Engineering Degree Online | My hairdresser knows for sure

Posted by bposton on November 14th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I got my hair cut the other day, and I started a conversation with the girl, er lady that cut my hair.

Her name is Alicia, and she’s already figured out the online degree thing.

Alicia will be finishing up her undergraduate degree in Religous Studies, and then she’s going to get her Masters in Organizational management.

As soon as she mentioned her plans for a graduate degree, i asked her if she had ever considered getting a degree online.

“Oh, I’m definitely getting my masters online” she said without hesitation, “it’s the ONLY way to go…”

So I gave her an honorary membership into the online degree dorm room :-)

Yea, my hairdresser knows for sure - online degrees have come of age. Especially when considering a graduate degree. I see ads and billboards all over touting one online graduate degree program after another.

And Alicia knows the score. She’s going to stay home with her growing family, keep working, and earn her masters in a short period of time. Then she’ll be off to the races.

Problem is, she probably won’t be cutting my hair after that - which is bad news for me :-)

Ben

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engineering degree online : fake diplomas - it’s a crime

Posted by bposton on October 28th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I’ve been talking alot about fake or phoney diplomas, and degree mills.

Sorry for staying up on this soap box, but I really wanted you to understand that they are bad, bad, bad.

Actually, they’re against the law - in some states. One of those is Oregon, a state that cracks down on diploma mills all the time.

Alan Contreras works on this for the State of Oregon. Here’s a comment he made:

“You don’t want somebody with a fake degree working in Homeland Security. You don’t want somebody with a fake degree teaching your children or designing your bridges.”

I’d agree. But here’s the sad news - it’s a reported fact that investigations have found employees with diploma mill degrees at the Transportation Security Administration, the Defense Intelligence Agency and at the Departments of Treasury and Education.

A while back there was a report that one individual -  who sat on an advisory committee for the Department of Education - had two degrees from two diploma mills including Kensington University.

Kensington was forced out of business by officials in California and Hawaii.

There was also another person - A Florida State representative, who was also on the National Commission on Presidential Scholars that was another Kensington alum.

Both these people say that they worked very hard for their degree and thought it was legitimate.

What irks me is that taxpayers have probably paid for the bogus degrees of these and many other government employees. 

Just my final warning - check out the program very carefully.

OK, I’ll get off my soap box now - a least for awhile :-)  

Ben

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