Diploma mills are unaccredited institutions that award degrees in exchange for money. Sometimes these fake schools offer a limited and inferior education. Other times they simply mail out a degree in...

Beware of diploma mills - these "fake" schools will take your money and leave you with a degree that could ruin your career and your reputation. According to an eLearners.com article there...

Recent scamming of online degree hopefuls has been featured in the news lately. Convenience has its price, and in acquiring an online degree, that price is strict vigilance. With more than 1.2 million...

A scam, bad policy, or just a mix-up? I don't know. The following note came from one of our readers, debbie Harris, whose husband has allegedly been having problems with Colorado Technical...

From Inside Higher Education: A graduate student has filed a lawsuit charging three online vendors of term papers with selling a paper she wrote without her permission. Blue Macellari is currently...

From Inside Higher Education ... An investigation of student athletes at Nicholls State University in Louisiana has revealed that students and university staff had engaged in "gross academic...

Via CITInfobits. In his article,"In Defense of Cheating" (UBIQUITY, vol. 6, issue 11, April 5-12, 2005), Donald A. Norman responds to Evan Golub's recent article on student cheating and...

Earned with city funds ... The city of Cheyenne has paid for the city's police chief to earn a masters degree from a suspected diploma mill. Police Chief Bob Fecht got the degree from Lacrosse...

From Gelf Magazine ... George Weah, Liberian hero ... Now that Weah has changed his mind and decided to enter the 42-man race for the presidency in October, that landslide no longer seems inevitable....

From the BBC, the rise of plagerism in the UK. Dorit Chomer runs one of several companies that trade in "off-the-peg" and custom-written academic work. She told a BBC Radio 4 documentary she...

An online university in a P.O. Box? Find out at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Heed exhibits several signs of being a degree mill, but the state has little authority over it, said David Dies,...

From the Technology Review, via Distance Educator. An online college is still operating a Web site and has renewed its corporate license -- but has no education license eight months after a state law...

At the New York Times ... A recent spate of computer-security incidents at colleges and universities has drawn attention to the apparent tension between concerns over academic freedom and the need to...

From Buyer Beware at the CarolinaChannel.com. Something I've been trying to say for the past few months is watch out for the unaccredited programs out there. All the ones listed here are reputable...

The Epistolizer has a few interesting comments on the recent listing of accredited colleges and universities, arguing that this may stifle some of the innovation made in distance education. I have to...

From Business Wire. The people who have condemned widespread student plagiarism are being found to be guilty of the same crime. Pervasive student plagiarism used to be the dirty little secret in...

It seems everyone is reporting on diploma mills lately, and rightly. It's important that legitimate online degrees are not tagged with the 'diploma mill' baggage. Here's a story from...

From the BBC ... A rise in the number of students in the UK, including undergraduates from overseas, is likely to mean increased plagiarism, a report has said. Colleges and universities are being sent...

From Distance Educator and eSchool News. Students or adult professionals who turn to the internet for online degrees promising brighter futures in a matter of weeks--or even days--should think twice...

From Wired News, 2 February 2005 ... see the accreditation post below for more details about checking up on the colleges you're interested in and getting a more detailed analysis. In an effort to...

Danny Taggart's Blogarama links to this story at the PhillyBurbs about fraud online degrees. He makes the good point that some news articles often don't seperate the real online university...