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Friday, May 21, 2004
Feds Digging Into Degree Programs of Bogus 'Universities' - Jim Brown and Jody Brown, Agape Press
Federal officials are being urged to prevent government workers from obtaining bogus college degrees from diploma mills.In 2002, a probe by the federal General Accounting Office found more than 1,200 résumés on a government Internet site listed degrees that actually came from diploma mills -- bogus universities that confer degrees with little or no study. Now a congressional investigation has found that federal workers have been reimbursed nearly $170,000 for college tuition paid to diploma mills. Last week, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs held hearings on the investigation.
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