Most schools, colleges and universities have thriving alumni assocations. These provide excellent peer-group networking opportunities and reunion meetings for far-flung ex-colleagues.
To assist an apparently large group of unfairly disadvantaged would-be networkers, I propose to start a special alumnus group, the DDA (Dodgy Diploma Association). Membership is open only to those who have cleverly bought their qualification from a diploma mill, without the sometimes tedious years of study endured by more normal folk.
The meetings would be an eye opener: bogus lawyers, bent executives, dodgy social climbers, all sharing in their hugely inflated success stories. Potential police presence might be a worry, but hey, if it hasn't worried them in the past.......-- phlogiston, Mar 24 2004 At the reunion we don't have to eat steak and green beans, we can eat whatever we want because WE MADE IT, man!-- dpsyplc, Mar 24 2004 A further thought. With an annual membership fee of $49, a huge global membership base and a purely virtual presence, this might be an even bigger earner than the bogus diploma mills themselves.-- phlogiston, Mar 24 2004 They also have to send out fancy magazines with touched up photos that show alumni together with made up celebrities.-- kbecker, Mar 24 2004 ...and provide laminated cards for your wallet, and pleather jackets with crests.-- lintkeeper2, Mar 24 2004 Maybe a slogan: "eo refercio, rite hac".-- dpsyplc, Mar 24 2004 And no fund-raising drives to build a new lecture theatre either...-- hippo, Mar 25 2004 [Unabbuba], is that "I went to Harvaad and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"?-- theircompetitor, Mar 25 2004 Is there an association for honorary degree holders, too?-- FarmerJohn, Mar 25 2004 There is a t-shirt they sell hereabouts that has a big crest, some pig latin, and the words "University of Life" underneath it.-- DrCurry, Mar 25 2004 I have a real degree, but I would like to hang out with all those colourful and shady characters. Do I need a fake fake degree to get in?-- spidermother, Feb 03 2011 Well, [spidermother], I see no reason why you couldn't get a fake degree to put up on your wall beside your real one.-- In No Particular Order, Feb 05 2011 random, halfbakery