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In May of 2009, GetEducated.com’s Diploma Mill Police mascot, Chester Ludlow, a pug dog, purchased an online “Life Experience Degree” from Rochville University.
Chester received a fake diploma from Rochville that certified his graduation from the unaccredited online college. Chester's story made national news, warning online students to beware of diploma mill scams.
Now, over a year later, "Washington Post" reporter Neely Tucker investigates another infamous Rochville University alum, William M. Drumheller III, a Virginia minister at the Harrisonburg Church of Christ. The "Post" reports that the minister has been convicted of murder, along with sexual misconduct and running a Medicare scam.{{sponsor46}}
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 A Florida police chief has resigned his position after admitting he bought two fake online degrees from Youngsfield University, a reputed college diploma mill.
Mark Isom, former Chief of Police in Fruitland Park, Florida, signed an agreement last week with the Attorney's General's office forfeiting his certification to work in law enforcement. Youngsfield University, which maintains a mailing address in the United Kingdom and New York, awards degrees based on life experience credit. The school is not accredited to award degrees by any agency in the USA or abroad.
In a pre-trail agreement drafted by the Attorney General's office, Isom admitted he never took actual courses from the degree mill, and that he knew the online school, which awarded him two degrees in criminal justice, was not accredited by any recognized agency.
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Distance Degrees - Compare >
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The Get Educated consumer reporting team has uncovered some shocking news about online master's degree cost statistics.
Many public and state universities have begun offering the same master's degrees online as they've offered for decades on-campus. But buyer beware—a few are charging up to two times more for the convenience of online course delivery.
Compare Online Graduate School Costs
Increasingly, if you are considering an online graduate degree, the very same program may be available as a traditional residential degree and in an online learning format. {{RightSponsor46}}
Many public and state universities, suffering from declining tax support, have begun charging higher tuition and fees for the convenience of online education.
If your state university is offering online masters or doctorate degrees, compare tuition and fee schedules before you enroll. Doing so could save you thousands on your graduate school education.
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Learn more about the cost of online vs. traditional masters degrees
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 Rosa Morgan, 42, is an In School Suspension Supervisor at Lebanon Middle School in Lebanon, Indiana. She is the winner of the GetEducated.com free $1,000 online college scholarship. Rosa will use the grant toward an online Bachelors of Management at Indiana Wesleyan University.
At ten years old, Morgan moved to America from the Cape Verde Islands, located off the coast of Africa. School was challenging for Morgan, as she was placed in bi-lingual immersion classes. Without any prior experience speaking English, she struggled to keep up with her studies.
Morgan remembers, “I did not know many English words and I did not know many Portuguese words. I had come from an island that was colonized by the Portuguese, so the language in school was Portuguese, but we spoke Creole at home. My island was very poor, so school was not a high priority.”{{sponsor56}}
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Learn more about the GetEducated.com $1,000 online college scholarship
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Steven B. Feldman, age 60, has been accused of using a degree mill, Hamilton University, an online college which markets life experience degrees, to obtain counseling credentials and secure a job thereafter as a Saratoga County Family Court mental health counselor.
The diploma mill fraud charges were brought by New York State in June. Feldman, who resides in Saratoga Springs, New York, was paid more than $10,000 by the court system to evaluate indigents for psychological and mental status.{{RightSponsor46}} |
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