DEGREES OF SUSPICION

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar World of Diploma Mills

The business is booming like never before, and some of its customers are college professors

By THOMAS BARTLETT and SCOTT SMALLWOOD

One by one, thousands of brand-new graduates strode across stages this spring to receive a valuable document: a college diploma. It represents years of hard work and academic achievement. More important,...

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