.gwinnettdailyonline.com/GDP/archive/article1EAD021E98F44B8298589C6A8159C402.asp

    Dr. Bear: On another subject, are there any national media interviews on tap in advance of the book publication? I know that for a while a few years ago, ABC TV and Good Morning America showed an intense interest in diploma mills. Might be worth dropping them an e-mail along with an offer to appear.
     
  4. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    jugador: "Dr. Bear: On another subject, are there any national media interviews on tap in advance of the book publication? I know that for a while a few years ago, ABC TV and Good Morning America showed an intense interest in diploma mills. Might be worth dropping them an e-mail along with an offer to appear."

    John: I talk to the ABC consumer editor, Greg Hunter, every few months. He says that degree mills, for them, is like McRibs at McDonalds. McDonalds apparently has learned that McRibs will not sell all year long, so they bring it in to any given restaurant for a month or so every few years, as a big 'new' special thing. He says, in effect, it will continue to come 'round on their guitar, but not too soon, I guess.

    The 60 Minutes episode, originally scheduled for Sept., may happen later in November. They say they definitely plan to run it, but because it is not linked to a 'hot' story, it can fit in anytime. The publisher has a publicity department whose main function is to try to get authors on such programs. The only problem is, there are about 42,000 authors who want such publicity, and, what, a dozen interviews a day. So often we settle for "Good Morning, Dubuque" and "Boise Today" and the like.
     
  5. galanga

    galanga New Member

    update

    Superintendent asked to resign by concerned residents in Palmyra-Macedon, 10NBC (Rochester, NY NBC affiliate), November 24, 2004.
    G
     
  6. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

  7. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    Sounds like he's both an academic fraud and an embezzler.
     
  8. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    Having read all the above postings (and their attached newspaper clips) I have only two comments.
    1) It seems this guy could have gotten the job without the phony degree. The price of insecurity...
    2) It seems that it was the town citizens who figured out that the degree was phony. While this says bad things about the school administration (and perhaps supports some of Rich Douglas' research findings) it also says good things about the level of general awareness of degree mills and fake degrees among the general population.
    Jack
     

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