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A matter of degree: Worker loses stipend
At the Fort Worth school district, colleagues refer to district employee Michael J. Byrd as "Dr. Byrd." The intervention specialist, who helps families in crisis, also has received a $600 annual doctoral stipend every year since 2002, when he informed the district that he earned his doctoral degree in psychology, district records show. But now, Dr. Byrd has been demoted to Mr. Byrd. Byrd, 44, of Fort Worth received his degree from LaSalle University. But not from the well-known LaSalle University in Philadelphia.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/11653644.htm 30 05 05 09:18 EmployACT Announces Education Verification for Employment Screening
The new EmployACT Web site focuses on education verification to help companies with prospective employee screening for job applicants whose resumes may boast of fake diplomas or ones from a diploma mill. %u201COur employment screening process will put the diploma mills out of business,%u201D said Samuel Anderson, CEO at Employact.com. Its proactive, patent-pending education verification technology provides the only service on the Web that can authenticate job hunters%u2019 past and present employment and education in real time. EmployACT only certifies trusted and accredited or licensed institutions and is poised to become the world%u2019s most trusted and comprehensive place for employment screening.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/5/emw240513.htm 09:11 Stephanson claims he got his learnin' from CPU
Another Politician is using a phony degree to blow smoke up the folks ass up in Washington State. Mayor Ray Stephanson of Everett Washington is running for re-election this year. We know very little about him other than he claims to have a BA Degree from the infamous Diploma Mill, Columbia Pacific University. "It was another 10 years after that before he earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Columbia Pacific University of Novato, Calif." The best list of unaccredited schools can be found on the Oregon State, Office of Degree Authorization website. http://www.ossc.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.html In GAO-04-771T Diploma Mills: Federal Employees Have Obtained Degrees ... The Department of Homeland Security considers those who have obtained such degrees as potential security risks. We agree. For more informations google: "columbia pacific university" homeland security 08:58
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