For some reason I stumbled on the biography of "Dr." John Gray on Wikipedia yesterday. He's the author of the famous (and lucrative) "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" series of self-help books. I put "Dr." in quotes above because it seems Mr. Gray acquired his degree from a diploma mill.
This reminded me of a controversy that erupted in 2004, about Hamilton University -- another diploma mill that counted a senior government IT manager and the CEO of Cessna Aircraft among its graduates. The government official at least had the decency to resign in disgrace. And Jack Pelton (the Cessna CEO) at least removed the degrees from his official biography.
Mr. Gray however continues to publish as "John Gray, Ph.D." and refers to himself as "Dr. John Gray" on his web site.
All this crap is really too bad -- Cessna makes some nice planes under Jack Pelton, and maybe John Gray has a some interesting things to say. I will never trust either of them however, as they both thought it was perfectly OK to lie in a big, big way.
This reminded me of a controversy that erupted in 2004, about Hamilton University -- another diploma mill that counted a senior government IT manager and the CEO of Cessna Aircraft among its graduates. The government official at least had the decency to resign in disgrace. And Jack Pelton (the Cessna CEO) at least removed the degrees from his official biography.
Mr. Gray however continues to publish as "John Gray, Ph.D." and refers to himself as "Dr. John Gray" on his web site.
All this crap is really too bad -- Cessna makes some nice planes under Jack Pelton, and maybe John Gray has a some interesting things to say. I will never trust either of them however, as they both thought it was perfectly OK to lie in a big, big way.
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