A newly proposed piece of legislation is aimed at shutting down ‘diploma mills.’ A bill introduced by Congressman Tim Bishop (D-NY) calls for reducing and preventing “the sale and use of fraudulent degrees in order to protect the integrity of valid higher education degrees that are used for Federal employment purposes.”

Diploma mills issue worthless degrees that are “tricking students out of hard-earned dollars and deceiving employers by falsely claiming an attained level of skill or achievement,” Bishop says on his Web site.

To put an end to diploma mills, the legislation is directed at:

• legally defining what it means to be a degree-granting institution
• legally defining what it means to be a legitimate accrediting agency
• granting additional authority to the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on them.

You can view the piece of legislation by clicking here.

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