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Blenheim Palace, birthplace of Winston Churchill. While not part of a university, its image was featured as part of the campus of the fictional Robertstown University, a diploma mill. Diploma mills in the United States (also known as a degree mill) are organizations that award academic degrees and diplomas with substandard or no academic study ...
Lobi Business School, Nigeria [56] Logos University International, Florida [280] London College of Technology and Business [281] London External Studies, Nigeria [56] Lorenz University, California; [18] [282] closed but still listed as of 2009.
Cambridge State University was a diploma mill, formerly operated in Shreveport, Louisiana, [1] and Hawaii, then relocated to Mississippi, which offered university-level degrees via distance education. It is not a state school [2] but a proprietary private university . In 1998, the Attorney General of Louisiana won court orders to close down ...
Diploma mill. A diploma mill or degree mill is a business that sells illegitimate diplomas or academic degrees. [1] [2] The term diploma mill is also used pejoratively to describe any educational institution with low admission and graduation standards, low job placement rate, or low average starting salaries of its graduates. The degrees can be ...
Historical perspectives: diploma mill degrees. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) has reported, During the latter part of the 19th century, the value of the degree increased substantially, as evidenced by the passage of the Morrill Land Grant Act and the founding of many new colleges. This created a market for degrees, and ...
Hampden–Sydney College (H-SC) is a private liberal arts men's college in Hampden Sydney, Virginia.Founded in 1775, Hampden–Sydney is the oldest privately chartered college in the Southern United States, the tenth-oldest college in the US, the last college founded before the American Declaration of Independence, and the oldest of only three four-year, all-male liberal arts colleges ...
Operation Dipscam was a series of separate investigations [1] conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), [2] the General Accountability Office, [3] the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and other United States agencies from 1980 to 1991. It led to more than 20 convictions [1] and the closing of 39 diploma mills.
Thomas James Kirk II (also known as Thomas McPherson [citation needed]) operated several fraudulent higher education organizations (diploma mills), including LaSalle University in Mandeville, Louisiana (not associated with the Lasallian educational institutions nor with La Salle Extension University), the University of San Gabriel Valley, and Bienville University.