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Stalkers Attack Athabasca U. - Dennis Ruhl - 02-24-2009
A degreeinfo thread:
http://www.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?t=24650
Note that Athabasca preferred distance degrees because they are a distance only school. The may very well have considered a Columbia Pacific degree superior to many accredited degrees. At the time Harvard indicated a willingness to accept a CPU degree for admissions. How disgraceful is that.
I'm sure there are a whole raft of pre-accreditation Union Institute degrees there. It took like 15 years to get accreditation. Are these ones okay?
RE: Stalkers Attack Athabasca U. - ham - 02-24-2009
I used google to search athabascau.ca (who knows, their own search engine may be 'censored' and found actually only ONE hit about Warnborough: it isn't a teacher but a former student listed for having completed an earlier AU MBA and then pursuing a doctorate with Warnborough (2006).
I found no hits for 'pacific western' or 'columbia pacific'.
Quote:I will be applying more sunshine to this situation. If anyone else can uncover bogus/sub-standard degrees among Athabasca faculty, please let me know, so that I can have a longer list to present to the Government Minister in charge (with copy to the local newspapers...).
Another mythomaniac...
As well, I searched archived copies of the [/quote]personal page of the 'spotlighted' teacher with supposedly dodgy degrees (Lee Ann Keple), but I can't find a mention of the DBA they refer to.
http://www.athabascau.ca/html/staff/academic/ccas/keple.htm
RE: Stalkers Attack Athabasca U. - Dennis Ruhl - 02-26-2009
Quote:I will be applying more sunshine to this situation. If anyone else can uncover bogus/sub-standard degrees among Athabasca faculty, please let me know, so that I can have a longer list to present to the Government Minister in charge (with copy to the local newspapers...).
It would be considered unethical for the Minister of Advanced Education to comment on internal affairs of a university. The government appoints all but the ex officio board members and provides the bulk of funding but the universities are independent of government.