28 Top Federal Workers Have Bogus College Degrees

[CrimsonTide4]

http://www.wftv.com/news/3291376/det...105112004&ts=H



WASHINGTON -- At least 28 senior-level federal employees in eight agencies have bogus college degrees, including three managers at the office that oversees nuclear weapons safety, congressional investigators have found.

The problem is likely even bigger, mainly because the government has no uniform way to check whether employees' alma maters are "diploma mills" that require little, if any, academic work, the General Accounting Office reported.

The findings by the investigative arm of Congress were to be presented to a Senate committee Tuesday.

An earlier GAO report revealed how easy it is to buy a degree from a diploma mill; this one shows high-level federal workers securing such degrees at taxpayer expense. The tally was $169,471 at just two of the schools.



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HMPH!!!!

Lemme go and roll up some pennies so i can get me an advanced degree.

[msn4med1975]

Considering how much my life has been consumed over the last five years working on my degrees this is VERY annoying but NOT surprising. Folks in this country are always looking for a way to get over. And if all they have to do is pay for a degree then they'd gladly do it.

[AKA2D '91]

More likely than not, they received these degrees "online". I read one article last week where 2 schools were supposedly located in the NO area. I know there are many universities in and around the city. The 2 listed, I had NEVER heard of...EVER!



If folx are paying for bogus transcripts and bogus grades, why would bogus degrees be a surprise?

[blackerican]

Originally posted by laidbackfella
Lemme go and roll up some pennies so i can get me an advanced degree.

I'm with you. I've already got about $50 worth wrapped!!! And to think, all the money I'm spending to get my degree !!!

[Toujours_Jolie]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4

WASHINGTON -- At least 28 senior-level federal employees in eight agencies have bogus college degrees, including three managers at the office that oversees nuclear weapons safety, congressional investigators have found.


Well, at least it's nothing important. They're only overseeing
NUCLEAR weapons safety.

UGH! As if having nuclear weapons in existence isn't bad enough without having liars and otherwise ill-suited individuals safeguarding us against them.

[James]

But what if they are doing a competent job lol? Does that matter? We are kind of degree happy in the US. So much so that degrees don't mean much except, "You may Apply."


ETA: forget i wrote this, i just actually read the article lol.