Ed News.org: CHEA Reports On Degree Mills In The U.S.: Where Do We Go From Here?
he Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) has recently released a summary of the July 2006 meeting which covered proposed steps to counter the presence of degree mills in the U.S. The summary can be obtained at CHEA’s Internet site: www.chea.org.
From this meeting, CHEA has identified three future steps that need to be taken to combat
diploma mills:
Establish a public awareness campaign to educate the public as to what diploma mills are, the damage they cause and how to identify a potential diploma mill;
Advocate federal legislative efforts to identify and control the negative consequences of degree mills. This includes support of the Diploma Integrity Protection Act, introduced by Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN), which will take steps to establish penalties for degree mill operators and establish a definition of a degree mill;
Development of a statement of effective practice (to be used both in the U.S. and internationally) that will include attention to the responsibilities of the various individuals and entities who are involved in combating diploma mills.
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