Found a great article talking about diploma mills and a current scandal affecting the City of Blythe, CA. Apparently some members and former members of the Blythe Police Department stand accused of using fraudulent degrees in order to achieve promotions in addition to receiving tuition reimbursement for said degrees. It will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out!
Click here to read Degree Mills and The Blythe Police Department
I must commend the author of this article for his ability to relate diploma mills to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz to the Scarecrow:
“Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got:
A Diploma!”
And with that, the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz conferred upon the Scarecrow a totally unearned sheepskin – lacking in academic rigor and unrecognized as accredited in all 50 States and the entire industrialized world.
Ha! A perfect analogy! Kudos!
