Sometimes, no doubt, you may feel that all your hard work at college is for nothing. The beer guzzling, smoking, and football games can really be grueling after all. In all seriousness though, sometimes it does feel seem like a lot of work for little reward. The next time you feel this way, however, remember twenty-five students who attended a satellite program of North Carolina Central University at Bishop Eddie Long’s Lithonia megachurch and were recently told that their degrees would be worthless.

In June, the school closed after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools decided to lay down the law and refuse to sanction it. Long followed with a statement saying, “Regrettably, the university did not seek appropriate approvals at that time prior to launching the program.” Regrettably? Long is gonna have to do better than that.

The director of distance education at NCCU, Kimberly Phifer-McGhee, claims that she does not know how the school started or from where it obtained funding, though it is known that former Chancellor James Ammons, the current president of Florida A&M, headed the university at the time. Apparently, it’s just a huge mystery how a university program was initiated, recruited students, and yet had no system to prove its professors’ competencies, testing standards, or proof of adequate resources. The school, which offered apparently illegitimate degrees in criminal justice, hospitality, and business, had hired professors without coursework in the subjects which they were to teach.

So thirty page paper? Midterm? Pssh. That’s nothing.