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An overwhelming 82 percent of research papers produced by academics in the humanities are never cited, according to a recent study. According to Inside Higher Ed, citations are the primary measure of a paper’s “scholarly impact.” The humanities, which include anthropology, archaeology, history, law and politics, literature, and the arts, has faced an overwhelmingly low citation rate in recent years. Recent studies have suggested that over 80 percent of humanities paper are never cited.

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Business Bureau used feline as experiment to expose Internet diploma mills:Cats get a bad rap on the Internet, frequently stereotyped as LOL ignoramuses, forever shredding grammar like a half-dead mouse in what the World Wide Web would have us believe is their endless quest for "cheezburgers." Despite the pigeon-holing, cats play piano on YouTube and have their own Facebook profiles, and kitties who tweet exhibit a working knowledge of sentence construction that challenges those of their human Twitter compatriots. So it was only a matter of time before a feline got around to earning an online high school equivalency diploma....

<p>When seeking mental health care, it’s important to check the background of any one-on-one counselor you are considering. It's not enough to simply eyeball training and degrees, one must always take steps to ensure that the counselor or doctor is, in fact, human.</p>

Two weeks ago when a judge struck down California's exit exam, 17-year-old Salvador Rodriguez thought he would be graduating from high school in June with his friends. But the state Supreme Court's decision Wednesday to reinstate the exit exam has thrown Salvador's diploma in limbo, again. The Richmond High School senior has taken the exam twice, but doesn't know if he passed his most recent try. "I'm anxious, nervous. There's a lot on my shoulders," said Salvador, who dreams of attending UC Berkeley. "In a way, it'd be cool to let us graduate, but that wouldn't be the honest answer....

List of the top party schools as compiled by the Princeton Review: 1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. Ohio University-Athens 3. Lehigh University 4. University of California-Santa Barbara 5. State University of New York at Albany 6. Indiana University-Bloomington 7. University of Mississippi 8. University of Iowa 9. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10. Loyola University New Orleans

There are regular cycles in the business world: times of growth, times of retrenchment and times to challenge the value of the MBA degree, which has long been the ticket to a top leadership position in corporate America. The master's degree in business administration is once again under fire, and Henry Mintzberg, a noted management guru and professor at McGill University, of Montreal, is leading the charge. His recent book "Managers Not MBAs" reminds us of the old joke that MBA also can stand for "Master of Barely Anything." His sharpest criticism is that business schools have been churning out...

At least 28 senior-level federal employees in eight agencies have bogus college degrees, including three managers at the office that oversees nuclear weapons safety, congressional investigators have found.The problem is likely even bigger, mainly because the government has no uniform way to check whether employees' alma maters are diploma mills that require little, if any, academic work, the General Accounting Office reported. The names of the 28 senior-level workers have been forwarded to the offices of the inspectors general in their agencies for review. -- ASSOCIATED PRESS

Justice Department pursues diploma mills with fraud charges Federal law does not specifically outlaw diploma mills, but institutions that issue fake educational certificates can be charged with violating fraud or conspiracy laws, the Justice Department said in a letter sent to senior lawmakers early this month. In a March 2 letter, Assistant U.S. Attorney General William Moschella told Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., of cases involving two diploma mills that had been successfully prosecuted for violating fraud and conspiracy statutes. On January 12, 2004, Ronald Pellar pled guilty to nine counts of fraud for operating Columbia...

<p>A congressional investigation into whether federal employees have bogus college diplomas is expanding to the Defense Department.</p> <p>The General Accounting Office launched an investigation in July at the urging of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, initially looking at other federal agencies.</p>

<p>It turns out those diplomas came from degree mills, which are bogus universities that confer degrees for little or no study. When the mother followed his advice and took her daughter off insulin, the 8-year-old girl began vomiting and died.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. New studies indicate that the probable success achieved through a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) may not be worth the investment spent obtaining the degree. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a Stanford University business professor, contended that achieving an MBA has little effect on graduates' salaries or career success. His research is scheduled for publication in the fall edition of the journal Academy of Management Learning and Education. Penn State's Smeal College of Business was ranked ninth in the most recent study by Business Week for the fastest return on investment from an MBA....