8 years - what about 5 months?

[Ben Johnson]

Harvard has implemented a policy to encourage doctoral sudents to graduate in 8 years by reducing enrollment in departments with students enrolled for over 8 years.

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/17/phd

What is Union going to do? Reduce the period to 4 months? Douglas has a real degree, doesn't he?

[Randall Flagg]

I accept the Douglas effort to be real, but much less than anything required by a good college. He padded the committee with people who wouldn't require excellence, and did just enough to get by, nothing more.

He would have us believe that what he did is similar to the RA experience at the typical Brick and Mortar University, and that is laughable.

The Harvard process has nothing in common with the Union process at all, though I'm sure he (Douglas) did all he was capable of. Schools like Union must exist, and it's probably a good thing, so that the more limited people have some place to buy their degrees (doctorates) from. He certainly paid a lot of money for a pointless title. I mean no one in the know would accept it as being good enough to be used as a doctorate. Needless to say he'll never teach at Harvard or Yale with that collection of substandard schools. It's almost as if he planned for second best, no, make that third best.

If a man truly believes that crap about RA being the only way, why in God's name wouldn't he have at least obtained one good degree rather than all that pointless collection of titles, that no one, who knows better, and that is most people, will accept as being of quality and useful. He did less, calls it more, and demands we accept it. The answer: NO!!

[ham]

Quote:If a man truly believes that crap about RA being the only way, why in God's name wouldn't he have at least obtained one good degree rather than all that pointless collection of titles, that no one, who knows better, and that is most people, will accept as being of quality and useful.

standards (=school standards ) are like democracy= they mainly serve to make privilege/short-cuts more desirable.
In other words, strict academic standards are a good umbrella for less-than-wonderful/"barely making it" kind of "schools", much as most cars in the average-to-low segment of purchasing power tend to "just look like" (as much as law allows ) cars in the "upper-to-high" segment.

[Hogwasher]

ham Wrote:standards (=school standards ) are like democracy= they mainly serve to make privilege/short-cuts more desirable.
In other words, strict academic standards are a good umbrella for less-than-wonderful/"barely making it" kind of "schools", much as most cars in the average-to-low segment of purchasing power tend to "just look like" (as much as law allows ) cars in the "upper-to-high" segment.

You really are dumber than a can of Spam aren't you?

[ham]

Quote:You really are dumber than a can of Spam aren't you?

i am sorry that your welfare cheque entitles you only to second rate food stuff. Perhaps you should ask mr. Douglas. He claims to be "rolling high" and to bathe in $350-a-bottle champaigne...I am sure that the dedication and devotion to the DI/DD clique will be worth a few spare cans of foi gras and beluga caviar.

[Randall Flagg]

They talk of $350 bottles of wine and caviar, but they are more familiar with bologna and hot dogs, the cheap kind.

That's the same reason they think TESC and Yale are the same, ignorance.

[Little Arminius]

Randall Flagg Wrote:I accept the Douglas effort to be real, but much less than anything required by a good college. He padded the committee with people who wouldn't require excellence, and did just enough to get by, nothing more.

He would have us believe that what he did is similar to the RA experience at the typical Brick and Mortar University, and that is laughable.

The Harvard process has nothing in common with the Union process at all, though I'm sure he (Douglas) did all he was capable of. Schools like Union must exist, and it's probably a good thing, so that the more limited people have some place to buy their degrees (doctorates) from. He certainly paid a lot of money for a pointless title. I mean no one in the know would accept it as being good enough to be used as a doctorate. Needless to say he'll never teach at Harvard or Yale with that collection of substandard schools. It's almost as if he planned for second best, no, make that third best.

If a man truly believes that crap about RA being the only way, why in God's name wouldn't he have at least obtained one good degree rather than all that pointless collection of titles, that no one, who knows better, and that is most people, will accept as being of quality and useful. He did less, calls it more, and demands we accept it. The answer: NO!!

What about the University of Leicester? It appears that he has some involvement with that institution. 

Quote: The current Rich Douglas signature block as it looks at DD:

Rich Douglas, Ph.D.
Director, Academic Support Services
North American Representative of the Centre for Labour Market Studies
University of Leicester
N.A. Website: http://www.clms.edu