Online University Hears the Cat's Meow in Consumer-Fraud Lawsuit Over Bogus Degrees

By DANIEL ENGBER

A jet-black cat with short hair received an M.B.A. from an online university a few months ago, on the basis of its several semesters of course work and an impressive 3.5 grade-point average. Now the cat's owner -- Kathryn H. Silcox, of the Pennsylvania attorney general's office -- has organized a...

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