Why do so many people go back to college years after their due age? Why do mothers go back to education after raising their kids? The answer lies in this simple fundamental truth ? a college degree represents an unfulfilled opportunity to realize one's dreams. As countless people from across the world have realized, having a college education means increased self sufficiency, never having to depend on anyone else for anything. It can open doors to a great career ahead, can improve financial conditions and most importantly brings about a sense of well being and having an identity of one's own.
Whether it is to start a new business, or just to learn something interesting, a college education is a must. You might think that you could get away without a college degree. Maybe for the time being, but sooner or later the lack of a college education is going to catch up with you. Statistics have shown that there is a significant difference between people with a college education and those without. For example, people who had a college education were less likely to suffer from mental disorders like depression, they had a higher sense of well being, were more likely to participate in society and social gatherings and in general were more apt and equipped to take care of the family. On the other hand, people who lacked a college degree had a sense of directionless in their lives and a general lack of purpose to it. They also suffered from bouts of depression, leading to alcoholism, drugs and smoking as well as other bad habits. These people were more likely to be fickle minded and unprepared to raise their children and take care of the family.
Not only is a college degree a gateway to one's dreams, it also has a significant impact in the long term. With more competition today, a college education can help a person gain confidence and have a chance in today's harsh business climate. With college education one is intellectually stimulated to explore new concepts and ideas. It sharpens the brain to think further, delve into subjects, thus making one more knowledgeable. College graduates converse better with others and as a result are more sociable. A college education also helps a person to network and build contacts. This really helps while starting out on a career search. Once in a job, a college education will help improve chances of a promotion.
If you wish for a well paying job, with good perks, a comfortable life, a certain standard of living and a happy domestic life, a college education can give you all that and more. It can mean a better salary, which means more frequent vacations, more enjoyment in life, maybe a cruise or an exotic trip to a fancy island. A college education can be the passport to a better life ? and once you're enjoying this quality of life, there's no going back. It just gets better with time!
"Diploma mill: An institution of higher education operating without supervision of a state or professional agency and granting diplomas which are either fraudulent or, because of the lack of proper standards, worthless..."
Many con men have found the lucrative field of diploma mills--or degree mills--to be as good as gold. In pursuing this line of con man endeavor they simply practice Harley's First Law: You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something. Think of how ridiculous this whole concept is: just apply on the internet for a college degree and in a finger-snap moment, when accompanied by a small fee, you have it. No fuss. No bother. No strain. Why, then, bother to attend college for four years or longer if your college education can be this quick and easy? This whole notion is so hard to swallow--seemingly, a mystery solvable only by Scooby-Doo--yet it thrives.
Many of the "home" addresses of these hoax perpetrators are nothing more than a post office box or "mail drop." Remote regions of the U.S., like Montana, which has loose standards, are often used to locate these "institutions of higher learning." Alabama, Hawaii, Idaho, Wyoming, Mississippi, and California, too, have either few standards or excessive loopholes. Mississippi has no oversight at all.
Unfamiliar European locations are also popular with the con men, who, without conscience or any moral standard to guide them, simply fall back on their basic principle: that money is the root of all wealth. They then follow this path accordingly: easy as falling-off-a-log education.
Now you see it, now you don't. This particular magician's appearance / vanishing act only proves Murphy's Law of Combat #12: If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush. A great many people get their fake degrees revealed.
Who bites? Who actually believes that a counterfeit college education can have any benefit for them?
In analyzing why people believe this you could say, "my mother might believe that. My priest might believe that. Sponge Bob might believe that. Most people won't." Wrong! You'd be amazed at the number of people who have jumped at such "opportunities." Perhaps, like so many others, they think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their own prejudices. Envy? Jealousy.? Greed? Who knows? Off the top, here is just a sampling:
> A North Carolina man whose degree-verified medical clinic treated an 8-year old girl who died.
> Parlaying a $100 degree he'd "earned" from a British degree mill, another North Carolina man raised venture capital to market an AIDs drug. He raised millions before getting caught.
> A San Clemente, California man raked in $10,000,000. He ran a fake degree operation that was located 2,000 miles from his home, in Louisiana.
Some of these scam schools also provide a complete transcript. Some provide phone operators who will verify graduation to inquiring employers. Some will supply laminated student I.D. cards, and other proof-of-attendance records. A few even offer class rings.
With only some 35% of U.S. corporations systematically verifying degrees as factual, is it any wonder why such a big market for fake college degrees exists?
If you try to fail and succeed, which have you accomplished? That's a good question for all the people who are participating right alongside the con men in perpetrating this in-your-face scam.
This whole exercise seems like standing in a bucket and trying to lift yourself up by the handle.
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