Stalker Steve a Deadbeat Too

[Don Dresden]

Reading between the lines is very important.

Yes it is, but Stalker Steve is not trying to make his crap job seem more important by giving it a fancy title.  He's lying about the essential nature of his degree.  It's a stretch to even call a degree in general studies a liberal arts degree.  It's a complete lie to claim a couple of classes for a concentration equals a full degree in that subject.  That is like calling your plow horse a thoroughbred, or your VW a Porsche.  

Admitted stalker, adjudicated deadbeat, now a proven academic fraud.  Funny how these things just fall like dominoes.  The closer you look at the clones, the shabbier the view.

[Little Arminius]

I also noticed Steve is misleading when presenting his credentials on his resume: http://hiresteve.com/cv/ and his signature at Degree Discussion dot com, "B.S., Info. Sys., Charter Oak".
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He states he has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems.

However, there is no such degree at Charter Oak State College.  All of their degrees are Bachelor of Art/Science in General Studies with a Concentration.  This is not, as they say, 'picking nits'.  There is a huge difference between someone who has a real Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems and someone who hodge podged a Bachelor of General Studies degree and put in 1/2 the coursework in "Information Systems Studies" ("Studies" is their term not mine).  The differerence is at least 30 units in Information Systems classes yet he claims the same degree.  He knows he basically has a Liberal Arts degree with a handful of computer classes thrown in and calling it something else to fool people who don't know any better.

Liar ? Fraud ? Disingenius ? Future "KABOOM" ?

You decide.

I would call this disingenuous. All undergraduate degrees* earned from any of the Big (Easy) 3 are essentially hodge podged together. That's a great description of DL general studies degrees which I'm sure that I'll use again. They are great for people without a bachelors degree who have accumulated credits from different schools and programs, military and government training that has been evaluated by ACE and CLEP. It aggregates and validates with a degree one's educational achievements to a point. Some, like Foerster, try to portray it as quite a bit more specialized than really is.

It would probably be more accurate and honest to list it:

B.S., General Studies (Information Systems)  

I won't hold my breath waiting for Steve to change it. Why would a wannabe academic like Foerster have to bother with little details like honesty and accuracy?

* TESC offers structured graduate programs.

[ham]

That's a great description of DL general studies degrees which I'm sure that I'll use again.

I for one have never used the easy 3 (or any school pimped by the clique ) but I am glad DL offers the opportunity to "hodge podge together" a degree to my own requirement.
In fact -to me- it is much like home-schooling compared to traditional schooling...and that is where "freedom in academia" begins...
It might not suit everybody equally at all times, but I personally see no point in trying to meet today's fleeting job market demand with qualifications that will be obsolete or in need of significant retraining by the time young Billy gets his degree...
I used to hire PC technicians with their good technical degree many years ago to do things that for ages I have been doing on my own...and how older technicians (40-50s) at the time related how their qualifications had been subject to significant retraining.