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"Thanks much for your wonderful site! I've recommended it to my students and entered a program I found at GetEducated.com." --Charles Balch, MBA, Ph.D. --Professor, Arizona Western College
Vicky Phillips -- Founder of GetEducated.com ... "for 20 years the leading consumer advocate for online college students" ... Different Paths to a College Degree, Sept. 2009
Vicky Phillips ... founder of GetEducated.com ... "one of the nation’s leading experts on educational fraud" ... . ~Joyce Lain Kennedy~ (Nov, 2009), LA Times
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Get Educated helps LATimes Consumer Reporter David Lazarus in "Getting an Education Learning Over the Internet" -- Nov. 10, 2010
Get Educated's beloved mascot, Chester Ludlow, dog with online MBA, helps Neely Tucker, Washington Post reporter, expose murderous minister with degree mill pedigree - Dec. 2010
Missouri has passed a law that makes it illegal to use fake degrees, transcripts or credentials when applying for work or engaging in business in the State of Missouri.
The law was drafted in response to specific cases of employment fraud in the state involving false transcripts and academic degrees from college degree mills.
In one case, the University of Missouri-Columbia caught a job applicant submitting false doctorate transcripts from the university to secure employment at a health care facility.
In another high profile case, a couple from St. Charles, Missouri submitted false records from Lindenwood University andSt. Charles Community colleges, both real universities, in an effort to secure state teaching jobs.
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}}
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.
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}}
The University of Newcastle, an online college diploma mill that was recently closed in the UK, has opened a new website which cites operations in the United States: Chicago and Washington, D.C. Established in October of 2006 and operated out of a pub in Manchester, UK, this unaccredited university provided phony diplomas to 1,797 students—netting almost 2 million pounds (equivalent to a little over $3 million), according to a recent report in the London Times. Eight students who received these phony degrees have been arrested for alleged connections to Al-Qaeda, the Times reported.
Over the last four years, the University of Newcastle claimed distance degree operations in Ireland, the UK, and the South Pacific.
Facing prosecution in Britain, the degree mill recently moved its primary address to the U.S., citing Washington, D.C. as its chief center of operation. {{LeftSponsor53}}
