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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Bill would make phony degrees a felony - Jim Niemi, LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
Want a university degree without studying? An income that starts off high? The opportunity to just get in the door?If you get e-mail, you probably receive a couple of these kinds of solicitations every week from one of the hundreds of online schools promising you'll better yourself while working toward a degree at home.But many of these "schools" are nothing more than diploma mills, willing to sell you a bachelor's or master's degree or a doctorate for prices as low as $39. Often, no course work or study is required.Only four states -- Illinois, New Jersey, North Dakota and Oregon -- currently have laws prohibiting the use or sale of bogus degrees.State Rep. Susan Westrom wants to add Kentucky to that group, and she's drafting a bill to present in the next session of the General Assembly that would make the use of bogus credentials a Class D felony, punishable by a prison sentence of up to five years.
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