tenuredprof Wrote:Duggle Wrote:tenuredprof Wrote:Dennis Ruhl Wrote: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