Degree scandals

Degree scandals

Sep 01, 2017
U of Arizona professor's Ph.D. is revoked after her findings on violent video games are questioned. Some wonder if her mentor and co-author is also to blame.

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September 1, 2017
U of Arizona professor's Ph.D. is revoked after her findings on violent video games are questioned. Some wonder if her mentor and co-author is also to blame.
October 12, 2015
Academics need to embrace the facts in their classrooms about important social issues, however risky it may be, writes Steve Wolverton.
August 21, 2013
Disgraced professor renews the discussion over whether those leading the field should have degrees in it.
February 14, 2012
Stories about colleges in New York and North Dakota highlight the lack of independent authority overseeing the quality of universities’ efforts abroad.
October 12, 2011
Two top officials of community college are found to have doctorates from unaccredited institutions, raising questions about why nobody noticed their credentials before, and why no rules appear to be broken.
July 20, 2011
Edison State awarded degrees to students who didn't complete requirements, raising concerns that pressure to raise graduation rates could produce such incidents.
September 16, 2008
A dance scholar -- who had previously taught at 2 universities and won acclaim for work with China -- quits after discovery that she didn't have the education she listed.
September 8, 2008
37 exceptions to rules were made to graduate Richmond's then chief of police without his having completed requirements.
September 2, 2008
Initial audit finds problems with 10 percent of the executive MBA's awarded by the university.
August 19, 2008
First there was West Virginia. Then Virginia Commonwealth. Now Carnegie Mellon -- where apparent fudging of rules leads to a dean's immediate resignation.

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