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Topic: Diploma Mills

Related:
  Mill    Diploma  
  Old Mill    Paper Mill  
  High School Diploma    College Diploma  
  End Mills    Mill Creek  
  Saw Mill    Grist Mill  
  Puppy Mills    Lumber Mill  

 
 
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Favorite era(s):1930s
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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner

Digital Diploma Mills, Part III The Bloom is off the Rose.
John Fielding,
CEO

In Stark County of the 1950's, with its steel mills and manufacturing centers, a high school diploma was not essential.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Academics are generally concerned that asynchronous-only software, like LeaningSpace, is very dose to the same technology that those dreaded diploma mills use.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Many jurisdictions, for example Louisiana, Alabama, and Hawaii are very lax in their regulations and allow diploma mills to operate.
Diploma mills and mail order degrees mislead and endanger consumers and are damaging to trained and professional naturopathic physicians who find themselves sharing the same title.
Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education.
Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner

Our list does not pretend to be comprehensive, especially since diploma mills have the nasty habit of closing shop and then reopening under a different name.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Interview with David Noble Commerce Influences Content: The author of the Digital Diploma Mills articles is interviewed by The Node.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Rather than diploma mills that stress rote memorization, schools could become 'learning centers', where students would be allowed to study their choice of a variety of.
There are also several diploma mills that will offer "home study courses" in naturopathic medicine.
This does not mean that they are accredited or that they are not diploma mills.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education LC 212.
 
 
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