Inside Higher Ed has a story about the closing down of a diploma mill and how a lot of people are now worried that they will be outed for having simply purchased their education credentials.

As I see it, diploma mills are a terrible threat. They’re a threat to the prestige of schools that dispense real degrees. After all, if it turns out that people can do a good job without having those real credentials (as in the case of the admissions director at MIT who was forced to resign because she claimed a degree she really didn’t have), that makes people wonder if the credentials have anything to do with the ability to do the work. We can’t have that.