Lax regulations make it easy for many of Alabama’s 300 online colleges and universities to actually serve as diploma mills, according to state higher-education officials quoted in today’s Huntsville Times. The officials said that the state’s loose oversight of the institutions has encouraged many of them to relocate to the state, after being driven out of other states, such as Mississippi, that have tightened their own rules. A special report in The Chronicle in 2004, Degrees of Suspicion, outlined the scale of the industry.
January 25, 2007
Alabama Officials Say State Is Haven for Diploma Mills
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