Douglas and the Truth?

[ham]

Or do they consider physics too technical and that education is just bullshit anyways so they don't apply any standards.

If it's a particle physics thesis, 15 people can give you a hand...after all it's 'how it's done' in that field...

[Duggle]

Does anyone really know Union's policy on accepting 20 year old coursework?  

Found through Google:

http://www.tui.edu/pdf/GradLearnerHandbook.pdf

(2004; time appropriate.  For current policies, see: www.unioninstitute.edu/pdf/CohortLearnerHandbook.pdf )

[Someone]

In this "lesson on ethics" below, is Rich Douglas talking about himself and his fake 9-month program and substandard dissertation supervised by a fake committee?

Is he referring to the fake Ph.D. degree he's been boasting and his false claims that he is an "educator"?

I'm sure glad his phony qualifications are not in aviation.

Douglas's lesson on ethics at DD:

"These are educators, right? I mean, we're talking about people in the profession defrauding the public with fake credentials relevant to the profession.

If a pilot with only a private pilot's license faked a commercial pilot's license and flew for an airline, would the airline tolerate it when it was found out? Of course not. But these people--educational leaders charged with developing boys and girls into adults--keep their jobs. They just have to cut away the really smelly parts."

[ham]

But these people--educational leaders charged with developing boys and girls into adults--keep their jobs.

Well...Thomas Chip White (owner of degreeinfo ) does his best to help "boys"...70+ gay teen porn DVDs are his educational legacy...

[Fort Bragg]

Douglas's lesson on ethics at DD:

"
If a pilot with only a private pilot's license faked a commercial pilot's license and flew for an airline, would the airline tolerate it when it was found out? Of course not. But these people--educational leaders charged with developing boys and girls into adults--keep their jobs. They just have to cut away the really smelly parts."

Why is it that the guys who did the least to earn their degree demand the highest standard from others.

Perhaps a better analogy is someone who took lessons for a private pilot's license was granted a commercial license by a committee of a ship's captain, a truck driver, and a bricklayer. But then that would be Douglas himself.

[tenuredprof]

Average length to completion of PhD.  Not 9 months.  More like 90 months.

I think it's simply a matter of time before RD finds himself without a Ph.D.

How much time?  It's been more than 5 years.

Here's an article that seems to refer to the same "short-cut" issue.

http://tinyurl.com/3ez4ku

[Fort Bragg]

I think the commercialization of education, including the non-profits, has led the doctorate to become a readily attainable degree. I think anyone average brains can through patience work his way through a doctoral program. 30 years ago only the best and brightest could dream of a doctorate. Back then schools would hand out a dozen or two a year. Now they grant hundreds.

I know people today are walking around with business doctorates for less work in the field than a bachelors degree 30-40 years ago. An irrelevant bachelors is followed with a quicky MBA followed by a quicky DBA. Next to no math, accounting, or the hard stuff.

[tenuredprof]

Average length to completion of PhD.  Not 9 months.  More like 90 months.

I think it's simply a matter of time before RD finds himself without a Ph.D.

How much time?  It's been more than 5 years.

Here's an article that seems to refer to the same "short-cut" issue.

http://tinyurl.com/3ez4ku

Committee to examine how the Ph.D. was awarded

On Wednesday, Louisville President James Ramsey announced the formation of a blue-ribbon committee to examine how the Ph.D. was awarded, calling it “an issue that strikes at the heart of our institutional integrity.”

reports about a degree awarded to a school superintendent with connections to Felner raise questions about whether university policies were followed. As the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Wednesday, Felner oversaw the dissertation of a Ph.D. student who managed to earn a doctoral degree from the university after just a single semester of study at Louisville. The student, John Deasy, had steered a $375,000 contract toward Felner’s center two years earlier, when Deasy was superintendent of California’s Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, the Courier-Journal reported.

Louisville’s student graduate handbook notes that “at least two years of study must be spent at the University of Louisville” to earn a Ph.D., but the university “made the exception” in this case, according to Willinghanz, the provost.

John White, a spokesman for Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland, where Deasy is superintendent, said Wednesday that Deasy transferred prior credits from other institutions and had legitimately earned the doctorate.

“They awarded the doctorate,” he says. “It’s hanging on the wall… He did his work, he got his doctorate, the university approved it, and if [reporters] have questions about the process they need to ask the university.”

Asked about the degree awarded to Deasy, Willinghanz acknowledges that the university is now looking at everything that happened under Felner with a skeptical eye.

“I think it makes us curious about looking into everything,” she says.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/...louisville

[ham]

John White, a spokesman for Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland, where Deasy is superintendent, said Wednesday that Deasy transferred prior credits from other institutions and had legitimately earned the doctorate.

too bad all universities I know require TWO years MINIMUM...that has nothing to do with prior credit.

[tenuredprof]

In this "lesson on ethics" below, is Rich Douglas talking about himself and his fake 9-month program and substandard dissertation supervised by a fake committee?

Carnegie Mellon University has rescinded a master’s degree...

that was awarded inappropriately in 2004. The degree was awarded based on transfer and independent study credits that exceeded limits set by university regulations. While the university has not said who received the degree, a report indicated that it was someone who the then-dean of the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management thought could be helpful to the school, the Carnegie Mellon unit that awarded the degree.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08353/936045-100.stm