http://www.ashwooduniversity.net/index.htm

I guess my point is does this even qualify as a mill? A degree is awarded for an academic accomplishment. This is merely the falsifying of documents and accomplishments in exchange for money.

 

Support of the seller? Huffman??? You MUST be joking (but not funny).
Cut it out, lady.

 

Cut what out, janko?

 

Smearing Huffman--of all people--as a millist. If you don't know better, you should.
If you do know better, shame.

 

Hmm. Maybe we should treat degree mill customers like druggies. Arrest 'em, let 'em cop a plea bargain if they turn in their dealers (i.e., use 'em to get to the big fish, ya know), and sentence 'em to a little rehab.

 

"...presupposed to understand the breadth and consequence of its connotation"? Hmm. I think I'll just leave that one alone.

As for hard line approaches, why not? We're all responsible for our actions. Always. Ignorance is no excuse, as someone else rightly pointed-out here. Anyone who would believe that s/he could purchase an entire degree for a few hundred bucks for "life experience" is just too stupid to breath. Sorry, but that's just true. And since most people aren't too stupid to breath, that only leaves "trying to pull a fast one."

Arguing that those who hold "credentials" from diploma mills -- especially when they include a transcript with grades and a GP for courses never even taken; but even when they don't -- have been truly duped is just dumb. I can see how someone could maybe (and the operative word, here, is "maybe") be duped by someplace like Kennedy-Western because at least there some amount of work which at least loosely resembles college coursework with real books, and actual reading, and having to take a test or write a paper or two takes place. But even then, it would just about take someone who's pretty much only mowed lawns for the past however many years and who honestly has no clue about how college works to be duped even by Kennedy-Western.

To be truly duped, it seems to me, by someplace that just sells a degree and fake transcripts for a few hundred bucks; and that offers some kind of weird degree verification service to kinda' sorta' almost back it up, requires a special kind of stupid... either that, or certifiable brain damage. So that only leaves trickery; and that's exactly what people who have bogus degrees are doing. Don't kid yourself.

 

In the wish-it-existed state of Greggiana, anyone using a bogus, diploma mill degree gets all jail time suspended in exchange for helping police nail the person and/or company that sold it to him/her; and anyone who goes ahead and gets a legitimate degree from an accredited institution to replace the bogus one gets his/her arrest and conviction record for purchasing/using a diploma mill degree expunged altogether. Or so it would be if I were king.

 

Why all the chat about the URL called ASHWOOD?

It is not a school, plain and simple. It urks me to no end that people refer to these manufactured virtual "THINGS" as "That so-called university" and "such and such college". Even when someone is slamming these "things" they refer to them as some type of school... Ahhhh, I am ranting..

These diabolically named URL's are nothing more than a scheme and a piece of worthless "ink jetted" paper purchased by "wnnabee college grads and are no more real than the tooth fairy or *Santa. <--Nice Run on aye!!!

END OF RANT...



*Santa "may" in fact be real, the jury is still out on that one...