As of March 2024, Collegium Humanum is under compulsory governmental administration due to various academic fraud and corruption charges, chiefly selling MBA titles.
[5] In 2020, Collegium Humanum received the "Pro Masovia" Commemorative Medal for its particular contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of the wider Mazovia Region.
[6] Since 2020, Collegium Humanum has been a signatory to PRME (the Principles for Responsible Management Education),[7][8] an international forum of leading business universities from around the world operating under the auspices of the United Nations, whose aims are to shape global attitudes of social responsibility among future leaders across business, politics and other dimensions of public life.
[9][10] Since 2020, Collegium Humanum has been also a member of CEEMAN, the International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies.
[23] As of mid-March 2024, collegium Humanum is under compulsory administration by the authorities[24] and, from summer on, not allowed to issue certificates and degrees.
[25] In 2022, the Polish Newsweek started to publish reports on Collegium Humanum functioning as a degree mill.
[29] While first investigations started in late 2022,[30] large scale prosecution by CBA took place in February 2024, with seven management cadres, among them provost Paweł Czarnecki, being arrested as a suspect criminal association.
Due to a legal change in 2017, candidates for board membership in public sector companies had to come up with a MBA, in many cases issued by the newly established C.H within just a few month period of enrollment and for a fraction of the usual cost.
[44][45] Collegium Humanum is reported to have functioned in an international network of private educational institutions of dubious repute,[46][47] while maintaining branches in Austria[48] as well as in Post-communist countries, among them Czechia, Slovakia[49] and Uzbekistan.
[50] The university awarded numerous distinctions to well-known figures in show business such as the singer Doda and Irena Santor as a marketing scheme.
Additionally, the university honored politician Tomasz Misiak, who is known for his involvement in numerous scandals[51] and is facing criminal charges[52][53] in Wrocław, with a Medal of Success.
Misiak was actively involved in the university's life and remained associated with the institution by giving lectures, interviews, and speeches on its behalf.
scandal:"The example of Collegium Humanum looks extreme in its naked opportunism, but it would seem to point to a broader problem of over-reliance on credentials as a proxy for skill, and the blurring of the lines between academic accreditation (useful as that can be) and business acumen.