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Palano has a registered nursing diploma, has been married for 27 years to a mechanic at a General Electric plant in Pittsfield, had four children of her own and took in two foster children. Tragedy seems to have stalked her: her mother left home when Palano was nine, she lost a daughter to cancer and she suffered a spinal injury in an auto crash, which forced her to spend her life on crutches. None of this has stopped her from going back to school, first to a community college and then, in 1980, transferring to Smith's innovative degree...
...UNIVERSITY has received more than its fair share of publicity ever since model Brooke Shields' arrival on the campus. Yet in recent months. Princeton has received press coverage that examines more than a certain undergraduate's wardrobe. Last year, Gabrielle Napolitano challenged the university's decision to withold her diploma after a professor accused her of plagiarism...
...they can take half the city of Cambridge without paying taxes, then they can give Rosa Parks an honorary diploma," he said Saturday, referring to the University's tax-exempt status...
Seniors entering the job market this spring may be competing with other "graduates" who have never gone to college. Their alma matters are "diploma mills" which the FBI suspects have sold tens of thousands of phony degrees throughout the country...
...started its "DIPSCAM" investigation three years ago when it unearthed its first diploma mill, "South Eastern University" in Greenville, S.C., said Robert L. Pence, agent in charge of the FBI in North Carolina. Since then, the FBI has discovered 41 more diploma mills in 15 states. But so far it has only indicted two operators...