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Basket Weaver · #4 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 03:39 AM

Freaking great...the town of Beaumont is exactly 13 miles from where I grew up...and the college (Lamar University) is where my sister received her RN. I'm never going to hear the end of this.

Brian, I too understand what the intent was of the article, however that's not what it said...in fact it was quite clear in calling CCU a diploma mill.

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Chavez said the number of "diploma mills" or institutions that award academic degrees with substandard or no academic study are on the rise, prompting the legislation that makes using degrees from these schools illegal. The law went into effect on Sept. 1, 2005. Advertisement

Chavez said many people who patronize these so-called "diploma mills" are knowingly committing fraud, but many others are unwittingly duped.

He said the incidents involving Sisk and Hebert illustrate the need for potential higher education students to do their homework before they enroll in any school, especially obscure, for-profit universities.

Chavez said the higher education coordinating board's lists of accredited and non-accredited schools are a good place to start.

"When people buy cars or televisions, they do research before they buy and they should be doing the same things with their higher educations," he said. "Check out the school. Find out what kind of students they are producing. Make sure you will be getting a quality degree."

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California Coast University is one on a list of about 400 institutions compiled by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that have not been approved and whose degrees cannot be used in Texas. In fact, degrees from those institutions are described as "fraudulent" or "substandard."

I don't want to be forced to defend the college everytime its name gets drug through the mud. Finding a job after I retire will be difficult enough without employers thinking I have a bogus degree.

I will be calling CCU today, they need to take action on this.