Monticello University
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Monticello University was an unaccredited diploma mill
incorporated in Hawaii
, but based Kansas
, whose operator Leslie Edwin Snell (aka Gretchen Snell Deckker) was found guilty in 2000 of issuing invalid degrees, and which Kansas has accused of being fake. The Circuit Court of the First Circuit in the State of Hawai ordered the university, amongst other orders, preventing it from claiming it was legally qualified to issue degrees, to declare that it utilises "erroneous or misleading advertising".
Operation Dipscam
listed the university as one of the top ten diploma mills in the United States.
Victims affected by the diploma mill include Babar Awan
, the Federal Law Minister of Pakistan.
Diploma mill
A diploma mill is an organization that awards academic degrees and diplomas with substandard or no academic study and without recognition by official educational accrediting bodies. The purchaser can then claim to hold an academic degree, and the organization is motivated by making a profit...
incorporated in Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
, but based Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
, whose operator Leslie Edwin Snell (aka Gretchen Snell Deckker) was found guilty in 2000 of issuing invalid degrees, and which Kansas has accused of being fake. The Circuit Court of the First Circuit in the State of Hawai ordered the university, amongst other orders, preventing it from claiming it was legally qualified to issue degrees, to declare that it utilises "erroneous or misleading advertising".
Operation Dipscam
Operation Dipscam
Operation DIPSCAM was a series of investigations carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the General Accounting Office, the Committee on Education and the Workforce and other agencies in the United States in the 1980s...
listed the university as one of the top ten diploma mills in the United States.
Victims affected by the diploma mill include Babar Awan
Babar Awan
Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan is the former Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Pakistan. He is also a senator in Pakistan's upper House of the Parliament, and a practicing lawyer and member of the Pakistan Peoples Party Central Executive Committee...
, the Federal Law Minister of Pakistan.
See also
- Thomas Jefferson Education FoundationThomas Jefferson Education FoundationThe Thomas Jefferson Education Foundation was a diploma mill run in the 1990s and based in South Dakota.-Diploma mill:According to John Bear, author of Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning, in 1998 the Thomas Jefferson Education Foundation ran an advertisement in USA Today for...
, a related fraudulent organisation - List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning