One year ago, on December 10, 2020, the Wet Mountain Tribune published a story questioning the credentials of the Custer County Public Health Director, Clifford Brown. The article specifically questioned Brown’s claim that he had a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from a Dartley University. Brown had publicly listed his MPH education at Dartley University on his Linked-in profile. Dartley University is a known degree mill and Tribune research over the past year has shown that Brown likely paid the Dartley University degree mill for a degree and transcripts that are designed to look official but are fraudulent. Before the Tribune went to press with the story in December 2020, Publisher Jordan Hedberg spent three weeks asking Brown and County Attorney Clint Smith to…
