The Chronicle of Higher Education
DEGREES OF SUSPICION

Tilting at Diploma Mills

By THOMAS BARTLETT and SCOTT SMALLWOOD

They're not quite the X-Men, but the small group of people doing battle with diploma mills might have come out of central casting. One is a former FBI agent. Another is a government bureaucrat. There's the former president of an unaccredited university. And there's the physics professor who is devoted to stamping out fake degrees.

They've...

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