11-05-2010, 11:55 AM
According to this recent press release, California attorney general Jerry "Gov. Moonbeam" Brown is looking into George Gollin's activities. Also, an unnamed Princeton spokesman has declared Gollin's alleged Princeton degree to be "null and void," not unlike his character.
Quote:More scandals surrounding CHEA director and University of Illinois professor George Gollin
University of Illinois professor George Gollin uses fake doctorate degree to teach physics
BriefingWire.com, 9/06/2010 - Further investigation by California attorney general Jerry Brown into Central District Court case number 2:2010cv01791, exposing University of Illinois physics professor and Council for Higher Education Accreditation director George D. Gollin as a fake college accreditation scheme mastermind, reveals that professor Gollin appears to be teaching physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign using a Princeton doctoral degree obtained under suspect circumstances.
Gollin submitted as his individual work a doctoral dissertation co-authored with fifteen (15) other people. Princeton's policy concerning doctoral dissertations is that the work must be independent, not collaborative.
A Princeton spokesperson said that collaborative dissertations are disallowed under all circumstances, and that degrees obtained by collaborative effort should be considered null and void.
Possibly the University of Illinois became aware of the fraud and has put Gollin on a sabbatical leave since late 2009. According to his own website, professor Gollin now uses his extra time to write a book about his own version of the accreditation fraud that led to his indictment in the first place.
None of the 23 pages in the book discuss George Gollin's own prominent role in selling bogus college degrees and fake African accreditation certificates as documented in Central District Court case number 2:2010cv01791. On the contrary, the book admonishes readers to even believe that his role was to prevent the sale of bogus diplomas.
