DELAWARE CORPORATIONS, WYOMING UNIVERSITIES? University Diaries continues her useful service identifying states that offer a friendly environment for proprietary universities of dubious rigor. Apparently state officials in the Equality State are troubled with taking equality to extremes.

“There will always be people who want the credentials with a minimum of effort, and there will always be those who will provide them with a pretty parchment with ribbons in exchange for money,” [Wyoming president Tom] Buchanan said at the annual honors convocation of the College of Arts and Sciences.

“At the University of Wyoming, we know we are not a business.”

I don't have time to fact-check that today, but I suspect I can find lots of retention boodle, diversity boondoggling, and athletic support quickly. Is Mr Buchanan prepared to back up his faculty if they take a hard line on grading?

Then to the reality. In a world where presidents and deans in the mid-majors routinely tell the story about the famous, but nonexistent, Princeton College of Law, how carefully are employers checking the credentials of their applicants? Perhaps the trainees with the diploma-mill credentials are no worse than those with the imprimatur of Enormous State or Expensive Ivy?