A press release sent to my in-box Wednesday afternoon noted Gov. Jim Doyle signed Senate Bill 431 into law during a ceremony on the UW-Eau Claire campus.
The legislation, which prohibits the establishment of bogus degree mills or the use of false academic credentials in Wisconsin, was authored by Sen. Fred Risser D-Madison and Rep. Kim Hixson D-Whitewater.
“This legislation is designed to protect employers, consumers and the quality of higher education in the State of Wisconsin,” Hixson, a UW-Whitewater professor who serves as the Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, trumpeted in the release.