Degree Mill Credential Backfires

[Alpha]

This guy got away with it for a while but it looks like he's about to be in big trouble.  Greed got him in the end.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/investigat...e-2463081/

[ss20ts]

Aren't you supposed to vet potential employees before they're hired and not after they've left employment? Seems like a whole bunch of people messed up on hiring him and promoting him.

[freeloader]

From the article:

“Mr. Fudenberg did not claim to have any college degrees in applications to the County, and we were not aware of him making such claims with anyone else,” county spokesman Dan Kulin wrote in an email.

So, this was just a guy padding his resume to sounds more impressive. Didn’t need a bachelor’s degree to become coroner (which is kind of shocking) and didn’t claim to have one.

I actually find his choice of business degrees interesting. I also wonder how strategic that was. If I were hiring a coroner, I feel like I would want someone with degrees in a relevant field, such as forensics, criminology/law enforcement, biology, anatomy, perhaps nursing. Something that would show expertise in the area in which that person is purportedly an expert. This guy went the opposite direction. I am sure he managed a staff and a budget, so an MBA is not TOTALLY irrelevant. I wonder if he was thinking something like “if I claim a BA in biology and a masters in forensic sciences, people will care about this and check up on it; nobody really cares about me claiming Business degrees”. That, or the Business degrees were easier/cheaper to get from the degree mill.

[bjcheung77]

Many corporations don't have quality checks in place, the same goes for public agencies, it's really sad that so many go through the cracks and the only way to get to them is when they "make a news worthy mistake". By the time someone is onto the quality check/verification of credentials, it's too late, they've either jumped ship or gone abroad...

[MichaelGates]

Aren't you supposed to vet potential employees before they're hired and not after they've left employment? Seems like a whole bunch of people messed up on hiring him and promoting him.

Many of those who do interviews have no clue when it comes to degrees. I went to an interview and the person thought my Bachelors was fake because he thought Excelsior College in New York was not real. He said he knew the New York system as he had a degree from Regents College in New York and there was no Excelsior College. We both went to the same college. Regents College was renamed Excelsior College, then Excelsior University and I have not checked to see what they are calling themselves this week. The guy could not even keep track of the current name of his own college.