Business Week – Wisconsin plan aims to stop use of phony degrees

Business Week reports on Wisconsin’s efforts to outlaw using ‘bogus academic degrees’, which would make it ‘the 12th state to make it a crime’:

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would crack down on the manufacture and use of phony academic credentials in Wisconsin by criminalizing both practices.

The goal is to stop the spread of diploma mills, which essentially sell phony academic degrees to students who perform little work. [The] bill would give regulators and law enforcement officials more power to stop them.

A bill introduced in Congress last month with bipartisan support would prohibit the federal government from hiring anyone with bogus credentials and give the Federal Trade Commission more power to regulate diploma mills.

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