Most of us have heard of diploma mills. That’s where someone hands over a couple hundred bucks and receives a diploma for “life experience.” It is a nothing diploma and either the employment candidate is trying to pull a fast one or they truly don’t know they have spent their money for nothing. Diploma mills are common and can hand you a degree either for the aforesaid life experience or for answering a few easy questions.
But we know that diploma mills are bogus. However, with community colleges it is quite another story. We believe that they are accredited. We believe they will deliver what a job applicant will need to show viable proof of an advanced education.
But, unfortunately, this is not always the case. As evidenced in the recent article in the Los Angeles Times, some community colleges are losing accreditation. In California, this is becoming the case with far too many of its community colleges. Notes the article…”Of California’s 112 community colleges, one, College of the Sequoias in the Central Valley town of Visalia, is operating under the most serious penalty — “show cause” — meaning the college is substantially out of compliance with requirements and must correct deficiencies to remain accredited. Five other colleges are on probationary status, and 13 have been given warnings.”
Time for these schools to clean up their act. It’s difficult enough finding a job without students discovering after the fact that their time spent going to college may have been wasted.