CHAPTER 3: CAREER DEVELOPMENT, ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND COUNTERFEIT CREDENTIALS: UNDERSTANDING THE CONNECTIONS

[...]I examine the role that career development professionals play in promoting academic integrity and professional ethics to their clients. [...]many post-secondary institutions now have programs and supports available to students to help them understand how to uphold and enact academic integrity throughout their schooling. In 2016, an individual in the United States was charged with "wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with a worldwide 'diploma mill' scheme that collected at least approximately $140 million from tens of thousands of consumers" (United States Department of Justice: The United States Attorney's Office - Southern District of New York, 2016, p.l). [...]students can be duped into taking educational programs with no value if they fall prey to predatory educational providers whose primary intentions are to generate a profit, rather than to help students learn.