Why is Ivy Tech State College in Indiana known as a Diploma Mill?
Because if instructors don’t give passing grades to black students, their teaching contracts are not renewed. Also because Ivy Tech made an agreement with the Carpenter’s Union that if they would register all of their students at Ivy Tech, they would all be assured of getting good grades, with no failures. They registered over 800 carpenter apprentices and the grade fraud was discovered and a former teacher scanned all of the grade rosters showing almost straight A’s in all of their classes and published them on a website he made called www.ivytechfraud.com. It caused such a scandal that it was published on the front page of all the major Indiana newspapers in 2003 and resulted in a trial where the webmaster was forced to take down the scanned images because it was such a terrible embarrassment to the college and to the Carpenters’ Union. Because of the embarrassment, the Carpenters’ Union withdrew all 800 apprentices from Ivy Tech in 2003, and this also was reported in the newspapers.
