The ongoing saga of education leaders using titles earned at "diploma mills" took two turns yesterday. In the State House, the legislature voted 34-0 to prevent educators from receiving raises and tuition reimbursement for degrees earned at unaccredited "universities". Then down the street, the NJ Higher Education Commission ordered six more educators to stop using titles earned at the schools.
The latest group includes an instructor of psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Cherry Hill and an assistant professor at St. Peter's College.
Two work in the Freehold Regional High School District, where the district's superintendent relinquished his Ph.D. after it was questioned.
Officials believe several of the degrees came from so-called diploma mills.
Long-time blog readers will remember this story first broke during the summer, when the Freehold Superintendent was found to have received tuition reimbursement, a raise, and a subsequent retirement boost for a degree earned at an on-line school. Another Shore area educator earned his Master's degree after submitting a resume` and a paper that was described as being "two, maybe three pages" long.
