U. of Illinois Administrators Ask Professor to Remove Web Site About Diploma Mills
| Title: | U. of Illinois Administrators Ask Professor to Remove Web Site About Diploma Mills (ID: CSD2998) | | Author(s): | Andrea Foster (The Chronicle of Higher Education) | | Topics: | Accreditation | | Origin: | Community Contributions (2003) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | A physics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken down a Web site with research on diploma mills after meeting with university administrators. According to George Gollin, officials from the university ordered him to remove the Web site from university servers after some of the institutions profiled threatened to sue the university. A spokesperson from the university denied that Gollin was ordered to shut down the site, saying, "We were trying to help him find a more appropriate place for his Web site." She noted that because Gollin is a professor of physics, the issue of diploma mills and accreditation falls outside his area of expertise and does not meet the university's public-service requirement. Gollin's work will now be available on the State of Oregon's Office of Degree Authorization site. Alan Contreras, administrator of that site, called the research "superb" and said it is "a very helpful consumer-protection tool." | | View this resource: | |
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