Author: Alan Contreras
Alan Contreras is administrator of the Oregon Office of Degree Authorization, a unit of the Oregon Student Assistance Commission. His writing on topics related to higher education appears regularly in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the International Higher Education, and Inside Higher Education. His views do not necessarily represent those of the Commission.
Protestant Diploma Mills
In the eighteen years that I have worked in higher education, including ten years as an academic program evaluator, I have never encountered a Catholic diploma mill. Well, I do know of one literally Byzantine e ntity in Minnesota, but broadly speaking, all bottom-feeder unaccredited colleges that issue substandard religious degrees are Protestant. They are …