"[Jack Pelton] was hired under the assumption that his
engineering degrees were accredited. Should we all buy our degrees?
If so there is going to be alot of burning holes in the
ground."
Source: Anonymous poster on a Textron message
board, one day after Jack Pelton, CEO of the company's Cessna
division, was "outed" by CBS for obtaining his two degrees from a
diploma mill. Pelton's biography states he obtained his bachelor's
and master's degrees in aeronautical engineering from Hamilton
University in Evanston, WY. The CBS News program "60 Minutes"
Wednesday night reported Hamilton U. is housed in an abandoned
motel -- one of thousands of diploma mills offering fake degrees on
the internet.
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